Open to opportunities in following areas:
- Interim health and safety management
- Policy development and review
- Compliance and culture improvement programmes
- ISO45001 gap analysis
- Compliance audits and investigations

Employer: University of Hertfordshire

Role: Supporting the Director of Health, Safety and Sustainability with project work, including:

• Policy on small unmanned aircraft (SUA)
• Audit of areas with risk of oxygen depletion
• Review of website guidance
• Development of guidance on DSEAR
• Training options analysis

Employer: University of Essex

Key achievement:
Moved the University from a culture that was reactive and risk adverse to one where health, safety and wellbeing is seen as fundamental to their vision and goals, with demonstrable improvment in complinance.
Role:

• Provided strategic direction and led the planning, development and implementation, monitoring and review of the University’s Health and Safety Policy and management systems.
• Led the content and structure of health and safety policies, procedures and management systems and
• Provided expert advice to the University’s Council and Steering Group.
• Led a team of health and safety and fire safety professionals providing operational support and specialist advice to the University and its subsidiaries.

Employer; Essex County Council

Key achievement: Led development of  policies and strategies for effective health and safety management throughout the Council.
Role:

• Advised the Corporate Leadership Team on health and safety strategy and policy.
• Worked with senior managers to implement the Health and Safety Policy in their areas of responsibility
• provided regular reports on the  Council’s health and safety performance, and risks arising from the Council’s activities, strategies and plans.

Employer: Essex County Council

Key achievements:

• Strengthened monitoring of health and safety across 500+ schools, through development of electronic internal monitoring, enabling the Corporate Leadership Team to gain assurance on H&S compliance.
• Influenced education leaders to fund a wellbeing programme for schools, then worked collaboratively to promote the programme to schools, enabling the Authority and its schools to demonstrate proactive action on managing work related stress.

Role:
Provided advice and support to specific departments of the Council, including training, auditing and development of health and safety standards,

Employer: Hertfordshire County Council

Key achivement: Development of Educational Visits Policy and processes for schools and childrens services, enabling schools to use a risk based approach to the manangement of risk during school visits.
Role:

• Provided a health and safety advisory service to the Schools and to Children and Families Service.
• Strategic responsibility for monitoring and audit adherence to the Council's health and safety standards.
• Leading Development and implementation of health and safety standards, Strategic responsibility for the Department's response to major emergencies and critical incidents

Employer: National Britannia

Role: Carrying out audits and risk assessments, primarily for facilities management organisations.

Employer: Chelmsford Borough Council

Key Achievements:

• Full organisational health and safety audit
• Set up a health and safety management system from scratch,
• Development of policies and guidance on violence at work, stress, control of contractors
• Development of health and safety  intranet site

Role:

• Development and implementation of health and safety policy and strategy.
• Advice on changes to legislation and guidance and their practical implementation
• Development and maintenance of the Health and Safety Plan
• Development and maintenance of health and safety standards and intranet site
• Design and delivery of health and safety training
• Monitoring health and safety: inspections, audits, investigations.

Employer: Essex County Council

Key achievements:

Developed health and safety standards for design and technology workshops, administration of medicines, office safety.

Role:

As part of the health and safety team provided
advisory service on health and safety:

• Health and safety advice
• Development of health and safety standards
• Design and delivery of health and safety training
• Inspections, investigations and audits

Employer: Coventry University

Key achievements:

Reviewed, updated and simplified a range of  health and safety standards, enabling the University's requirements to be communicated in a clear and  in consistant way.

Provide advice on Covid-19 and developed assessment tools and guidance which enabled return to work, teaching and research activities in a Covid-secure way.

Developed a comprehensive statutory compliance tools and carried out a programme of compliance audits of each of the University's academic buildings and accomodation.

Client: Coventry University

Key achievements

• Review and simplication of a suite of health and safety standards
• Developed tools/guidance and advised on risk assessment in relation to reoccupation of buildings following Covid-19 pandemic
• Set up auding process and carried out statutory compliance audits

Client: Lambeth Council

Role and key achievements

• Providing strategic management and direction  across the Council
• Leading the Corporate Health and Safety Team to ensure provision of a high quality, cost effective service
• Collaboration with key stakeholders to enable improvement in health and safety compliance and culture
• Development of tools and  guidance, and provision of advice on COVID-19 and return to workplace
• Leading H&S workstream for programme of work on new hybrid working arangements
• Improving health and safety planning and reporting

Client: The National Theatre, London

Role and Key achievements

Competent Person for health and safety and fire for the National Theatre.
Leading development and implemetation of National Theatre’s safety risk management, fire and health strategies, polices and associated systems
Creating a strategic, proactive and comprehensive approach to the management of risk and compliance in terms of the legislature framework and best practice.
Providing operational safety support to all departments through development and implementation of health and safety improvement initiatives and H&S action plans.
Promoting and embedding an effective and positive health and safety culture.
Leading the Health and Safety Team

Client: The Royal Academy of Art, London

Role and achievements

Supporting managers with ISO 45001 compliance, advising on health and safety for exhibitions etc

Client: Dacorum Borough Council

Role and key achievements

Carried out in depth review of health and safety management at the Council and created Health and Safety Plan to improve culture and compliance
Development of:
- Health and Safety Risk Profile - to aid senior management oversight of risk
- Top Risks Compliance Dashboard - to provide assurance to leaders on management of key H&S risks in Services
- Documented H&S management arrangements and tools,
- Quarterly Service / Directorate performance reporting
Revised and rewrote the Health and Safety Policy
Provided training to leadership team and Members
Led Corporate Health and Safety and Resilience team for 5 months.