EEMUA announces new Chair of Council

04/07/2019

The Engineering Equipment and Materials Users Association (EEMUA) has announced that Stuart Turner has been appointed Chair of the EEMUA Council, taking over from John Whitfield, who remains as Chair of the EEMUA Board.

Stuart is Lead Engineer – pressure systems safety regulations (PSSR) at BOC UK & Ireland and has been a Non-Executive Director of EEMUA since 2014. His involvement with EEMUA started in 2012; when working for SSE he took the EEMUA 159 TankAssessor™ course. Quickly recognising the breadth and depth of the EEMUA offering and the organisational benefits that membership can bring, Stuart was instrumental in persuading SSE to join EEMUA. Similarly, he joined BOC UK & Ireland in 2017 and they became a member in early 2018.

Over the past seven years Stuart has been an active member of the EEMUA User Inspectorates, the Storage Tanks Committee, the Inspection Committee and a number of working groups, including those undertaking the rewrite of EEMUA 159 Edition 4 and development of the new standard on plastic tanks (EEMUA 225).

In his Non-Executive Director role, Stuart has particularly focused on projects and training, helping to implement initiatives around EEMUA’s training offering. These include alignment with ISO 17024 and the development of a new training structure according to which the Competence and Training Board (CTB) is now responsible for quality assurance of EEMUA’s training activities. Stuart currently sits as chair of the CTB and has helped oversee the development of EEMUA’s eLearning and blended learning initiatives.

On becoming Chair of the EEMUA Council, Stuart said: “This is a huge honour and I look forward to working with member companies to ensure that EEMUA goes from strength to strength and remains flexible to the requirements of industry, member organisations and regulators alike.

“EEMUA membership has brought me significant personal and professional development and I would encourage all employees of member companies to ensure that they are aware of the huge array of benefits available to them through engaging with EEMUA.”

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