Director

Risk Consultant, Health & Safety Consultant

I am a Chartered Safety Practitioner with over a decade of experience in both operational and strategic management of safety and health.

I have worked on projects ranging in size and complexity from £5,000 up to £320 million value.

My experience is in supporting both senior leadership teams of multinational corporations (my day job) and in supporting local small business start ups (as a mentor volunteer).

As a former Associate Director for one of the largest consultancy businesses in the world, I understand the need for solid advice and guidance that may be required to defend the position of a company or director in future disputes or legal actions taken.

My experience ranges from taking an organisation with a poor compliance record (including fatalities) to receiving awards for "best in class" within two years.

I can provide specialist knowledge and support for Construction (Design and Management) projects. Usually shortened to CDM, I can support clients and also design houses to discharge their legal duties. I am also able to support principal contractors on site audit and inspection, site set up and document creation.

I am a qualified safety leader, holding extensive experience and qualifications in several areas:

• Health and Safety Management
• Leadership and Management
• Advice and Guidance to Strategic Leaders
• PRINCE2

If you want to be supported in a critical project from the start (proactive) or you need an emergency response / crisis management (reactive) service, I have significant experience in both.

If my experience sounds like I could add value to your business, call for an informal chat:

Experience Better Safety

Director - 1-5 Employees, 2017 - Current

Our vision
To supply professional health and safety information, advice and guidance to business throughout England and Wales.

Our mission
Provide health and safety expert advice and guidance as a trusted business partner to our clients throughout England and Wales.

Our values
Time Cost Quality

We believe in delivering a service on time to support your needs.

We believe in delivering a service to meet your budget requirements.

Our organisation has five key areas:
CDM: Client Advice Principal Design Advice Site Health and Safety
Strategic Safety Services: Board Level Non Executive Director
Bespoke Training: Leadership Safety Management Systems
Competent Person: SME
Coaching and Mentoring: C Managers

Contact us for a confidential chat today.

Bureau Veritas

Associate Director, CDM - 2016

I was an Associate Director of CDM services for one of the largest consultancy organisations in the world. My offices were based in Manchester and Leeds. I supported client duty holders to:
Comply with Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015
Provide assurance during construction phase RIBA stage 5
Provide health and safety file assurance at handover RIBA stage 6

I provided Principal Design Advice to work with Architects, Project Managers and Designers from project conception (RIBA stage 0) to technical design (RIBA stage 4).

Torus

Interim Head of Health, Safety, Environment - 2016

As an interim role, my function was to support a social landlord to develop and implement their strategic vision for Health, Safety and Environment. I completed the following actions:
Applied a Business Partnering system for the safety team
Provided competent advice, guidance and support to the Executive Management Team
Recommended Key Performance Indicators for safety health environment
Designed and delivered a safety management system audit scope against HSG 65
Lead a team of six safety professionals

Mace

Regional Lead, CDM - 2015

Supported external clients such as National Grid on projects relating to gasholder demolition, remediation and unusual features, providing assurance and health and safety file review throughout the construction phase.

Head of Health and Safety Training -

Commercially focused on reducing business risk through a well informed, competent workforce, delivering training and consultancy services, guiding organisations in the implementation of a Management Plan, and supporting pre third party audits.

Qualifications

• Health and Safety - NLP, CBT, Emotional Intelligence; DSEAR; COMAH; OHSAS 18001, ISO 9001; Emergency Action Planning; Business Contingency; Post 16 Education; Risk Assessments; Fire Risk Assessments; Training and Development Analysis; Lead Internal Auditor for Quality Management Systems (IRCA); Management of Lifting Operations; HSG 65 Compliance; Supporting Executive Management to understand roles and responsibilities within safety and health practices; Registered CSSkills Training Professional (Site Safety Plus); SMSTS; CSCS Black Card (Health and Safety Manager); IOSH Managing Safely; NVQ 4 Occupational Safety and Health Practices; NCRQ Diploma Applied Safety and Health
• Industry Related - Construction: APS Principal Designer, IRCA Lead Auditor, CSCS Black Card, SMSTS, First Aid at Work, CDM, UKATA Asbestos Awareness, CDM Awareness, CDM C Roles and responsibilities, biomass and coal fuel transport terminals, refurbishment, D&B; SMSTS Trainer, PTLLS, A1 Assessor, V1 Verifier, Safeguarding, Programme design for QCF Qualifications, Conflict Management for Trainers, Physical Intervention, Mechanical Restraint, Senior Leader - Apprenticeships, foundation learning and VRQ for public sector funding (LSC - SFA - EFA)

Professional Memberships

Chartered Member IOSH (CMIOSH); Member Institute of Leadership and Management (MInstLM)