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MOD veteran joins Baines Simmons as consultant

Air October 27, 2016

Baines Simmons, Air Partner’s aviation safety consultancy division, has appointed MOD veteran Jason Greenslade and Malcolm Rusby as consultants. The pair will be based at Baines Simmons’ Headquarters at Fairoaks airport in Chobham, Surrey.

Mr Greenslade specialises in Availability, Reliability and Maintainability within MOD environments, while Mr Rusby’s focus is on drafting, implementing and assuring standards of Safety Management Systems (SMS) and Fatigue Risk Management (FRM).

Mr Greenslade has worked in safety and airworthiness within the aerospace engineering industry for over 27 years, including 20 years’ experience within the MOD working in a variety of safety management, initial airworthiness and continuing airworthiness roles. Additionally, he worked at Rolls-Royce for three years as a senior engineer and team leader within a safety management and continuing airworthiness capacity.

Mr Rusby has over 20 years’ experience in managing and reducing risk in aviation across airlines and business aviation. Prior to joining Baines Simmons, he held the role of Safety Director at TAG Europe. He was a corporate and air ambulance pilot for most of his aviation career, and also founded the Corporate Aviation Safety Executive (CASE), a project established to improve aviation safety through the collation and monitoring of data and trends in the business aviation community.

Joanne Welland, Practice Director at Baines Simmons, said: “Both Jason and Malcolm are well respected authorities in their fields. I am delighted that we can now add their expertise to our existing capability at Baines Simmons so that our clients can benefit greatly from their experience.”

Caption: Baines Simmons has been awarded a contract to provide consultancy services to BAE Systems with a specific focus on Typhoon aircraft

Mark Lane is a defence writer for defenceonline.co.uk and the MoD’s Defence Contracts Bulletin. He is also editor of Global Trader, sub-editor of Insider Scotland and a former editor of Business Today.

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