Neil Lenehan

Neil is the Environmental, Health and Safety Director at Cairn Homes. He graduated as a Mechanical Engineer and later completed his safety diploma in UCD. He has worked in several engineering and safety leadership roles spanning a career of over 25 years. His experience is across a number of sectors including manufacturing, consulting, power generation, wind, utilities including both gas and water and now construction. Neil has faced some of the most complex and diverse safety challenges and was instrumental in driving changes in safety in the water industry in his role in Uisce Éireann and he has led out on several strategic safety and behavioural safety initiatives which have transformed safety in the industries he has worked in. He was past chair of both the Joint Utility Safety Forum and the Water UK Safety Group and is a current member of various committees, including the Construction Safety Partnership Advisory Committee CSPAC, CIF Safety Committee and the IBEC OSH Policy Committee.