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Andrew O’Neill

Regulatory Specialist

Cork, Ireland

Regulatory Compliance Specialist in the Global Regulatory Compliance team at Compliance and Risks.

 

Andrew is an expert in Wireless, Batteries, Low Voltage, and EMC. He has over ten years of experience in enforcing regulations. 

 

Andrew has a Masters of Business (Business Management) from the Irish Management Institute and a Bachelor of Science (Physics) from the Dublin Institute of Technology. He also obtained diplomas in Electronics from Colaiste Ide and Psychology from Colaiste Eoin. 

 

Andrew has extensive experience in a number of regulations as he was a Radio Engineer with the Communications Regulator in Ireland, a Product Safety manager with the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission in Ireland, and a legal metrology inspector with the National Standards Authority of Ireland. 

 

Regulations Andrew has extensive regulatory experience in: 

 

Radio Equipment  

Low Voltage  

Electromagnetic Compatibility 

Toy Safety Regulations  

Gas Appliances 

Personal Protective Equipment 

General Product Safety 

Non-Automatic weighing machines 

Automatic weighing machines 

Market Surveillance 

 

Andrew has conducted inspections and investigations under all of these regulations via the market surveillance regulations and the inspector powers associated with each piece of legislation mentioned above.

Expert Topics

  • Batteries
  • Electromagnetic Compatibility
  • Low Voltage
  • Wireless
Andrew O’Neill
Experience Highlights
  • Preventing over 100,000 non compliant  Personal Protective Equipment Entering the EU market.
  • Destroying over 3000 Kg of dangerous toys that where to be sold on the Irish market 
  • Leading teams on special events like St Patrick’s day, Music Concerts and Sporting Events to ensure no Radio interference was present 
  • Locating and preventing radio interference to Aircraft and Emergency services within a 12 hour time limit
  • Obtaining Warrants for access to unlicensed radio stations (Pirate Radio) and executing them with local law enforcement. 
  • Speaking at Rapex Safety Gate meetings on Market Surveillance in Ireland 
  • Speaking at the Low Voltage Electrical Committee in relation to domestic kitchen appliances 
  • Attending  Training in Paris on TRP and TIS testing methods 
  • Designing and Building EMC test Chambers 
Qualifications
  • BSc Physics (Dublin Institute of Technology)
  • MBA Business Management (Irish Management Institute)
  • Diploma Psychology 
  • Diploma Electronics

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