Bill Brassington is an independent safety and security consultant in the freight supply chain with nearly 20 years’ experience in container industry. Bill joined P & O Containers as the global maintenance manager which enabled him to gain detailed knowledge of the strengths and weakness of the freight container. He then joined GE SeaCo Services, one of the largest leasing company in the world as their Engineering and Technical Services Manager which allowed him to extend his knowledge into the design of all container types. While at GE SeaCo Bill spent considerable time in container manufacturing facilities developing new designs and improving components as well as undertaking thorough testing of new and existing container models.
As part of his work Bill has always played an active role in health and safety issues and as a consequence of which become an active member of the International Organisation for Standardisation’s Technical Committee 104 (freight containers) and is a past Chairman of the Sub-committee responsible for special containers (SC2). He has played an important role in developing many standards including IS 6346, IS 9897 (SC4) as well as the structural and testing standards in SC1 including IS 1496 Specification and testing of freight containers, IS 1161 Freight Containers: Corner Fittings and IS 3874 Freight Containers: Handling and Securing.
Bill has a detailed knowledge of container safety and has participated in, and presented, seminars on many container safety related issues.
For the last 15 years Bill has provided consultancy to the container industry and has developed his skills to cover not only the safety and security of the container, but also has been heavily involved with cargoes carried. He is the author of the research study “Safety in the supply chain in relation to packing of containers” published by the International Labour Organisation (2011) and was the consultant editor of the “Code of practice for packing cargo transport units (CTU Code)”for the International Maritime Organisation, International Labour Organisation and United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.
Bill has been a member of the ICHCA Technical Panel for over 20 years and has authored a number of their briefing pamphlets, including Container terminal safety, the Safe Handling of Tank Containers and the safe handling of platforms and flatracks. He continues to work on improving the safety culture within the terminal industry.
After two terms as vice chair to the Technical Panel he was elected to the position of Chair and since then has played a very active role in the management of the Panel and attended and contributed to the ICHCA Board meetings. As the Chair of the Technical Panel Bill’s role is to work alongside the ICHCA Secretariat in the planning of events and plays an important part in many of the activities, including the Dangerous Goods Working Group.
Bill continues to play an active part in container and transport supply chain safety and security providing independent investigation in cause analysis of incidents and will continue to strive to improve safety, reduce risk, educate and inform to and for those involved in the freight supply chain.
He also attends the International Maritime Organisation’s Carriage of Cargos and Containers Sub Committee as an NGO technical expert representing the ISO and regularly participates in working groups involved with container safety and security including container inspection. One of the corner stones of container safety is the International Convention for Safe Containers (CSC) and Bill has been part of the intersessional and working groups dealing with the maintenance of the Convention.
Bill has a detailed knowledge of container safety and has participated in, and presented, seminars on many container safety related issues.
For the last twelve years Bill has provided consultancy to the container industry and has developed his skills to cover not only the safety and security of the container, but also has been heavily involved with cargoes carried.
- He is the author of the research study “Safety in the supply chain in relation to packing of containers” published by the International Labour Organisation (2011).
- He was the consultant editor of the “Code of practice for packing cargo transport units (CTU Code)”for the International Maritime Organisation, International Labour Organisation and United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. He continues to act as a consultant to the UN ECE Inland Transport Committee in the informal group of experts in the revision of the CTU Code.
- Currently working with the UN ECE on a revision to the CTU Code.
As a consequence of the work that Bill has undertaken for the CTU Code, his scope of standardisation now moves towards securing of containers on container and other vessels, securing of road vehicles in Ro/Ro Vessels and fire suppression systems in vessels, particularly container ships.
Bill has provided successful Expert assistance to a number of cases in Europe and North America involving packing of containers and fires in containers.
Bill continues to play an active part in container and transport supply chain safety and security providing independent investigation in cause analysis of incidents and will continue to strive to improve safety, reduce risk, educate and inform to and for those involved in the freight supply chain.
