XIPHOS Strategic Safety Ltd.

As Director of Xiphos, I provide strategic Health & Safety leadership consultancy, delivering tailored solutions that elevate client organisations to best-practice standards with minimal disruption. Leading intensive reviews and gap analyses of existing systems, identifying opportunities for improvement while understanding the operational context and culture of each organisation.

Under my leadership, Xiphos produced clear, accurate and practical documentation including reports, plans and strategies that enable best-practice recommendations and actionable guidance to support client safety objectives and drive measurable improvements.

FORTH® Group, Hampshire

Group and Board Director, Responsible for the development and execution of the company-wide strategy, obtaining, maintaining and relentlessly seeking opportunities for continually improving risk and compliance management across five businesses operating across various high-risk sites.  Transforming the Health and Safety Culture and management systems across the organisation and operating at the pinnacle of H&S best practice. winning the BSC Sword of Honour within 9 months of the improvement strategy.

• Executive Board Member monitoring and delivering the organisations’ strategic initiatives
• Leadership Performance Coaching and mentoring across departments
• Extensive internal and external leadership engagement
• Developing and reviewing best-in-class integrated management system to achieve ISO accreditation in 9001, 14001, 45001 and 27001 and BSC 5-star audit.
• Creating and delivering engaging in-house training across a number of disciplines.
• Establishing and maintaining Legal Compliance throughout the Group.
• Overseeing Risk & Compliance and chairing the management and performance review committee.
• Developing a functional H&S representation across businesses and locations to enhance collaboration, communication and participation.
• Leading Wellbeing and psychological safety strategy with the implementation of key initiatives.
• Line management responsibilities to a team of HSEQ professionals – ensuring personal development opportunities throughout.
• Establishing, integrating and monitoring Incident reporting and investigation processes
• Delivering in-house behavioural safety training and developing behavioural frameworks to enhance both leadership impact and employee decision making.
• Accountable for managing the Operational Safety budget across the Group of businesses and forecasting spend aligned with current performance trends.

Rugby Football Union, Twickenham (now Allianz) Stadium

Senior Management position based at the home of England Rugby.  Leading Health, Safety and Sustainability within the stadium and remote locations across the country.  Developing HSE improvement strategies and organisational objectives.

• Working closely with External stakeholders (SAG, Richmond Borough Council, businesses and residents) and internal stakeholders to ensure safe match-day operations and day to day stadium developments.
• Focus on enhancing spectator experience, including through the development and implementation of the venue accessibility improvement strategy.
• Following CDM requirements, developing site safety files for site-wide projects.
• Successfully delivering the ongoing HSE improvement strategy making Twickenham Stadium the first stadium to reach 5* status with British Safety Council and receiving the prestigious ‘Sword of Honour’ for 3 consecutive years.
• Completely renewing the HSE Management system from HS(G)65 to align with ISO45001, 14001 and event sustainability 20121 certification, achieving all standards.
• Leading H&S across all functions including CBRE contracted venue facilities, associated contracted/sub-contracted work, Twickenham Experience Limited (Conferences, Exhibitions, Food & Beverage) and the safe facilitation of rugby development across England.
• Leading stadium fire strategy and fire risk assessments and coordinating all operational and departmental risk assessments.
• Successfully implementing simple, accessible and transparent programmes to ensure HSE legal compliance across the organisation, Incident investigation and reporting (leading/lagging indicators) and specifically designed mandatory training for all employees.
• Leading strategic projects including the inclusive accessibility within the stadium and wider organisation, Business Continuity Plan for non-event days and Crisis response for event days.
• Leading Health and Safety during major events, providing support to the events team through the review of contractor RAMS, providing internal Risk Assessments and other documents within the Event Operations File and monitoring CDM requirements during TDS builds and concerts.
• Building a behavioural based safety culture from Leadership level through to the wider workforce.

Royal Berkshire Fire & Rescue Service, Reading

A high-level strategic role within the Fire and Rescue Service.  A member of the Senior Leadership Team and key Stakeholder leading, developing and strategically implementing the improvement plans throughout Thames Valley area.

• Leading health, safety and environmental processes and policies to ensure continual improvements and sharing best practice throughout across all areas of the Blue light services. 
• Building and delivering a behavioural framework, including robust, pragmatic and sensible management systems, HSE training across the organisation and a cultural improvement strategy to develop the safety culture of the service.
• Managing the service delivery fleet and equipment to ensure the organisation not only continues to serve the community during their time of need but to increase the efficiency of the service through the acquisition and trialling of new vehicles and equipment.  
• Accountable for all premises across the Royal Berkshire FRS, leading a team of facilities professionals to ensure legal compliance across the area and sharing better practice to the 45 services throughout England.

As Senior Safety Manager, I was responsible for maintaining and continuously improving HSES across the largest operational area within the LR Group. Working in collaboration with the Group HSES team in 71 Fenchurch St, I led the strategic implementation of the Zero Harm philosophy, providing technical guidance and operational support for HSES strategic projects. I managed a team of HSES Managers, Advisors, and Coordinators to ensure effective roll-out across Support, Energy, Marine & Offshore and Management Systems functions, collaborating with operational and group stakeholders to develop and execute improvement plans. Additionally, I led high-potential incident investigations through to root cause analysis, developed corrective and preventative actions and created behavioural safety culture programmes to drive measurable improvements across the area.Senior Safety Manager responsible in maintaining and continuously improving Health, Safety, Environment and Security within the largest operational area within the LR Group. 

• Working closely with the Group HSES team, in establishing and strategically implementing the Zero Harm philosophy. 
• Providing technical guidance and operational support in the development of the HSES strategy projects.
• Leading a team of HSES Managers, Advisors and Coordinators to ensure the effective roll-out and implementation of the Zero Harm philosophy across the Support function, Energy, Marine & Offshore and Management Systems businesses. 
• Collaborating with Operational and Group Support Key Stakeholders in the development and execution of HSES improvement plans throughout the UK&I area.
• Leading high potential incident investigation through to root cause and developing Corrective and Preventative action plans.
• Creating, coordinating and delivering behavioural safety culture improvement plans across the area.

Responsible for the implementation of the company’s internal safety management systems across the MEA and Kazakhstan region, delivering specialist HSES support across a high-risk, multi-cultural operational environment. Established, coached, and mentored a team of one full-time Senior OSH professional and 39 part-time safety staff across 20 offices in nine countries, while developing the region’s operational safety strategy in compliance with internal policies, local legislation and industry standards. Supported client-facing offices during bids and tenders, collaborated with client safety teams on joint initiatives, created and delivered training programmes to build competency and assessed high-risk activities and travel processes to ensure operational safety across the region.Responsible for the implementation of the company’s internal safety management systems across the MEA & Kazakhstan area. Providing specialist health, safety, security and environmental support to the area business streams within a high risk multi-cultural operational environment.

Royal Navy

Employed with the Royal Fleet Auxiliary Service as a Second Officer (Executive) Senior Watch Keeping Officer.  Following the traditional path of the Merchant navy to obtain my Professional qualifications, with the addition of a substantial overlay of Royal Navy training to develop skills and additional responsibilitiesto become operationally competent and accountable for  required in an operational environment.crew and passenger safety, collision avoidance, emergency response. Additional duties include Point Defence Officer, Ship Security Officer, Helicopter Controller, and Assistant Cargo Officer, with operational knowledge of SOLAS, ISM Code and ISPS requirements.