Elspeth Yarrow, Associate HSE Advisor

 •  Academic background is degrees in law and geography at Edinburgh University
 •  After  university spent about 9 months doing conservation work for a voluntary organisation 
    in Aberdeen
 •  Joined Subsea 7 in April 2004, when I was 22, working as an Associate Environmental
    Adviser
 •  Sponsored  through Environmental Auditing course and NEBOSH Certificate by Subsea 7  
    over the last two years and undergone most internal safety courses.
 •  Currently  on assignment to Grimstad,  Norway for  12 months and working as HSEQ advisor
 •  Organising  NEBOSH Diploma course, also to be sponsored by the company
 
I don’t know where I’m going to be location wise, even within the company, in the future, which to me is a pretty good thing because mapping out my future really isn’t something I like to do too far in advance. I’m happy in this department but am branching out into Health and Safety to add to my Environmental discipline so that I have more possibilities for the future. I am very glad that I can undergo my professional training with support from the company and very happy that there is a good range of work and possibilities within this department which makes it an interesting job

Mhairi Simpson

•  Master of Arts Graduate - Glasgow University
•  Worked for 6 years in Fertilizer Manufacturing - Research / Development / HSEQ Focal
   Point /  Production Management
•  Started with S7 in 2001 as Quality Graduate - Worked in Corporate Quality for 6 months
   including posting to Houston office for 2 months. Project QA role since 2002 - Sycamore
   Bundle Project (Assistant QA), QA Advisor on CNR Nininian / Talisman Ross - Pipelay
   Projects, Talisman Hannay - Tie In Spools Fabrication and Installation Project, Chevron Texaco
   AXS-2 Manifold Project, BP Farragon Bundle Project. Now working as QA Advisor on
   Shell ISSC project.
•  QA role involves frequent visits to vendors / subcontractors dotted around the UK and
   In Europe
•  Lots of training – Internal / Lead Auditor, Safety Management, Tap Root Investigation,
•  Future – Who knows!!! Off to Brazil next week to participate in a corporate diagonal slice audit
   on the Roncador project. Hoping to get into the West African projects in the near future.