Mrs Angela Carney

BEng Hons Civil Engineering

Overview

I am a Chartered member of Institute of Occupational Safety & Health, a Practitioner member of Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment, an Incorporated member of Chartered Institute of Building. With a degree in Civil Engineering, Diploma in Occupational Safety and Health and Associate Certificate in Environmental Management, I have gained 32 years of construction experience, moving through the ranks in the Civil Engineering & Building industry, from a Setting out Engineer, through to Site Management. I have spent the last 20 years as a Health &  Safety Consultant & more recently an Environmental Consultant working for public & private Clients including Principal Contractors.

I am an experienced trainer, delivering training in Risk Assessment, Manual Handling, Accident Prevention & Investigation, CDM regulations, Fire Awareness / Prevention, H&S Awareness for operatives, Noise & Vibration, PPE and Safe Working at Height. I am also an NVQ assessor & Internal Verifier for the CSkills, OSAT / CSCS Card scheme.

I am a qualified and experienced Face Fit tester for Qualitative Face Fit Testing, which can be carried out on-site or at our offices.

I am an active committee member for the North East branch of  NAWIC (National Assocaition for Women in Construction), Co-Chair of Working Well Together (WWT), Committee member of Lighthouse Club. Vice President of the Northern Counties Builders Federation and  I am also on the board of Directors for Constructing Excellence in the North East.

Specialisms

Industry Years Experience
Construction 32
Topic Years Experience
Asbestos 15
Falls from height 25
First aid at work 5
Fire and explosion 10
Involving workers 20
Managing for health and safety 20
Musculoskeletal disorders 15
Slips and trips 25
Noise 15
Risk management 25
Vibration 15
Young people 15

Work History

Total years experience: 29
Role From - To Job Title / Description
Health & Safety Consultant 04.2002 - 11.2022

My experience has evolved as I started as a one woman band H&S consultant in 2002. I now have 8 consultants working for me with 3 administration support staff . I have over 170 Construction and Engineering Companies who use Carney Consultancy services for all aspects of H&S consultancy. I have 100+ companies who in addition to the 170 consultancy customers use our services for H&S Training.  Our website www.carneyconsultancy.co.uk provides a comprehenisve list of the services we can provide.

Membership of Professional Bodies

Professional Body Membership Member since OSHCR Eligible Since
IOSH Chartered Member (CMIOSH) 01.2017 11.2016

Qualifications

Accrediting Institute Type Qualification Date passed
NEBOSH Diploma Occupational Health & Safety 05.2011

Further Information

In addition to being a Chartered member of Institute of Occupational Safety & Health, i am a Practioner member of Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment, & an Incorporated member of Chartered Institute of Building. With a degree in Civil Engineering, Diploma in Occupational Safety and Health and Associate Certificate in Environmental Management.

Case Studies

Title / Description PDF Download
  • Training Requirements needs Assessment
  • Following instruction from Interceil we started dedicating our time to the development of their Health & Safety policies and procedures, while creating a personalised training plan to allow the company to be instantly recognisable as the highest trained in their region, working closely to ensure all staff were trained and briefed about all the QSHE documentation so that they could begin to implement the policies and procedures in their daily work.

    This training plan was to include but not limited to :
    • Delivery of NVQ Levels 2 & 3 for all their staff ahead of the main industry competitors in 2003
    • Manual Handling / Asbestos Awareness / Safe Working at Height / Abrasive Wheels
    • CITB 1-day Director Role
    • CITB 5-day Site Managers Safety Training Scheme & 2-day Refresher
    • CITB 2-day Site Supervisors Safety Training Scheme & 1 day Refresher
    • CITB 1-day Health & Safety Awareness

    The training and health and safety consultancy is ongoing and will continue to be updated and presented to new and existing employees of all seniority. The programme that we have implemented has given the company an experienced management team, diligent, conscientious and highly skilled and trained labour force.
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  • Infrastructure Site Services
  • Infrastructure Site Services contacted us to build their accreditations of ISO9001 / 14001 & 45001, with the goal of obtaining larger clients. Infrastructure needed more robust credentials to obtain work in supplementary industry sectors including the Railway sector, Northumberland County Council, and the public sector. Following instruction from Infrastructure Site Services, we started dedicating our time to the development of their Health & Safety, Quality & Environmental policies, while creating a personalised action plan of how these changes were to be made and how we could help the business to develop their accreditations to the highest standard.
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  • Kingston Property Services
  • We were tasked with implementing the updated fire risk assessments which then were tailored for the Property Managers so that they could have ease of use. Following that, we assisted with the current Health & Safety procedures with prime contractors and supported the business with their own process development, risk assessments and on-site checks.

    One of the key challenges we faced was being the new company to work with, as the Property Managers weren’t particularly keen to engage with us and weren’t interested in asking questions to learn the information needed around the fire risk assessments.

    We introduced face-to-face meetings, 3 to 4 times per year, with the Property Managers and with Assistant Director Sarah Dudgeon so that the Property Managers were fully aware as to what they could use our services for, which over time opened the communication lines between both parties which in turn was then fed back to the Scheme Directors with less errors and confusion.
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  • ISO Systems works
  • P. F. Burridge & Sons work included undertaking reactive maintenance for several housing associations, installing boilers, boiler maintenances for energy suppliers and undertaking building projects for companies like Newcastle University and some new build housing. They employed over 150 members of staff across the two branches. The Health & Safety member of staff left the company, and Burridge needed to replace the role/ manage the workload. Carney Consultancy had been recommended previously to the company director to fulfil this role, and after an initial meeting, we started working directly with them for 2-3 days a week on a commission basis and then received an annual budget to complete the work. After some time, we came to a decision to have 6 consultants on commission from Carney Consultancy to replace this role instead of having a full-time member of staff.
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