Overview

We have established close working relationships with its customers within various industries. We provide practical and affordable bespoke Health & Safety packages, we can help any organisation by offering a wide range of services from a one-off audit to a long term strategic partnership/appointed person arrangement.

Simon Brentnall is the Principal Consultant and Director of Hallam Safety and has been a Health Safety & Environmental professional since 1999.  He comes from a multidisciplined disciplined environment having previously fulfilled a national role as a Health & Safety Director for a powered access company and also served 15 years as Senior Health & Safety Manager for a national FSTE250 plant and tool hire company. 

Attributes include, good communication and organisational skills with the ability to advocate change at all levels. A senior manager with experience of managing a team with leadership & coaching experience. Customer facing with 35 years in the support services industry. Specialisms include health & safety, fire safety, accident/incident investigation, report writing, training, facilities management, work at height, manual handling, hand arm vibration, dust, risk assessment & method statements, auditing and presenting. Diverse experience within the following sectors:

• Construction

• Manufacturing

• Food Industry

• Rentals 

• Logistics

• Rail

• Nuclear

• Petrochemical

• Utilities

Currently Principal Consultant and Director at Hallam Safety Ltd and fulfilling the role of the appointed person for several small to medium enterprises and completing contracts for larger national organisations and acting Head of Health & Safety for a Federation.

Key Achievements

• Designed and delivered behavioural safety awareness campaigns

• Author of fire safety booklet endorsed by CEO of institute of fire engineers

• Implemented safety innovation 

• Written, reviewed and delivered training courses

• Written industry level guidance on materials handling equipment, fire safety, working at height

• Technical author (Written safety leaflets for industry & Hire Association of Europe)

• Vice Chairman Working Well Together Group (Haydock 2012/13)

• Successful in advocating and implementation safety handrails, tail-lift gates, mesh inserts to the first commercial vehicles first following the work at height regulations.

• Excellence award finalist (Speedy)

• Standardisation of re-fuelling hoses (Shell UK)

• Public speaking IOSH meetings (Cumbria & Haydock)

• Interview panel member for those gaining chartered status – IOSH

• Working with International Powered Access Federation to produce industry best practice document for loading and unloading heavy good vehicles.

• Supported accounts teams at client meetings. 

• Development and implementation of PDA based audit system/tracker

• Worked with OPERC & HSE to develop common hand arm vibration data base