NWS Health and Safety lead recognised in King’s Birthday Honours
Nigel Lister honoured for services to the nuclear industry and contributions in Mountain Rescue
Nigel Lister, Environment Health & Safety Security & Quality (EHSSQ) Director at Nuclear Waste Services and member of Duddon and Furness Mountain Rescue Team, has been awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM) in the King’s Birthday Honours List.
The award was in recognition of his outstanding service to the nuclear industry and to mountain rescue.
A BEM is typically awarded for a recipient’s sustained commitment to their local community or innovative work that has made a major impact – Nigel has qualified on both accounts. Nigel has been a member of the Duddon and Furness rescue team for 28 years and he has worked in the nuclear sector since 1991.
Speaking of his award, he said:
“I’m really surprised and delighted. I’m accepting the honour on behalf of all the like-minded people I’ve worked with in Health and Safety across the sites, and in mountain rescue as well.”
“I’m proud of our safety record at NWS and it’s a real team effort. My role is really to make sure we have competent professionals in place to support and advise the business and to ensure leadership remain focused on safety as a priority. It’s the wider team that then delivers the safety performance and I have been lucky enough to work with some fantastic teams.”
He first joined the nuclear sector as a graduate recruit in health physics at Sellafield in 1991 and his early career was in Radiation Protection and Safety Management on the Sellafield site. In 2022, Nigel was appointed to lead the Environment Health & Safety Security & Quality Directorate at NWS.
NWS is part of the NDA group, which has a mission to safely, securely and sustainably decommission the UK’s oldest nuclear sites, leaving them ready for their next use.
Nigel has also served his community as a member of Duddon and Furness Mountain Rescue Team in Cumbria for the past 28 years, including seven years as Chair up to 2024.