Steven Manchester is the Director of Fire Safety at BRE, specialising in fire safety engineering, fire risk assessment and industrial fire and explosion hazards.
Steven serves as expert witness in a wide range of criminal and civil court cases. Recent examples include fires in waste recycling facilities, a boatyard and a restaurant, the spontaneous ignition of compost, dust explosion incidents and a number of legal cases for compliance with ATEX/DSEAR. Steven joined BRE as a researcher in 1989, becoming manager of the explosion business in 1997, Business Group Manager in 2006 and now Director for the Fire Safety Group.