Our team

Greenstreet Berman Directors

Greenstreet Berman is owned and operated by our directors, each with considerable expertise and experience in their respective fields. We are proud that our directors are heavily involved in the technical delivery of project work across our broad range of services.

Michael Wright
Director

BSc, MSc, C.ErgHF, AFBPsS, CMIOSH

Michael is a Director of Greenstreet Berman Ltd with over 30 years’ experience and leads our a) research, evaluation and communications portfolio of work, mainly for government agencies and regulators, covering promotional, regulatory, risk management and communications issues, and b) safety culture assessment and behaviour change work for high hazard organisations and public safety promotion agencies and charities.

Ben McCaulder
Director

BSc, MSc, MErgS

Ben leads our nuclear Human Factors work. He has extensive experience across a broad range of high-hazard industries, particularly nuclear. Ben has experience working in and managing multi-disciplined engineering programmes in relation to design and development and safety assurance, as well as inspection and regulation within the nuclear industry.

Jon Berman
Technical Director

BSc., MSc., C.ErgHF., C. Psychol., FIEHF, AFBPsS, Eur.Erg.

Jon has over 40 years’ professional experience applying Human Factors solutions to the management of the human contribution to risk, both in high-hazard and other industries (nuclear, rail, aviation, oil and gas, emergency services, utilities, healthcare, pharmaceuticals), spanning industrial organisations, government agencies and regulators.

IChemE Hutchison Medal 2006
CIEHF Institute Lecture and Medal 2014
CIEHF Otto Edholm Award 2017

Key client managers

Our key client managers offer an expert point of contact, both internally and externally facing to ensure we offer our clients best practice guidance, evidence-based research, validated and empirical methodologies as well as innovative practical solutions.

David Pennie
Principal Consultant and Rail Key Sector Manager

MSc, BSc (Hons), C.ErgHF, MIEHF, TAP Cert.

David is a Chartered Ergonomist and Human Factors Specialist with 15 years’ applied experience particularly within the rail, nuclear and defence sectors. David has applied a range of HF techniques and activities, such as developing HF assessment criteria; data gathering; conducting scenario-based exercises (using prototypes and mock-ups), requirements capture; usability assessments; task analysis (HTA, link analysis) and Human Reliability Assessment (Using HEART and THERP to derive human error probabilities. David has extensive experience of providing HF support to the development of Safety Cases, particularly the identification, assessment and substantiation of Human Based Safety Claims (HBSC), as well as participating in HAZOP, as well as optioneering and ALARP meetings.

Rebecca Canham
Principal Consultant and Non-Technical Skills Training Key Service Manager

MSc, BSc (Hons), CPsychol, TAP Cert.

Rebecca is a Chartered Health Psychologist with the British Psychological Society, registered with the HCPC and accredited (TAP Cert.) Practitioner. Rebecca oversees the company’s training portfolio and has almost 10 years’ experience of consultancy, training and research spanning defence, nuclear, rail, healthcare and utilities sectors. Her core areas of work include Non-Technical Skills, Safety Culture, competence assessment and behaviour change with respect to corporate and/or public safety and well-being behaviours. Rebecca is Greenstreet Berman’s course co-ordinator for the Energy Institute’s five-day Human Factors Foundation course (accredited by the CIEHF).

Shona Watson
Principal Consultant and Key Client Manager

MSc, BSc (Hons), TAP Cert.

Shona has 11 years’ experience in the field of Human Factors in safety critical and major hazard sectors, including nuclear, power generation, defence, and emergency services. She is a Key Client Manager for one of our longest standing clients in the nuclear industry, overseeing the management and delivery of the wide range of projects we are currently undertaking; this includes Human Factors support to a number of Facility Periodic Safety Reviews and safety case assurance activities. Shona specialises in risk-based competence management, development and assessment; organisational and behavioural change; compliance management and assurance; safety culture assessment and attitudinal assessment; and Human Factors assessment and analyses.

Dr Ludmila Musalova
Senior Consultant and Research and Development Key Service Manager

PhD, MSc, BSc (Hons), BA, CPsychol, MABP, TUA & TUP Cert., TAP Cert., Cert. Coach

Ludmila is a Chartered Psychologist, certified coach and principal practitioner of the Association of Business Psychologists. She has 10 years’ experience deriving from consulting, training and research in the field of Occupational Psychology. Ludmila oversees our Research and Evaluation portfolio and possesses experience in a range of research methodologies, literature reviews techniques, programme evaluations and an array of analytic and diagnostic tools. Her key areas of work include competence assessment, stress management and well-being interventions, design and facilitation of Non-Technical Skills training (Crew Resource Management, CRM), management of employee engagement programmes, design of leadership development and coaching programmes, Safety Culture assessments, and organisational change management.

