Richard Maguire

Richard is an engineering consultant specialising in the provision of System, Software, Safety and Environmental Assurance Cases; Security Accreditation Document Sets; Independent Safety Auditing (ISA); Lecturing; Air System analyses and Safety management systems.

Chartered in 1997, he has 20 years direct system engineering experience in Unmanned Air Systems (UAS), WOME, Land-systems and civilian domains including;- software safety cases (under the MRP, DO178B/C, IEC61508 and 00:055); chairing SQEP working groups and panels for Gateway Reviews, producing RMADS and SyOPs; HAZOPs & HAZIDs; acting as ISA (for 00:056, POSMS, POEMS and RTCA DO-254 & DO178B/C projects); constructing e-CASSANDRA hazard logs; and, the use of multiple risk analysis techniques such as Goal Structuring (Adelard ASCE & GSN-App), Fault-tree Analysis, FMECA, QRA, ALARP arguments and Hierarchical Task Analysis.

Richard is cognisant with many of the UK defence, civilian safety and environment standards including 00:056, 00:055, MRP, DSA Policies & Regulations, legacy JSP series, IEC 61508, and a raft of safety, security and environmental legislative requirements.

Richard’s in-depth knowledge and experience has developed from three employment fields – firstly designing, modelling and stress-testing prototype safety systems for the auto industry. Then he worked on post-accident and predictive stress analysis and computational fluid dynamics modelling for on-shore and off-shore oil, gas and fire protection pipework systems, including site inspections. For the last 16 years he has acted as a safety, environmental and audit consultant working on a variety of domain systems in the Defence sector (Air, Sea and Land) on electronics, communications and software-related projects.

Richard also has teaching experience from his previous positions as a part-time Teaching Fellow at University of York, lecturing on their prominent MSc System Safety course. As well as a guest lecturer at London University.

Richard has presented several technical papers on his core working areas in the UK, Europe and the USA. His first specialist technical book titled “Safety Cases and Safety Reports – Meaning, Motivation and Management” was published in 2006.