BEng (hons) MSc CEng FIMMM FIMechE FIAgrE MIET MMIMinE
Dom Barraclough is a Chartered Engineer with extensive experience in mechanical, electrical and control systems. He started working nearly four decades ago as a junior fitter on large agricultural machinery and infrastructure. Since then, he has risen through positions in various sectors while gaining extensive management and leadership experience. He obtained three patents in drive systems while in the materials handling industry and then as a drive-train systems designer. Dom has been fortunate to have worked with some great mining professionals over the last sixteen years on various projects, including winder testing and process hazard assessments.
For the last twenty years, he has worked with business angels, private equity and banks to invest in engineering, health and safety businesses that have great people at the centre. He heads a world class team across a group of three interrelated businesses covering engineering, health and safety test, inspection, certification, consulting and forensics services.
Dom has been instructed as an expert witness in nearly two hundred civil personal injury and technical disputes, police and HSE prosecutions and arbitrations. He has given evidence in arbitrations and the High Court. As well as supporting rising stars as a judge for the IET and the FDF and as a professional registration assessor for the IET, he is completing his MBA at Aston University. As Chair of the National Safe Man Riding in Mines (SMIM), he is focused on doing his part in modernising and building mining capability in the UK.