Simon Bartlett

Simon Bartlett is the Head of the Fire Section at the UK Ministry of Defence, Naval Authority and technology Group.  He is responsible for fire certification of all ‘MoD Shipping’ and is actively looking at new and emerging technology in naval firefighting, damage control and recoverability. Simon has experience working as an engineering officer in the Royal Navy and was in charge of the MoD’s Naval Fire Trials and Evaluation Unit. After leaving the RN, he worked for the Fire Protection Association, as the Head of their Special Projects Group working on large scales fire trials for the defence and commercials sectors.