North East Lincolnshire Council, (NELC)

Leading a team of health and safety professionals, internal audit team and occupational health services supporting 3,000 internal employees across multiple sites and services including but not limited to; Energy from Waste Combined Heat and Power Plant, environmental services, health services, construction, material reclamation facility, architectural consultancy, neighbourhood services, customer access, legal, planning, facilities management, education, safer communities, specialist health promotion, emergency planning, highways and transport.

Provision of “Competent Person” role across a number of external service level agreements with: Private, Public Sector and Education organisations, (further 5,000 employees).

Improving performance, statutory compliance and delivering continuous improvement and culture change via strategic management, competent advice and guidance along with full OHS Management System ownership.  Development, implementation and monitoring of policy and procedures, risk assessment support, risk management, internal audits, inspections, health surveillance, behavioural safety monitoring, training programmes, accident and incident investigations, including root cause analysis.  CDM-Coordinator/Advisor function for new build, refurbishment and demolition projects, project management and board support.  Recruitment, monitoring and developing a team of OHS professionals, budget management, Permit to Work (PTW) authoriser,  provision of emergency response, supporting COMAH exercises in liaison with Humber bank plants, public and emergency services.  Analysis of pro-active and reactive OHS performance, production of reports and communications to raise awareness and identify areas for improvement.  Chair corporate meetings, building and maintaining excellent working relationships and networks internally and externally with clients, Health and Safety Executive, Environment Agency and Emergency Services.

Major Achievements:

• Set up and implementation of full OHS Management System in line with BS OHSAS 18001:2007.
• Delivered 81% reduction in Employee Injuries and Ill Health and 98% reduction in Employee RIDDOR Reports between 2010 and 2015 as an outcome of continuous improvement and culture change.
• Delivered £0.45 million savings via improved investigations and litigation defence in 2013/14.
• Attained RoSPA Gold Medal Award for OHS Management in 2015, following 5 consecutive gold achievement awards.
• Set up health and safety training packages and schedule, delivering increased awareness across all areas of the organisation, (delivering to 2,000 employees per year).
• Developed external traded services resulting in income generation of £200k per annum.
• Internal Organisation Award Winner “Outstanding Team Performance 2012/13”, (OHS Team).
• Internal Organisation Award Nominee “Manager of the Year 2013/14”
• Winner of the Royal Society for Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) 2017 Public Service and Local Government Sector Award in Occupational Health and Safety Management.

Ondeo Industrial Solutions deliver water, wastewater and environmental solutions to customers across the UK and Europe, predominantly covering operations, maintenance, chemical dosing systems, laboratory support and projects within oil and gas, manufacturing and power generation industries.

Ownership of Health, Safety, Quality and Environmental Management Systems, monitoring their effectiveness and ensuring optimisation to meet the needs of both the business, ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and BS OHSAS 18001 standards.  Coordination of internal and external audits teams whilst promoting the concept of continuous improvement.  Providing HSandE responses for pre-qualifications, (tender evaluations and audits); interfaces with clients and contractors.  Information collation, reporting, trend analysis to provide focus and reduce the potential for harm to people or the environment.  Creation, management and implementation of company wide HSE procedures, systems and training initiatives.  Provision of competent HSQE advice and guidance on all matters pertaining to contracts covering; ConocoPhillips ICHP, the Humber, Chevron Texaco and Grangemouth Refineries along with the Seagate Facility in Northern Ireland and contracts within mainland Europe, (Spain and France).

Extensive experience of inspections, behavioural safety, internal audits and reports.  Development of company and local policies, procedures, plans, safe systems of work, HSE training and assessments.  Leading and assisting in HSE focus groups, committees and investigation teams.

Major Achievements:

• Achieved Zero Accidents and Environmental Breaches for 2.5 years (April 2008).
• Sustained certification to BS OSHAS 18001, ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 standards.
• Attained RoSPA Occupational Safety Gold Awards in 2006, 2007 and 2008.
• Implementation of company-wide training, HSEQ databases and near miss reporting system.
• Delivered £45k savings via implementation of company wide PPE Management System.

Safe Systems (UK) Limited:

Delivering the Competent Person role to a range of private sector clients / organisations covering; highways, infrastructure, process, manufacturing, warehousing, distribution and logistics sectors.  Providing cost effective health, safety and environmental solutions.

Arcadis is the leading global Design and Consultancy firm, applying market sector insights and collective design, consultancy, engineering, project, and management services.  Working in partnership with clients to deliver exceptional and sustainable outcomes throughout the lifecycle of their natural and built assets. With over 27,000 people active in over 70 countries that generate €3.3 billion in revenues.

Leading on OHS Services and strategy; liaison with clients, identifying needs, developing innovative solutions and proposals whilst landing and expanding new projects.  Ensuring clients compliance with applicable health and safety legislation, minimising accidents and incidents, ultimately driving change and continuously improving their overall OHS performance.  Developing and delivering EHS/OHS Strategy, line management responsibilities for employees within EHS, CDM and Project Management areas whilst coordinating and delivering innovative solutions relating to OHS/EHS and Facilities Management/Assets.  Supporting services to range of public and private sector clients including but not limited to:  Ministry of Justice, HM Courts and Tribunal Services, other Local and Central Government, Healthcare (NHS Trusts), Financial Institutions, ESFA and Data Centres.

TBC