J. R. Thomson

Jim Thomson BSc(Eng), PhD, CEng, FIET, FIMechE, FNucI

Jim Thomson has been a shift manager of a nuclear power station, a university lecturer, a senior manager of a nuclear operating company, and a director of two international safety consultancies. He runs his own company www.safetyinengineering.com where his recent clients have included AMEC, Areva, Invensys, Rolls-Royce, and Ultra Electronics.

He has worked as a consultant in Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Hungary, Germany, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Qatar, Sudan, Romania, UAE, UK and USA. He has worked on nuclear power stations in USA, UK, France, Germany, Finland and Hungary, offshore oil platforms in the North Sea, the Black Sea and the Indian Ocean, and refineries in Europe and Africa.

He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and a Fellow of the Nuclear Institute. He has completed the Advanced Management Programme at Oxford University and the Senior Nuclear Plant Management Program at the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations, Atlanta, Georgia.

He is the author of ‘Engineering Safety Assessment’ (Longman 1987), ‘High Integrity Systems and Safety Management in Hazardous Industries’ (Butterworth-Heinemann 2015), and co-author of ‘Elements of Nuclear Power’ 3rd edition (Longman 1989). He has chaired two international conferences on nuclear engineering matters. He has been a visiting lecturer at Imperial College, Manchester University and Strathclyde University, and he has been a member of the degree accreditation panel for the Institution of Engineering and Technology. He was awarded the 2013 Pinkerton Prize by the Nuclear Institute.

He is married with two grown-up daughters.