Ed Stutt, MSc, CEnv, FRSC is a Principal Consultant at wca with 30 years’ experience as an environmental scientist working in academia and consultancy. His areas of expertise include the fate and transport of chemicals in the environment, contaminated land, human health risk assessment and modelling environmental and occupational exposure. Ed has extensive experience in chemical risk assessment and in his time at wca he has been lead consultant for several industrial sectors, undertaking site visits and reviewing operational conditions and environmental emissions to develop exposure scenarios and undertake quantitative risk assessment.
Over the last decade Ed has managed framework agreements with the Environment Agency and European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), leading on many pieces of work including industrial sector analysis, evaluating risks from endocrine disrupting chemicals and developing occupational exposure levels (OELs). He has also undertaken environmental and health impact assessments for socio-economic analysis in relation to Authorisation and Restriction under REACH for European and UK regulators. Ed was a member of the project teams that developed the Category 4 Screening Levels and Soil Screening Values for risk assessment of contaminated land in the UK.
Prior to joining wca Ed spent four years at SLR Consulting where he was primarily engaged in contaminated land risk assessment, working on sites impacted by petroleum hydrocarbons and heavy metals. In addition to undertaking assignments for local government and the private sector he contributed to several items of national technical guidance on human health and ecological risk assessment. Ed also worked for 6 years as a senior scientific officer and project manager at the Medical Research Council’s Institute for Environment and Health (IEH) and delivered projects for the Environment Agency, Defra and Food Standards Agency.
Ed has a BSc in Chemistry and an MSc in Environmental Biogeochemistry and has held research positions at Plymouth Marine Laboratory and with the University of Plymouth’s Petroleum and Environmental Geochemistry Group.
