Freelance Health, Safety, Environment and Quality consultant covering UK and overseas.

Theo Paphitis Small Business Sunday (#SBS) winners Durham Electrics Limited are fast becoming the number one electrical contractor in Durham and Darlington. We assist our clients with LED and energy efficient lighting through our in-house specialists. Durham Electrics is also able to offer clients full electrical maintenance packages ranging from emergency lighting to portable appliance testing and fixed electrical inspections.

Durham Electrics will help you to achieve improvement ratings on your energy consumption targets and objectives. This will assist you with your overall carbon emissions and as such show your supply chain your commitments to the overall UK target of reduction. Whether you are looking for simple and effective LED lighting or designer products Durham Electrics has a solution for you.

Main areas of assistance include but not limited to:

• Health, safety and environmental advice including CDM 2015
• managing policy and procedures
• health, safety and environment training as required
• assisting with finances as and when required

Group International SHEQ and Energy Manager supporting the Group SHEQ and Security Director to lead mentor and develop the SHEQ function within the wider WYG group. Katherine is also one of the Groups Nominated Health and Safety Competent Persons to advise the Chief Executive Officer of WYG Group and others in Health and Safety matters that affect WYG activities.

Katherine’s focus areas include (but not limited to):

• Attend and interact with the PLC board of directors at the PLC board meetings on all Health. Safety and welfare matters at a frequency of no less than twice per annum
• Further develop and advise on and assist in the implementation of the Health and Safety policy and associated policies, organisation structure and arrangements to ensure that Health and Safety is effectively managed in-line with WYG PLC standards and objectives to address specific issues that are related to its own operations.
• Act as the SHEQ Partner to the International Development business and the Infrastructure and Built Environment Business to provide support and guidance on Health, Safety, Environment, Quality and Energy.
• Act as the Groups Energy Manager providing support and guidance on energy compliance to the Senior Management Team via the Chief Information Officer (CIO);
• Participate and lead on Environmental compliance within the Group’s Corporate Responsibility team lead by the company secretary.
• Liaison with the Group International Operational Security Manager with international projects (overseas travel);
• Promote continuous improvement in Health and Safety performance across all parts of the Group and support the wider SHEQ and Security team in determining safer working practices through risk assessment and effective control of risks;
• Implementation and management of Environment Champions and Health and Safety Coordinators within UK and overseas offices to ensure Health, Safety, Environmental and Energy compliance is being suitably achieved; 
• Perform office, project and site audits and inspections of management of Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) risks, issue reports, propose corrective actions;
• Review accident / incident investigation reports to ensure that immediate and root causes have been accurately identified and appropriate action has been taken to prevent a recurrence and reduce and control risks agreed and implemented;
• Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of current and proposed legislation and standards relating to Health and Safety issues;
• Support in the delivery of a Health, Safety and Environment training programme;
• Support Directors and Partners in achieving their SHEQ Objectives and Targets and monitor progress in their achievement;
• Management of the Environmental Management System including the calculation and reporting of the organisations’ carbon emissions; and;
• Development and delivery of an energy management system in accordance with ISO 50001 to strengthen ESOS compliance in future years.

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Duties included: Internal and External Auditing on IMS procedures within the group for compliance with OHSAS 18001, ISO 9001 and ISO 14001. Training and development of Office Health, Safety and Environmental Coordinators across the UK and Ireland.

Various roles held including;

• office health and safety coordinator
• project health and safety coordinator 
• environmental champion 
• training liaison officer and
• corporate sustainability responsibility champion 

Katherine was involved in the streamlining of the Health, Safety and Environmental policies and procedures whilst the company re-branded to become WYG.

Assistant  / Junior Planning Supervisor (CDM-Coordinator) with involvement on a number of large scale projects for blue chip organisations. I was lead CDM-Coordinator for a number of small local authority projects.

Other jobs I was involved with was the day-to-day running of the Office and Project Health and Safety for compliance with OHSAS 18001 and ISO 9001.

Supporting volunteers and staff within a charitable organsation.