Jason is a Chartered Fire Engineer with National Security Clearance (SC) and a career that extends to international work gaining extensive fire engineering and fire safety experience providing technical excellence within highly regulated industries, such as Higher risk buildings, Nuclear and transportation.

He is an active member of many fire professional communities, he Chaired the Nuclear Industry Fire Safety Coordination Committee (2017 – 2019), he is also the Chair of the Institution of Fire Engineers (IFE) Special Interest Group for Industrial Fire and Risk, he is a Senior Examiner for the IFE, Ethics committee member and a BSI Committee member for 7974-6.

Assisted government working groups for fire engineering, working group 3 (Fire Engineering) and working group 4 (Fire Risk Assessment) to assit the authorship of competency criteria for fire risk undertaking and fire engineering.

IFE co-member of PAS9980:2021 (and the updated version 2025) Fire risk appraisal and assessment of external wall construction and cladding – Code of practice. A technical Steering Group

BSI – Technical steering group member for means of escape for disabled people

BSI – Technical steering group member for construction technologies, design and usage

Typical work undertaken:

Fire investigation.

Impact assessment – used to provided fire safety understanding to assist problem solving and risk evaluation.

Fire risk assessment (all built environment types).

Fire safety strategies (all built environment types).

Fire engineering first principles.

External wall analysis including the application of PAS9980 methodology.

Fire safety engineering.

Technical notes (used to study a situation or fire safety problem)

Safety case (Higher risk buildings)