Dr. Darren Groombridge

An experienced safety & reliability engineer with expertise in safety assessment and engineering design substantiation in support of safety cases. As a limited company contractor, Darren provides safety & reliability engineering support to clients in high-hazard industries and has proven experience of delivering projects to clients in a range of sectors, including Nuclear (Civil and Defence), Pharmaceutical / Medical, Scientific and Academia.

Furthermore, Darren is a certified Technis Reliability & Functional Safety Engineer and an exida Cybersecurity Practitioner.

Darren’s key capabilities include;

  • Engineering Design Substantiation
  • Functional Safety & Reliability
  • Application of IEC 61508 (and sector-specific derivatives)
  • IACS Cybersecurity Lifecycle
  • Safety assessment and safety case production
  • FMEA / FTA / RBD techniques
  • HAZID / HAZOP / HAZAN studies
  • Model-based design
  • Peer review of design deliverables

As well as working with Wilde on consulting projects, Darren is the tutor for the Functional Safety: IEC 61513 training courses run by Wilde.

Functional Safety: IEC 61513 - Instrumentation & Control for Systems Important to Safety in Nuclear Power Plants >