Mr Ian McKinnon
BSc (dual hons), PGCert, FRSPH, CMIOSH
Overview
Simplex Safety Solutions delivers high quality affordable health and safety compliance solutions. We offer consultancy, training and advisory services across the UK. You can visit our website / Contact us on 0800 061 4333 or email sales@simplexsafetysolutions.co.uk for more details.
Specialisms
Industry | Years Experience |
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Chemicals | 16 |
Construction | 25 |
Manufacturing | 13 |
Education | 16 |
Topic | Years Experience |
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Risk management | 16 |
Offices | 16 |
Chemicals | 16 |
Services
Fees
Fixed fee service - excellent rates. Call 0800 061 4333 for a no obligation quote.
Health & Safety Audits - HSG65
The HSG65 audit is a management system audit designed to ensure you can be legally compliant with the Health and Safety at Work Etc, Act 1974 and daughter legislation.
Once you book your health and safety audit meeting, you will be allocated a consultant (CMIOSH minimum & OHSCR registered) who will e-mail you to discuss next steps.
a comprehensive audit report within 24 hrs of visiting. The report will include recommendations and suggested timescales for close out of actions with graphical summary compliance charts for helping with bench-marking, presenting results and reviewing KPIs.
Comprehensive audit report; gap analysis, advice for each element, recommendations, dashboard for benchmarking
OHSAS 18001 / ISO 45001 - Migration Support
We can help 1st party internal auditors and 2nd party suppliers migrate from ISO 18001 - ISO 45001. Only delivered by ISO 45001 Lead Auditors. Call 01782 703711 or email sales@simplexsafetysolutions.co.uk to discuss your bespoke requirements
Comprehensive assistance to smoothly transition from OHSAS 18001 to ISO 45001 International Standard.
ISO 45001 1st Party Support for Internal Audi
We can help guide your internal auditors through the process of obtaining certification. You can ensure that when the time comes for 3rd party certification, the process goes smoothly.
Our BSI trained Lead auditors can give as much or little support as you need. We will of course advise how much might be optimal, but you decide ultimately.From a 1-day meeting to explain the key aspects of ISO 45001 accreditation, to comprehensive assistance from concept to achieving the standard and beyond. You can be sure of a World Class Service to help you achieve a World Class Standard.
Guidance and support to help your internal auditors achieve or maintain the ISO 45001 standard.
ISO 45001 2nd Party Supplier Audit
We can provide supplier audits to assess against the standard for your supply chain.
You can decide the scope, objectives and criteria for the audit against the standard or we can advise on a consultative basis or advisory capacity.
Bespoke ISO 45001 audit report highlighting supplier compliance, non-conformities and OFIs - as agreed by your specifications
ISO 45001 3rd Party Certification Audits
For UKAS accredited certification bodies, we can supply associate Lead Auditors / Auditors for certification audits across the UK and Europe.
Various 3rd Party Certification services
Health & Safety Policy
At simplex, we don't do generic off-the-shelf policies. Your consultant will get to know your business and tailor a bespoke health and safety policy which will be relevant to what you do and what you ask of your employees.
The policy we develop for you will be informed by your activities, hazards, risks, inputs, processes and outputs.
Bespoke health and safety policy
Site Inspections
So you have your policy and your audit is completed so you know where the gaps are. How do you know if your system is working in practice?
That's where site inspections come in and they are essential to ensuring your systems are effective and that you are legally compliant.
Often clients do their own site inspections, sometimes at every level of their personnel structure and this is to be encouraged. People will have different perspectives and the more the better.
However, at reasonable intervals it is prudent to get the experts in just for that extra peace of mind.
Comprehensive site inspection report including advice and recommendations
Fire Risk Assessments
Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 or Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 employers must ensure that a competent person:
Identifies the fire hazards.
Identifies people at risk.
Evaluates, removes or reduces the risks.
Records the findings, prepares an emergency plan and provides training.
Reviews and updates the fire risk assessment regularly.
As you will appreciate, the consequences of getting this wrong could be catastrophic.
Fire risk assessment report including advice and recommendations
Health and Safety Workshops
We can host and facilitate workshop events at Keele Hall on the Keele University campus.
Covering most health and safety topics this is an entirely bespoke service that is designed to meet your company needs, materials can be completely branded for your company if needed.
Popular topics include:
Safe Systems of Work / Method Statements
HAZOP Analysis
Event Tree Analysis
Failure modes effect analysis
Behavioural safety and culture
Corporate leaders in health and safety
Bespoke workshop certificate of attendance. Training and competence aspects fullfilled acording to agreed specifications.
CDM 2015 Adviser
Our CDM Adviser services are always bespoke to the project. Examples of support we can give to duty holders are as follows:
Concept & Pre-start attendance
PC / PD / Client liaison
Pre-start surveys & inspections
CDM Reports
Pre-construction information review
Supplier competency checking /
PQQ reviews
Construction phase H&S Plan guidance
Construction phase H&S meetings
Construction phase Inspections
Construction phase audits
Health & Safety File co-ordination Handover & completion advice and guidance
Various outputs according to client specification.
Training Needs Analysis
Under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 all employers must ensure that employees receive adequate health and safety training.
Apart from the legal duty, there are many benefits to having an adequately trained workforce.
