Consultant Profile

Lead the CDM consultancy service for the Northern Region of England and Wales.

Support clients with principal design advice and client advisor roles throughout project concept and design stages.

Act as client assurance during construction phase of projects.

Support the Executive Management Team of 2 recently merged housing associations into building a risk profile, operational risk resilience and framework safety management system cross-group.

Six Business Units within the group required support.  This included, support services, in house contractors (maintenance), CDM, Capital Works,Operations, IT.

I developed a formal audit scoring system mapped against HSG 65 and also implemented a bespoke safety audit training programme for the safety team and business unit directors.

This role required a deep-dive review of health and safety management within the organisation, followed by a strategic action plan and subsequent implementation, prior to the appojnted 'Head of' taking post in August.

Employed by Mace Group. Leading the UK Regional business to support blue chip clients in both CAPEX and OPEX projects.

Clients included GSK, National Grid, United Utilities and several EFA Free Schools.

The role required extensive travel and knowledge of CDM for pre-construction and ongoing construction phase auditing of principal contractor arrangements against construction phase plan.

Employed by Mace Group.  Seconded onto major civils construction project with Dangerous Substances, Explosive Atmospheres risks.

Project involved several complex crane lifts, interface between live environment and construction.

Interface between port, rail and road logistics throughout.

Several behavioural and cultural challenges were identified and overcome during my tenure at this unique and interesting project.

Working for Mace Group.  I remained responsible for the health and safety training service across the 5,000 Mace employee spectrum.  This included delivering training to the Middle East Regional projects in safety leadership.

I developed a formal training package to support the 32,000 strong supply chain as well as an e-learning portfolio prior to my joining a live project on site.

I was responsible for course accreditations and validations as well as the ongoing quality assurance of all training, including the associates with technical delivery such as asbestos, work at height, legionella, crane operations.

I personally delivered training for the CITB Site Safety Plus suite which included SMSTS and SSSTS.  I also designed and delivered internal training for COSHH, Manual Handling, RAMS and contractor safety awareness.

Better Safety has five key areas of delivery:

1. CDM: Client Advisor | Principal Design Advisor | Site H&S Advisor
2. Strategic Safety Services: Board Level | Non-Executive Director
3. Bespoke Training: Safety Leadership | Safety Management Systems
4. Competent Person: Supporting SME businesses
5. Coaching and Mentoring: C-Managers only

Better Safety has the benefit of corporate multi-national experience that can be scaled to fit projects around England and Wales.

Our smallest projects have been for £5,000 domestic construction and our largest single client portfolio of projects is £100M.

We can provide one-off reactive solutions such as accident investigation or project document reviews.

Our main area of business is in delivering complex and strategic level projects for busy professionals who need to implement management systems or to ensure their construction projects are maintained to the appropriate standard.

For further information on how Better Safety can help you and your business, visit our website:

www.simply-better-safety.co.uk

Or call now to see how we can help your business meet your health and safety goals:

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