Blackwood Compliance Laboratories is an award winning team of compliance professionals dedicated to providing an effective, efficient and accurate testing service.

The emphasis at Blackwood Labs is very much on customer satisfaction with friendliness ensuring repeat business. We make sure every test session is value for money with our expert advice throughout the process.

We are happy to assist manufacturers and importers in providing free information and advice.

Key Staff

John Davies is the Managing Director and has been involved in product compliance testing since 1990. John is an internationally recognised expert on EMC matters. He represents Blackwood Labs at the EMC Test Laboratories Association, and represents the EMCTLA at BSi in EMC committees GEL 210-11 (test standards) and GEL 210-12 (basic standards). John also represents the UK at the IEC in CISPR Sub-committee I where he is a member of several Working Groups and Task Forces. In particular John has active involvement in the creation of the future multimedia EMC standards, CISPR 32 and CISPR 35. John has written published Interpretation Sheets on the EMC testing of telecoms equipment to EN 55024. He also manages the EMF surveying department.

Steve Richardson manages the Electrical Safety Laboratory and is also a Director of Blackwood Labs. Steve has worked in compliance engineering since 1995 having involvement in various aspects including electrical safety, telecommunication approvals as well as EMC, Steve has played a major role in growing and enhancing Blackwood’s facilities since he joined in 2004. He has travelled the World visiting many other laboratories both as a test engineer and as a representative of manufacturing companies.

Paul Gwilliam is the Principal EMC Engineer and has been involved in EMC testing at Blackwood since 1996. Prior to working in EMC compliance testing Paul spent 8 years designing EMC filters. Paul controls the day to day operations of the EMC laboratory. He also organises our annual golf day, which is our “thank you” to our customers and other colleagues.

Ginnie Marley is the Quality Manager at Blackwood Labs. Ginnie has been involved in laboratory quality issues for both product compliance testing and test equipment calibration since 1998. Ginnie is responsible for ensuring that Blackwood Labs follow the requirements of ISO 17025:2005 – the international quality standard for test and calibration laboratories.

Company awards include:

• CBA 2004 – Company of the Year 2004
• Five Counties Awards 2005 – The Award for Innovation
• CBA 2006 – Business Individual of the Year (John Davies)