Better quality of work
Help businesses adapt for growth
Reduce errors
Increased staff morale
Recruit and attract the best candidates
Increase in productivity
Fewer client / customer complaints
More fluid role out of new systems & procedures
For basic training needs analysis, often a simple task survey combined with roles / responsibilities analysis can provide the information needed to populate a training matrix. It is then just a matter of ensuring training is planned, managed and coordinated effectively.
For some businesses and organisations there are more complex training needs with multiple sites, many personnel, high risk activities, specialised training or other factors.
Simplex can assist with any or all stages of your training needs analysis. For those looking for best practice, we can look at the wider sphere of competence and conduct a 'Learning Needs Analysis'
Training needs analysis - comprehensive report and recommendations. Assistance with sourcing provision.
Learning Needs Analysis
The learning needs analysis would recognise that competencies may also come from sources other than training, for example:
What do employees need to be able to know or do
Capability, knowledge, skill, competency
What are the expectations of their Role
Task analysis / roles and responsibilities / Activities not written or formally capturedGap analysis
Identified shortcomingsClosing the Gap
Learning or training methods requiredEvaluating the Learning
Success monitoring and assessment processResponsibility
Who steers this learning
Learning needs analysis - comprehensive report and recommendations. Assistance with sourcing provision.
Loss Event Services - Crisis Planning
Even with robust systems in place sometimes things go wrong.
We can help with crisis planning to try and ensure that when they do, companies are prepared and know what to do and when to do it.
Loss events can happen at any time and in some cases are catastrophic. An event may be the loss of plant, a building, injury or fatality (s) or loss of business / clients due to lack of planning.
Simplex can provide a strategic overview of likely /possible loss events using a modified management oversight risk tree analysis
Mod-Mort analysis report with recommendations.
Loss Event Services - Incident Investigation
When loss event incidents occur, it is important to conduct investigations at the appropriate depth and level to try and prevent a recurrence
For some situations this will simply mean a senior member of staff filling in an incident report and emailing stakeholders to raise awareness about the key findings.
In other cases, a formal incident investigation carried out by an objective 3rd party is needed. That's where Simplex can ensure that a thorough investigation is carried out by a suitablyqualified person.
Comprehensive incident investiigation report & recommendations. Detailed cause analysis summary included.
Loss Event Services - Lessons Learned
A key part to loss event management is to ensure that the same mistakes that lead to the incident don't happen again.
We can help you implement near-miss reporting mechanisms that actually work, appropriate awareness campaigns, preparing reports and close-out strategies.
We can also liaise with enforcing authorities, the police, barristers and insurers on your behalf.
Bespoke communications and prevention strategies and implementation as agreed.
SSIP Acreditations such as CHAS
Simplex can assist in helping you pass these accreditations. Call us for more details.
Pass and maintain your SSIP accreditation
Health and Safety Management Systems
Build from scratch or upgrade existing H&S Systems. Our Chartered Consultants can ensure your management system is robust, functional, appropriate and legally compliant.
A PDCA compliant imbedded health and saefty management system.
Health & Safety SSS Dashboard
A place where client members can store and retrieve all their content privately and securely in one place. A login is required to view which you control. No other member can access your files. The dashboard acts as a secure suite, secondary back up of your files for crisis management, data repository and bookings manager all in one.
User friendly, secure & private access to bespoke online documentation vault.
Health & Safety Training
CPD Certified - Public, In-House & Online training avalaible across a variety of H&S subjects. See our weblink for details: https://www.simplexsafetysolutions.co.uk/courses
Trained staff with internationally accredited certificates bearing the CPD logo.
Advisory Services
We have several levels of advisory service available. See our weblink for detailshttps: https://www.simplexsafetysolutions.co.uk/plans-pricing
Various depending upon plan taken.
Work History
Role | From - To | Job Title / Description |
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Managing Director | 04.2019 - today | Founder, owner & MD of Simplex Safety Solutions Ltd. Please see website for services. Ian has over 20 years’ experience in health and safety both in consultancy and training across a wide range of sectors. He specialises in high risk sectors such as construction, science & manufacturing. He has completed post graduate level qualifications in health safety and environmental management, has the NVQ 4 in occupational health and safety practice and is also a qualified scientist. Ian has CTLLS level teaching qualifications and has achieved many vocational training awards such as scaffold inspector, COSHH assessor, confined spaces top man and first aid trainer. He is an approved assessor and examiner for NEBOSH and approved tutor for most NEBOSH, IOSH and CSkills (CITB) courses. He has also published several articles on health and safety topics for national journals such as Practice Manager and Site Equipment. Ian is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health since 2004 and a Chartered Health and Safety Practitioner with IOSH since 2007. |
Membership of Professional Bodies
Professional Body | Membership | Member since | OSHCR Eligible Since |
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IOSH | Chartered Member (CMIOSH) | 03.2004 | 03.2004 |
Qualifications
Accrediting Institute | Type | Qualification | Date passed |
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Other | Degree or Above | Post Graduate Certificate Occupational H&S Practice | 07.2004 |
Other | Degree or Above | BSc (Dual Hons) Biology & Environmental Management | 07.2001 |
City & Guilds | Diploma | NVQ4 Occupational H&S Practice | 11.2006 |
NEBOSH | Certificate | NEBOSH Certificate in Construction H&S | 09.2011 |
NEBOSH | Certificate | NEBOSH Certificate in General H&S | 09.2011 |
Other | Certificate | ISO 45001 Lead Auditor | 03.2019 |
Further Information
ISO 45001 Lead Auditor
NEBOSH Diploma Examiner
Fellow of RSPH
Case Studies
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