A director of Nuclear Waste Services has been recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours.
Nigel Lister, environment health & safety security & quality director at Nuclear Waste Services, was awarded a British Empire Medal.
Mr Lister, who is also a member of Duddon and Furness Mountain Rescue Team, was given the BEM in recognition of his outstanding service to the nuclear industry and to mountain rescue.
He has volunteered for Duddon and Furness rescue team for 28 years and he has worked in the nuclear sector since 1991.
He said: “I’m really surprised and delighted. I’m accepting the honour on behalf of all the like-minded people I’ve worked with in health and safety across the sites, and in mountain rescue as well.
“I’m proud of our safety record at NWS and it’s a real team effort.
“My role is really to make sure we have competent professionals in place to support and advise the business and to ensure leadership remain focused on safety as a priority. It’s the wider team that then delivers the safety performance and I have been lucky enough to work with some fantastic teams.”
He first joined the nuclear sector as a graduate recruit in health physics at Sellafield in 1991 and his early career was in radiation protection and safety management on the Sellafield site. In 2022, he was appointed to lead the environment health & safety security & quality directorate at NWS.
NWS is part of the NDA group, which has a mission to decommission the UK’s oldest nuclear sites, leaving them ready for their next use.
Mr Lister has also served his community as a member of Duddon and Furness Mountain Rescue Team in Cumbria for 28 years, including seven years as chair up to 2024.
He was among several Cumbrians to be recognised in the birthday honours, including Windermere entrepreneur James Batchelor.
