Meet The ‘BV A-Team’
Our people are the men and women who get up every day and go to work and carry out a safety function. They contribute to our economy and our society. They’re the ones that build our cities, keep us safe and enable us to return home each night after work.
Our people are Firefighters, Carers, Contractors, Construction Workers, Facilities Managers, Business Owners, Directors, Police Officers, Emergency Medical Professionals, Industrial Manufacturers and the brave members of the British Armed Forces.
Our people are the BV Associates Trainers, Safety Consultants and Learning Advisors, providing the experience, standards and training innovation that you deserve.
BV Associates Ltd – Tried. Tested. Trusted.
We provide high quality health and safety training and consultancy. We don’t try to be anything else.
Find out how BV Associates Ltd can support your aspirations or objectives. Contact us on 01494 864100 to discuss your specific requirements or email us at info@bvassociates.co.uk.
Dean Ferguson
Director
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Even when Dean Ferguson was employed as a Serviceman, he helped his parents run their training company. Initially running errands working up to being the Operations Manager for Unit 9 training, taking it from a local business to a highly respected training delivery company covering the whole South East of the UK. Having served 22 years in the British Army in both EOD Search and training positions, Dean retired at the rank of Major having completed a tour as a HQ Company Commander. His first venture, a Project Management company called ‘The Solution Exchange,’ saw him build a substantial client base, before taking on the challenge to develop all administrative and training aspects of BV Associates.
Dean now heads both the public and private sector company training portfolios. More recently he has spearheaded the development of now highly respected NEBOSH online courses, mapping the NEBOSH certificate courses (NEBOSH NGC, NEBOSH Construction (NC), NEBOSH Environment (EMC), NEBOSH Process Safety (PSM) and NEBOSH Fire Safety (FSC)) across to both NEBOSH virtual and NEBOSH e-learning/distance learning training delivery options.
Dean’s passion remains his commitment to providing advice to service leavers. He has written 2 books and he enjoys working on his classic car and DIY.
Lisa Ferguson
Director
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Our Director of Future Business Strategy is Lisa. Lisa keeps the partnership in check, with one foot on the present and the other on the heels of our competitors. She won the English Heritage Apprentice award before becoming a fully qualified Specialist Painter and Decorator – she has worked on projects with famous interior designers to prestigious construction sites such as Strawberry Hill House, the Albert Hall and St Pancras Hotel.
Lisa knows first-hand the attitudes, ethos, barriers and constraints of working in this sector as an apprentice, woman and contractor. Lisa has completed her NEBOSH courses, has a diploma in Sports Therapy and has just completed a Diploma in Nutrition and Health. She is our go to person for wellbeing and physiology – subjects which span the whole raft of NEBOSH and IOSH courses we deliver.
Lisa enjoys travelling, walking and loves a glass of bubbly and a good wiggle on the dance floor.
Chris Vincent
Director
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Following a full and successful career with the British Army, Chris Vincent retired as an Officer in the Royal Engineers. On leaving, he set up BV Associates as a consultancy and training business with Dean to provide health and safety, project management and security advice to industry.
Between teaching NEBOSH courses Chris leads the safety consultancy team. Highly astute in all things health and safety and a chartered member of IOSH, his recent achievements include the provision of consultancy for Centrica Energy across a number of major power stations and the senior safety consultant to Hitachi Zosen Inova across a number of energy from waste construction projects. He is also a fire safety risk assessor for Portakabin, the UK safety consultant for Hoare Lea and the Children’s Trust. Other roles include the development and implementation of safety, evacuation and security plans for a major banking group; production of an extensive residential safety plan with formal delivery briefing to safety board members for the King Abdullah University in Saudi Arabia; the conduct of large scale training and delivery to numerous European companies entering the UK to work within the Power and Construction Industries.
Outside of work, Chris enjoys cycling, travelling and listen to his music collection.
Nik Taylor
Head of Training Operations
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Our Head of Training Operations, Nik Taylor, left the services as a Warrant Officer Class 1 and he is now a Major and Company Commander with the British Army Reserves.
Dean and Nik have known each other for over 30 years and their working relationship is one of a shared vision when it comes to the training delivery. Nik’s infectious NEBOSH course delivery is legendary. His determination to provide additional support above and beyond what all of the learners expectations is widely respected. This is what makes people come back to us time and time again for their safety training needs. He not only deliverers exceptional training, he builds confidence. Nik has a wealth of experience, is qualified to degree level but has a chartered level working knowledge of everything health and safety.
As a consultant, he makes it his mission to get inside the workings of the company to understand the personality of a business. Nik’s highest accolade is his ability to jump between fire, construction, environment and general training related issues, seeing the bigger picture. He feeds this back into the training delivery and takes every single one of our students on a journey. More recently, having obvious leadership experience, Nik has been approved to deliver the NEBOSH Health and Safety Leadership Excellence certificate.
Claire Carlton
Lead Training Advisor
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Claire Carlton has two hats, she is the Lead Training Advisor during NEBOSH courses and EA to the Directors. She works tirelessly to ensure the students training journey is the best it can be and she is not shy in pointing out the occasional flaws of our Awarding Bodies (and she is rarely wrong!). A consummate professional, she rightly receives constant praise for the administrative support she gives to everyone training with us.
Our learners are made to feel part of the family and Claire shares everyones ups and downs, failures and successes. It is her tenacity that pushes both the students and entire BV associates team on. Claire comes up with innovative ideas and work-arounds within the bounds of the IOSH and NEBOSH accreditations – traits that reinforce and complement the training delivery. She is respected by the whole team for her ability to look at the detail, moreover, argue for the students position both internally and externally. As such, she is dependable, reliable, craves responsibility and her input is respected by every one she has daily contact with.
Many of our students stay in touch with us and let Claire know how they are getting on with their careers. It is often a relationship built on trust, mutual respect and a shared journey. There is little she doesn’t know about the various NEBOSH certificates so call her to discuss your options.
