Andy Farrall

Andy Farrall  FIIRSM  CMIOSH  MIIAI  MIoL is a chartered safety management consultant and accident investigator with over 16 years’ experience.  He is accredited with the UK Occupational Safety and Health Consultants’ Register (OSHCR) and holds numerous professional memberships and qualifications.

His professional experience is wide ranging and international, but of particular relevance is his emergency services background. He spent 12 years in the NHS ambulance service – both as part of an emergency crew and as a control room officer – and twice received a Chief Officer’s Commendation for his work at serious road traffic collisions.

During this time, he was called upon to deal with literally thousands of emergencies. Many of them were routine (or as routine as any medical emergency can be), but some of them involved complex, potentially life-threatening, dynamic situations which required tactical coordination with other services.

Overall, his experience and skills developed during his ambulance career were such that he was later invited by the Irish National Ambulance Service College to write and present a series of courses on critical decision-making for their officers and paramedics.

And in 2022 he was invited to speak at the “IXth International Scientific and Practical Conference on Health & Safety” – an international online conference for the Ukraine government which was hosted from Warsaw. His chosen topic for that conference was “Critical thinking: decision making in times of crisis”.

He has partnered with IPI Academy to develop, and then present, a series of one-day webinars specifically for the pharmaceutical sector on topics such as managing human error; crisis management; and H&S leadership.