Summary

I am a Health and Safety Consultant delivering Health and Safety support and Advice to Business’s when they need it. With my experience to date, of working at all levels within many different industries, I offer a solutions based approach to help business’s comply with health and safety.

I have a proven track record of over 20 years’ experience in health and safety and spending the last 13 years in Consultancy.
I have joined red24assist, Global Crisis Management Company as I Health and Safety Specialist.
I am a Chartered Member of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (CMIOSH)

Expertise


Key skills, experience and expertise:
• Wide Range of health and safety technical knowledge and experience
• Analysing client needs and delivering on the product and service appropriate to the business type.
• Understanding the key issues for the business and provide simple solutions.
• Coaching and training owners/managers and ‘responsible persons’ to take action on significant health and safety issues.
• Building rapport with key personnel to enable smooth and effective change.

Products and Services Include:

Working in partnership to help you manage the health and safety risks to your business including:

Health and Safety Audits - what are the significant risks in your business?
Action Planning - tick off what you are doing well, plan for your areas of significant risk?
Policy Documents - relevant to your business.
Risk Assessments - where do I start?
Monitor and Review – how do I know that it is working?

I listen, ask questions, and suggest practical solutions to add value to your business. We strip away the unnecessary clutter and provide you with a system of continuous improvement. Adding benefits to your business such as:

Better management and employee relations
Involvement from your staff and key people, increased morale
Improved production and performance
Improved relative financial performance
Fully in control of your risk performance
Improved opportunities to win tenders and contracts

We work with you; look at the positives in your business, what works well for you, so as to further reduce the risks to your people and your business for continued growth and sustainability.



Experience

  • Ozroks Health and Safety

    Principal Consultant
    2008 - Current
    Working within the family manufacturing business as a Health and Safety Advisor in addition to working for another consultancy in 2010. From here I still continue to do project work for the family business in addition to running my own Client Base and outsource my services to a large group of Solicitors.
  • RBS Mentor Health and Safety Services

    Managing Consultant
    100+ Employees 2007 - 2008
    Responsible for a Team of 12 Health and Safety Consultants for the Birmingham and southern areas. Ensuring the Team met Client targets, Appraisal targets, Competence targets and financial targets. I also worked on Projects for the RBS such as recruitment days for Bank Managers.
  • RBS Mentor Health and Safert Services

    Health and Safety Consultant
    2001 - 2007
    Working as a Consultant throughout the UK to help a wide range of various industry clients with their health and safety responsibilities. Carrying out health and safety Audits, producing Policy Documents to suit and carrying out training on Risk Assessments, Manual Handling and IOSH Working Safely. Also carried out 1:1 training with clients and on site training. Carried out Fire Risk Assessments on client sites and RBS Bank sites from June 2005. Due to the various industry types this role encouraged research on so many areas of health and safety.
  • GMBU

    Health and Safety Advisor
    100+ Employees 2000 - 2000
    Reviewed all the Policy, Procedures and Risk Assessments, for the GMBU and its premises on a Free Lance Basis. This was to continue into the new year but I got a new job with the RBS.
  • Museum of Science and Industry

    Health and Safety Advisor
    100+ Employees 1998 - 2000
    Responsible for the health and safety of all staff, visitors and contractors for the site. As this was a new role for the Museum, it was my remit to introduce and implement a health and safety system across the site. As part of this I introduced a training plan to include Management training, Fire Safety, Risk Assessment and Manual Handling training. During my time at the Museum, I was involved in major construction project which was to add to the existing site and refurbishment of existing structures. Handled the day to day issues of ensuring existing exhibitions were performing safely, assessing the safety of new exhibitions and floor plans in addition to the safety of staff whilst carrying out their duties including Volunteers.
  • Barton Grange Garden Centre

    Health and Safety Advisor
    21 - 100 Employees 1998 - 2013
    Health and Safety Advisor to three large and busy garden centres. Introduced and implemented a health and safety system and programme of training across all three sites, working with Managers and Staff. This was a short term contract.

Education History

  • Nottingham And Trent University Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety

    MANCAT
    1995 - 1997

Qualifications

NLP Practitioner Notts Trent Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety NEBOSHH Health and Safety Certificate C&G 725 level 3 in Direct Training BTEC Business Administration (2 A levels) 5 GCSE's

Clubs and Associations

Chartered Member of the Institute of Occupational Health and Safety (CMIOSH)
Member of the Manchester Occupational Health and Safety Group (MOHSG)
Member of the Federation of Small Business (FSB)
Member of Business Network International (BNI) the Business referral organisation

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