{"id":7070,"date":"2022-08-19T16:40:12","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T16:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawkins.biz\/?post_type=leadership&#038;p=7070"},"modified":"2025-08-22T12:51:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T11:51:14","slug":"nick-carey","status":"publish","type":"leadership","link":"https:\/\/www.hawkins.biz\/our-experts\/nick-carey\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Carey"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7070\" class=\"elementor elementor-7070\" data-elementor-post-type=\"leadership\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3b345405 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-eae-slider=\"25551\" data-id=\"3b345405\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2083fd77\" data-eae-slider=\"48629\" data-id=\"2083fd77\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7001a920 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7001a920\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Nick joined Hawkins in June 2012 after a 27 year career with the London Fire Brigade. During the last 16 years of his fire service career he was a full-time Fire Investigation Officer.<\/p><p>In 2009 Nick was awarded a PhD with the University of Strathclyde for his research into the interaction of fire and electrical circuits and the metallic damage to electrical conductors located within fire scenes titled \u201cDeveloping a reliable systematic analysis for arc fault mapping\u201d.<\/p><p>He has undertaken a number of electrical examinations within the UK. This has included multi-agency teams investigating several firefighter fatality incidents and the investigation into the cause of the Cutty Sark fire in Greenwich.<\/p><p>Nick has investigated a number of electric shock &amp; electrocution incidents and electrical product failures.<\/p><p>He has investigated shipping fire and explosions on behalf of P&amp;I Clubs and cargo interests. He has also investigated a number of fires involving yachts and superyachts overseas.<\/p><p>Nick has provided firefighting advice for shipping incidents on a number of occasions.<\/p><p>He has given evidence as an expert witness at arbitrations, Coroners\u2019, Crown and Civil courts.<\/p><p>He has delivered electrical training to Fire Brigades, Police Forces and Forensic Laboratories and presented at training conferences both within the UK and oversees.<\/p><p>Nick specialises in the investigation fires and explosions in domestic, commercial and industrial premises, yachts, superyachts and shipping losses, providing firefighting advice associated with shipping incidents and the investigation of electrical failures.<\/p><p>Due to Nick&#8217;s extensive experience in fire investigation, he was asked to chair the writing group for the now published judicial primer <a href=\"https:\/\/royalsociety.org\/-\/media\/about-us\/programmes\/science-and-law\/royal-society-fire-investigation-primer-for-courts-digital.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cFire Investigation \u2013 A Primer for Courts.\u201d<\/a><\/p><p>Nick is a Principal Associate based in our Reigate office.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick joined Hawkins in June 2012 after a 27 year career with the London Fire Brigade. During the last 16 years of his fire service career he was a full-time Fire Investigation Officer. In 2009 Nick was awarded a PhD with the University of Strathclyde for his research into the interaction of fire and electrical circuits and the metallic damage to electrical conductors located within fire scenes titled \u201cDeveloping a reliable systematic analysis for arc fault mapping\u201d. He has undertaken a number of electrical examinations within the UK. This has included multi-agency teams investigating several firefighter fatality incidents and the investigation into the cause of the Cutty Sark fire in Greenwich. Nick has investigated a number of electric shock &amp; electrocution incidents and electrical product failures. He has investigated shipping fire and explosions on behalf of P&amp;I Clubs and cargo interests. He has also investigated a number of fires involving yachts and superyachts overseas. Nick has provided firefighting advice for shipping incidents on a number of occasions. He has given evidence as an expert witness at arbitrations, Coroners\u2019, Crown and Civil courts. He has delivered electrical training to Fire Brigades, Police Forces and Forensic Laboratories and presented at training conferences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7071,"parent":0,"template":"","service":[],"location":[43],"management":[],"experties":[65,66,67],"region":[79],"class_list":["post-7070","leadership","type-leadership","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-reigate","experties-engineering","experties-fire-explosions","experties-marine","region-uk-ireland"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nick Carey | Fire &amp; Explosion Investigator, Engineering Expert | Hawkins &amp; Associates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nick Carey specialises in investigating incidents involving fire and explosion across various sectors. as well as engineering failurse.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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