NCLOG Lead Forum

This Lead Forum is a half-day event hosted by the National Contaminated Land Officers Group (NCLOG). The first session of the day will provide an introduction to lead and its health impacts, including exposure in children. The second session will look at dealing with lead through planning and Part 2A, hearing case studies from across the UK. Finally the event will conclude with a panel discussion with all speakers.

The National Contaminated Land Officers Group (NCLOG) is part of the IES. All local authority officers working in contaminated land can join NCLOG for free. If you would like to join please contact the NCLOG Coordinator Ellie Savage (ellie@the-ies.org).

Our speakers

Sarah Dack, UKHSA: Lead – still a risk to public health

Sarah has over 30 years experience in the contaminated land and risk assessment industry and has spent the last 12 years working for UKHSA.  Since joining UKHSA, she has been heavily involved in cases of lead in children and adults, after a death of a child from lead poisoning in Yorkshire.  Although lead cases may not seem very related to contaminated land, they often need a deep dive to identify the source(s) of exposure, not dissimilar to putting together a CSM, and trying to collate all relevant contaminant linkages.  Sarah is a chartered geologist and has carried out risk assessments for industry and government (e.g. EU, World Bank and EA) and has latterly been involved with EU and UK research via NIHR or the EU COST Action.

David Dyson, AECOM: BARGE bioaccessibility testing for lead risk assessment

David works as a technical director in AECOM's land contamination team.  He is a Chartered Geologist and Accredited SoBRA Human Health Risk Assessor, and this year he has taken on the role of vice chair on SoBRA's executive committee.  Outside SoBRA, David is part of the steering committee of the North-east Thames Contaminated Land Forum (CLF:NET).   David has worked on Part 2A projects throughout his career, including detailed lead human health risk assessments from the early SEGH model used to derive the 2002 SGV through to the current approach which utilises CLEA exposure modelling based on an index dose derived with the IEUBK model.  These risk assessments, have included detailed consideration of lead bioaccessibility/ relative bioavailability using PBET, SBET and BARGE testing methods.

More speaker details and agenda coming soon

Header image: Removing Lead Paint on Window @Jamie Hooper via Adobe Stock