Increasing Specialization in Pedestrian Safety and Fall Prevention
Following a full career as a broad-based industrial safety engineer and risk management professional, William English has increasingly specialized in the prevention of falling occurrence to pedestrians, including guidelines for constructing safer facilities and consultation in forensic cases where people have been injured by falling, including accident reconstruction and slip resistance measurement.

Other areas of professional practice pursued as a consultant since 1985 have included the following:

Hazard and Loss Analysis
Analysis of loss experience to define and prioritize the vital few accident types that are hurting the health of the client business.

Forensic Safety Engineering Clonsulting
Evaluation of the safety engineering merits of accident cases in plaintiff and defense cases, particularly in slip. trip and fall cases and human factors in industrial safety matters.

Safer Design Criteria for Facilities
Application of proven safety engineering guidelines to facility design standards so as to reduce accident occurrence by not building hazards into facilities intended for use by the general public and by employees..

Architect Training
Implementation of professional training of designers of facilities to enhance their ability to produce safer designs the first time without expensive reworking of plans after safety engineering review. Teaching them to get it right the first time.

Human Factors Engineering and Ergonomics
Configuring capital equipment, particularly control systems, to take into account the capabilities and limitations of human operators, so that safe and efficient production is achievable by the people who actually use the equipment.

Professional Development of Risk Control Staff
Assistance in the development of job descriptions, selection of capable applicants and coaching of such personnel to bring them up to the state of the art quickly through implementation of methods that have been well tested and demonstrated to be effective.