The Tutor Team

The tutor team is comprised of Bahraini and UK-based safety professionals with fluency in Arabic, English and Hindi and has particular expertise in delivering:

• Internationally recognised and accredited UK health and safety qualifications
• Development and implementation of Safety Management Systems
• Qualitative and Quantitative Risk Assessments
• Fire Safety Audits
• Health and Safety Audits
• Chemical Safety
• Mining Safety
• Food Safety
• General Occupational Health and Hygiene
• Asbestos
• Noise
• Ergonomics
• Rigging Safety
• Manual Handling
• Security
• Environmental Management

Hasan Alaradi MSc DipSM CMIOSH MIIRSM

Managing Director/Lead H&S Consultant/Tutor

The team is led by RRC Middle East Managing Director, Hasan Alaradi, one of a handful of Bahraini-based IOSH Chartered Safety Practitioners. He has over 25 years of safety management experience in the aluminium and petroleum industries and trained in the UK and USA. Hasan was awarded his MSc in Safety Technology and Risk Management and his Diploma in Safety Management from the UK's prestigious Aston University. He also holds a number of overseas qualifications in fire safety management, oil incident management, accident investigation and radiological safety. He is fluent in Arabic and English.

Sumaya Hassan M Ibrahim BSc

Training Coordinator/Tutor

Before joining RRC Middle East, Sumaya worked for Schlumberger Oil Field Services initially as a QHSE Supervisor and later as an Environmental Specialist/Auditor, working in Sudan, Egypt, Syria and finally Bahrain.

Adel Ali Salman BSc MBA Tech IOSH

H&S Consultant/Tutor

An engineer by training, Adel moved into a safety role with ALBA becoming SHE Superintendent of their Power Generation Group in 2004. He regularly gives lectures on safety issues for RRC and is fluent in Arabic and English.

Hasan Al-Shaikh DipPharm Tech IOSH

H&S Consultant/Tutor

Hasan is an occasional lecturer with RRC ME following his retirement as Head of Safety for ALBA in 2007, having worked for the company for over 30 years. He has a wealth of safety experience and a particular interest in occupational hygiene as a result of his earlier career in pharmaceutical medicine. His occupational hygiene training was gained in the UK and USA between 1982 and 1996 where he studied general occupational hygiene, respiratory protection, ergonomics, noise control, asbestos management, and industrial ventilation.

Haitham Alnoami DipEng Tech IOSH

H&S Consultant/Tutor

Haitham has been part of the RRC tutor team for over two and-a-half years, joining RRC in 2006 from ALBA where he was SHE Co-ordinator. Prior to this he held safety training roles with the Almanar Institute and was Safety Officer for Projects SA, Bahrain. An accomplished trainer, Haitham is fluent in Arabic, English and Hindi and has particular experience in safety management systems and traffic accident investigation.

David Towlson BSc PhD MIOSH

RRC Training Lead Tutor

David trained as an industrial research chemist and spent 7 years with the international giant Courtaulds, first as a research development scientist and later as a safety manager. He joined RRC Training UK as Lead Tutor in 2005, later becoming a Director of the company. He is a regular contributor to the RRC NEBOSH Diploma training and is one of NEBOSH's external examiners for the Diploma.

Jim Phelpstead BSc PhD CMIOSH

H&S Consultant/Tutor

Jim originally trained as a crop plant geneticist before changing career to work in the food industry. He has worked for many years as a health and safety manager in blue chip food manufacturing companies throughout the UK.

John Leigh BSc CEng CMIOSH MIMM MIIRSM

H&S Consultant/Tutor

John started his career in the mining industry and occupied a number of safety-related roles before becoming a safety engineer with British Coal. He has worked in the field of safety for over 25 years, of which he spent the last 15 as a safety consultant and trainer working with both private and public sector organisations.

Malcolm Rimmer BA Dip Health & Safety Dip Acoustics AMIOA

H&S Consultant/Tutor

Malcolm started his career as a local authority sewerage treatment Inspector. Subsequently, he spent 8 years as an Inspector in the construction and manufacturing sectors with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). He now works as a health and safety consultant and trainer, is a registered noise consultant, qualified psychologist and holds a certificate in stress counselling.