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AE / TECHNICAL / ADVISORY Directory

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TECHNICAL / ADVISORY Directory

Decontamination
Technical / Advisory Platform

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Member Profile

Richard Bancroft BSc (Hons), FRSB, FIHEEM

Discipline: Decontamination

Email: richard_bancroft@steris.com

Telephone: 07774 625 485

Address:
STERIS
Chancery House
Rayns Way
Watermead Business Park
Leicester LE7 1PF

Website: www.steris-healthcare.com

Bio:
Richard Bancroft is Senior Director, Scientific for STERIS. He has over 38 years’ experience in sterilization of medical devices and is an IHEEM Registered Authorising Engineer (Decontamination). He has a BSc Honours Degree in Applied Chemistry and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB). He has leadership positions in CEN and ISO standards committees, as convenor of ISO/TC 198 WG 6 and convenor of CEN/TC 102 WG 7, drafting CEN and ISO standards for over 30 years. He is chair of BSI’s standards committee, CH/198, and serves as ISO Technical Committee (TC) chair of ISO/TC 198 (Sterilization of health care products). He is currently unable to accept Authorising Engineer (Decontamination) work.

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