1. CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: JOSEPH CHILDS- AMIDE
PROFILE
A safety conscious, self motivated manager with 20 years technical and
management experience, ability to work within a multi-discipline team and having a
strong bias towards safety management within the industrial plant dismantling and
demolition environment.-
CAREER HISTORY
2010-Present Total Reclaims Demolition Ltd
 Estimator/ Safety Officer
2000 – 2010 Bloom Plant Ltd
 Company Safety Officer/ Contracts Manager
 Carrying out site surveys and estimating contracts
1998 – 2000 John J Law Associates
 Demolition Safety Consultant
June 1995 – 1998 Self Employed Site Engineer.
 Part Time Trainer Fuel Gas Cutting
 Site Health & Safety co-ordinator - John J Law
Associates
 Working for local companies preparing and
organising demolition programs.
 Acting as Clerk of Works on demolition projects.
 Carrying out on-site Safety Audits.
 Trainer - Health and Safety in fuel Gas Cutting
course.

2. July 1994 - May 1995 Nottingham Contractors (Demolition) Ltd
Site Agent -
The complete demolition of Castle Cement -Old Works- Stamford, including the
use of explosives, cutting large steel structures, scrap processing foreman.
Responsible for Health and Safety matters for workforce of approximately 40
personnel, including input in risk assessment and method statements.
Compilation of method statements, risk assessment for all hot cutting procedures.
August 1990 - June 1994 NC Scrap Metals Ltd Ilkeston.
Yard Foreman –
o Charge hand responsible for all Yard cutting operations.
o Responsible for all selection, hiring and firing of yard cutting
operatives.
o Responsible for Training and Health and Safety within the scrap
reclamation processes.
o Responsible for several scrap metal dismantling projects away from the
yard environment, including removal of brewery installations, tanks
equipment.
January 1984-1990 ----------Formed BBC Fabrications Ltd
Maintenance Engineers and Producing light steel fabrications, dismantling and
replacing Installations within industrial and Petro Chemical environment.
o Maintenance works on behalf of ESSO tank farm at Colwick
Nottingham.
o Contractors Safety Rep at ESSO site.
1973 - 1983 Joined 23rd Field Ambulance Parachute Regiment.
 Warrant Officer 2.
 Medical Assistant Class 1.
December 1972 - 1973 ICI Runcorn Working on Dismantling and
Replacement Gas Turbine installation

3. COURSES ATTENDED
 ICI
o Confined Spaces Course
o General Site Safety Course
o Project Safety Rep.
 ESSO
o Internal Site Safety Course
o Technical Residential Course
o Senior Residential Course
o Site Safety Management Course
 ARCA
o Asbestos Managemen
 BLOOM PLANT
o Basic Scaffold Inspection
QUALIFICATIONS
Northampton College. City & Guilds Welding
Class 1 Welding Certificate
Abrasive Wheels
Nottingham City Council New Road & Street works Act - Supervisor
North Notts College NEBOSH General Health & Safety Certificate
IDE Associate Member of Demolition Engineers
INTERESTS
Golf.- Past Captain Mapperley Golf Club 1999.