Mike Forbes has many years of experience of all aspects of emergency response in the oil and gas industry, both offshore and onshore, working closely with many of the North Sea operators, emergency services, medical and helicopter contractors. Mike specialises in training core emergency response personnel and running emergency exercises from short desktops to major mobilisation exercises.

Claire Forbes joined in 2004, having graduated from the University of Aberdeen with an MA in Entrepreneurship. Claire, who worked part-time with Response Consultants while at university assisting with exercise and training course preparation and role-playing in exercises, specialises in the personnel aspects of emergency response including relatives response training and HR/Personnel Coordinator training.

As well as the above personnel, Response Consultants provide the following resources, as required, to participate in emergency response exercises and training courses:

Organisation Role Players
Response Consultants has a pool of associate consultants who simulate the role of non-participating organisations in exercises. These professional consultants have a wealth of experience of working in the oil and gas industry but have different skills including production, safety, personnel and logistics.

Relative Role Players
Response Consultants has its own team of relatives role players to generate telephone enquiries from concerned next of kin during exercises and training courses. Most of the team have over ten year’s experience of regularly participating in clients’ training courses and exercises. The team also provide an ‘on-call’ relatives response service for selected clients.

Media Role Players
Response Consultants utilise freelance journalists in training courses and exercises to simulate telephone enquiries from the media, conduct doorstep interviews and attend press conferences.

Casualties and Evacuees
Response Consultants have a pool of personnel who have experience in simulating casualties and personnel evacuated from offshore in major exercises and evacuation reception training courses.