Emma Ridsdale
Principal Consultant and Key Client Manager

MSc, BSc (Hons), C.ErgHF

Emma is a Chartered Ergonomist & Human Factors specialist with ten years’ experience of applying Human Factors in the nuclear industry. She has developed her career working in risk management consultancies on a range of UK nuclear licensed sites, including power generation, decommissioning, radiological waste management, defence and commercial sites. Emma has conducted Human Factors assessments and provided advice across the design and safety case lifecycle supporting: the new design of analytical, fuel handling and fuel processing facilities, reviewing continued operations and modifications, supporting decommissioning operations, as well as conducting periodic reviews of safety.

Alice McDougall
Senior Consultant and Defence Key Sector Manager

MSc, BSc (Hons), C.ErgHF, MCIEHF, TAP Cert.

Alice is a Chartered Human Factors and Ergonomics Specialist. Alice has acted as technical lead for numerous Human Factors and research projects within safety critical industries including defence, rail, aviation and nuclear domains. Alice’s experience includes developing Human Factors Integration approaches, informing design and development to improve operability, and providing review and substantiation of human performance. Alice’s research projects have included evaluation of novel technologies, human performance and sociotechnical systems to inform technology implementation, optioneering and review enablers and barriers to change. Alice also has experience of developing Human Factors training for healthcare and nuclear clients.

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Ewan Povall
Senior Consultant

MSc, BSc (Hons)

Qualified in applied psychology, after spending four years working in a developing nuclear utility and supporting a Generic Design Assessment (GDA) through all four stages, Ewan has gained a strong understanding of how to apply Human Factors across a number of disciplines in a highly regulated industry. Ewan has worked on a wide variety of design and analysis projects within the GDA and a nuclear organisation which has given him a great breadth and depth of experience. Ewan’s core areas of work include design support, nuclear and new build, verification and validation, anthropometrics, safety culture, procedure design, plant layout, regulatory interface, safety case support and Human Factors integration.

Bruntha Pirapakaran
Consultant

MSc, BSc (Hons), TAP Cert.

Bruntha has five years’ professional experience in consultancy, qualifying in Organisational Psychology. She has developed expertise in Safety Culture, Research and Evaluation, and Human Factors, working across nuclear, defence and rail sectors. She has supported nuclear design projects, through undertaking task analyses and Human Factors assessments to inform design improvements to maximise human performance and minimise human error. She has utilised a multi-method approach to assess the safety culture of organisations within rail and defence sectors. She has developed and delivered training in safety culture, soft skills and Human Factors. Bruntha has also supported our Research and Evaluation work by undertaking accident analysis and literature reviews of suicide prevention interventions.

Lorna Brock
Consultant

MSc, BA(Hons), TAP Cert. Graduate Member of CIEHF

Lorna joined Greenstreet Berman in January 2019 as a Junior Consultant, having gained a Master’s in Human Factors with the University of Derby the previous year. Lorna is supporting design projects within the nuclear sector, notably Human Factors support to initial design and development, and safety culture projects utilising research methods such as literature reviews, data analysis and critical review. Lorna is currently a Graduate Member of the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (CIEHF).

Samuel Opiah
Junior Consultant

BSc (Hons), TAP Cert.

Samuel has five years’ professional experience and is qualified in psychology. Samuel started his career supporting mental health research prior to joining Greenstreet Berman. Since joining us he has worked on mental health, stress, leadership, safety culture, accident analysis, major accident risk profiling and emergency response readiness. He has a developing interest in supporting the improvement of human and organisational performance through the application of psychological and Human Factors techniques, and has supported work in the energy, rail, emergency response and other sectors.

Business support team

Trevor Stockwell
Systems & Project Support Manager

Member of Chartered Management Institute

Trevor’s primary role is to provide IT and Quality Assurance support across projects and internal development of systems, policies and processes. Trevor leads and conducts all internal quality audits and communicates ISO 9001:2015 requirements and associated practices. He also provides support in production of reports, such as proof reading, quality control, formatting and branding of documents.

Shirin Miah
Finance Manager

BA (Hons), CIMA Part-Qualified, QBE (Qualified by Experience)

Shirin has over 20 years’ experience in accounting across various organisations. She is our finance manager responsible for all finance related matters including monitoring of day-to-day financial operations within the company, reviewing financial data and preparing monthly and annual reports, tracking the company’s financial status and performance to identify areas for potential improvement; and establishing and maintaining financial policies and procedures for the company.

Debbie Sucksmith
Business Administrator

Debbie has over 30 years’ experience as a PA for large corporate organisations. Debbie now looks after business administration at Greenstreet Berman. She provides administrative support on various projects and internal operations, primarily covering Human Resources, Facilities and Health & Safety aspects. In addition to support with Marketing, Quality Management and IT.