Consultant Profile

James Cumming is the Company Director for Simple Safety Advice Ltd (since 2009) and CEO of Trackable Safety an online training platform and CRM management system.

James is a highly motivated construction support specialist running his own safety consultancy that provides detailed safety support, ISO management systems and Principal Designer support. James’ unique expertise comes from his ‘on the ground’ experience managing complex building projects and solving design issues when working as a Project Manager and Senior Director for new builds, civils, railways and refurbishments. 

The majority of construction projects that James supports range from £250,000 to £20million.  James is able to provide various levels of support from safety documentation, site audits, mentoring on-site staff, training workers, accident investigations and attending senior management/board meetings.

Additional services to the Principal Designer role provided by James include developing strategic plans, overseeing risk management issues, ensuring legal compliance and providing bespoke Principal Designer and Design Risk training.

Recently, James led a Top 100 company’s safety team to achieve 2 million man hours of work with zero RIDDORS, providing both management and safety support services.  This also improved their internal management systems and involved accident investigations whose root causes were generated from poor project design and lack of understanding by designers on how to build safely.

James has also successfully managed his company accreditation team to achieve Link Up, ISO 9001, 14001 and 18001 for a range of companies and regularly achieves certification to bodies requiring SSIP certification such as CHAS, SMAS, Constructionline and FORS (for transport companies).