I am a former HM Principal Inspector with the Health and Safety Executive and Member of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. I have an in depth knowledge of the technical and statutory requirements of health and safety law and am a trained investigator. I joined HSE in 2001 and spent 8 years as an Inspector of Health and Safety in both the manufacturing and public sectors. For the last 5 years until forming DS Risk Management Ltd, I was a Principal Inspector managing a team of regulatory inspectors, managing their investigations and acting as an approval officer for over 50 regulatory prosecutions that were brought before the courts.

The role also encompassed writing and publishing national safety alerts, strategic liaison and with the Police, HM Coroners, Crown Prosecution Service, Counsel and senior detectives in a number of work related manslaughter investigations and strategic liaison with other regulators including General Medical Council, Environment Agency, Care Quality Commission, Ofsted and Local Authorities in the North West.

I specialise in health and safety, advising organisations what compliance looks like and am skilled in investigating work related and other regulatory and care related incidents. My management oversight of HSE’s involvement as HSE Senior Investigating Officer at incidents involving work related fatalities provides a rich seam of experience, advice and information for other regulators and investigators in the corporate regulatory field.

My areas of interest and specialism are healthcare, local authorities, waste management, general care sector, manufacturing, public sector and strategic health and safety management for senior managers. I have experience of a wide range of manufacturing sectors and was HSE regional lead for waste management. My interests are broad and include providing regulators with the skills to investigate potential corporate offences, to provide advice to senior managers in organisations about how to deal with regulators and to equip them at all levels of their organisation with the skills to manage health and safety and to know what compliance looks like. I can provide an arguably unique insight into what compliance looks like in an organisation and can assist in achieving this in all sizes of businesses and organisations in both the public and private sectors I am a University of Durham graduate and have a post graduate diploma in Occupation Health and Safety from Heriot Watt University.