Breakout Session F3: John Harris
Organisation: CompEx
Job Title: Technical Development Manager
Session Title: Hydrogen safety
Date & Time: 27 March 2025 @ 13:00
Bio: John Harris is the Technical Development Manager at CompEx. A time served electrician with experience installing and maintaining EC&I equipment in the Oil & Gas, Steel and Power Generation sectors. John moved into the education and training sector with CompEx’s sister company JTL over 15 years ago training and assessing candidates in Electrical Engineering before taking the roles of Field Officer and EQA in the CompEx team.
John also has extensive experience of working in the Regulated and non-Regulated qualifications sector. Developing National Occupational Standards, Vocational Qualifications, Training Standards and Technical Tests across the whole engineering sector.
John plays a key technical role in chairing and facilitating the development and ongoing review of CompEx’s range of qualifications and services. He also provides subject matter expertise in aspects associated with explosive atmospheres, including knowledge of the relevant technical standards and industry best practice and guidance.
Presentation Summary:
Hydrogen has enormous potential as a fuel: clean, potentially green and energy efficient. However, safe use of hydrogen has long been difficult to ensure - it isn't just like any other fuel. It wasn't such a problem when the group of users was small, technically well-informed, and routinely handled only small quantities. But soon that is likely to change, which means that a far wider community will need to be aware of hydrogen's special properties, the risks which come with them and how to avoid them.