Rainham Mark Grammar School

Fire & Emergency Planning Adviser, and author

Rainham, Kent, United Kingdom

As part of the Audit and Risk Team I am responsible for providing advice and assurance on fire risk at Historic Royal Palaces, the independent charity which manages the Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace, the Banqueting House, Kensington Palace, Kew Palace, and Hillsborough Castle, the official royal residence in Northern Ireland.I take a lead role in emergency planning; developing first response procedures and HRP's Major Incident Plan. I assist with the development and testing of salvage procedures for historic collections and provide advice on business continuity matters.

Historic Royal Palaces

Fire and Emergency Planning Adviser

Established author and conference speaker, with TV and radio experience.Specialist in French Resistance; Special Operations Executive (SOE); Allied military deception; Double Cross System; historical espionage; female spies. Also Napoleonic Wars; French armed forces of the First Republic and Empire.

Freelance

Author

HRP manages five historic palaces in the London area (HM Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace, the Banqueting House (Whitehall), Kensington Palace, and Kew Palace), and Hillsborough Castle, the official residence of the Queen in Northern Ireland. I am responsible for providing professional Fire, Health, Safety and Environment advice to HRP, and leading the Health and Safety Team through a period of restructuring.My principal areas of expertise are fire safety management, emergency planning, business continuity, salvage and damage control, policy and strategy. I also lead on accident investigation and corporate reporting.

Fire, Health & Safety Adviser (Acting)

Based at Hampton Court Palace I take the lead role in managing fire risk at some of Britain's best known historic palaces; undertaking fire risk assessments of historic buildings; developing fire strategies, determining policy and providing an advice service to project managers and designers to enable major exhibitions and public / corporate events to take place within the magnificent and unique settings offered by the palaces. I take a lead role in emergency planning within the organisation, developing contingency plans for a wide range of operational risks; identifying and building partnerships with key stakeholders and driving forward a culture of continual improvement.

Deputy Fire, Health & Safety Adviser

I was responsible for undertaking fire risk assessments in a busy, privately owned hotel group based at Russell Square in London. The portfolio of risks was very broad, with up to 6,000 visitors per night in six hotels, large conferencing capacities, bars, restaurants, large commercial kitchens, underground car parking, retail outlets and a wide range of plant rooms and maintenance workshops. I was also responsible for fire safety at seven staff hostels (each the equivalent of a small hotel in size) and an industrial laundry complex. I was responsible for developing emergency plans and training / testing the incident response teams. I also developed a training programme for a large, ethnically diverse and highly transient workforce. This included the provision of training literature in ten languages and in some cases the addition of translators where literacy was a factor.

Terry Crowdy

Terry Crowdy