I was appointed head of department for a highly respected training and consultancy firm, International Workplace. I was involved in developing their portfolio of services as well as being a full tieme trainer, consultant and the quality lead.

Role and achievements

Advising the firm on health, safety and environment. There are 2,500 lawyers and support on our London estate of half a million square feet of prestige offices. That is half of the total global headcount for a law firm turning over £1.4bn pa, with over 100% annual churn – so a very busy place.

In my time I have almost done everything I think: workstation and DDA assessments for a hugely diverse office population, monitoring noise in sensitive locations, managing three cooling towers for legionella and doing water quality analysis for a sprinkler pipe replacement programme, craning in chillers over roofs on busy streets, measuring slip coefficients on York stone paving. I have dealt with from a £24m 18-month refit that had to be completed by the opening ceremony of the Olympic games (it was delivered with zero accidents, on time and under budget by a great team). I devised a way to do a trapeze from a window cleaning cradle and bmx displays and volleyball on an atrium floor. I’ve carried out fire risk assessments, drills, trained marshals, run BCP plans, managed sprinklers and replaced panels. I’ve helped the firm choose LED lighting and replacement chillers and other energy saving initiatives that cut millions of kilowatt-hours off of our consumption.

I am most proud of developing management systems for H&S and environment successfully certified to OHSAS18001 and ISO14001 management standards by LRQA. In such a fast moving place that is ironically quite policy averse, we have put the firm on a sound footing to go forward and improve safety and sustainability performance. I have also organised energy audits to Article 8, carried out carbon footprints and sustainability measurements. In fact as a Founder member of Legal Sustainability Alliance. A colleague and I created the first database by which law firm sustainability could be measured. I recently achieved a BIFM Level 5 Award developing my understanding of FM and have developed ways to help the FM functions achieve their goals of cutting cost and waste. I helped the firm achieve an award for recycling partnerships with the first successful closed loop for white office paper.

Role and achievements

Advising on legislation and encouraging development of company policy. Participating in the corporate governance process. Designing and implementing risk management system. Monitoring, auditing and inspecting premises, investigating accidents and losses and overseeing training and development of safe behaviours.  Role expanded to take on environmental management including advising on waste management tender and energy efficiency. Some involvement in Business Continuity planning. Revised the firm’s policy, established the H&S committee and advised the board and management on reporting H&S performance. Improved accident performance, first aid provision and emergency planning. Wrote the text for Schroders first published environmental and social report. Worked with HSE/Claros on project linking H&S and investment performance. Assisted the firm in achieving ratings in BiTC, Dow Jones and FTSE4Good Indices and Innovest AAA rating for environmental management. Achieved Corporate Membership of IOSH and Associate Membership of IEMA.

Role and achievements

Advising on legislation and writing company policy, forming the H&S committee with board level involvement. Monitoring and inspection of risk management measures. Managing H&S training and equipment for first aid and fire. Extensive experience in BC planning. Founder member of the London Banks Health and Safety Forum. Designed an intranet based DSE assessment system with Network Associates (first in the UK – now commonplace). Achieved year on year reduction in accident rate. Developed risk management approach as a means of highlighting importance of H&S to the bank. Completed FTC Introduction to Investment Banking course. Achieved upgrade to TechSP status in IOSH.

Role and achievements

Audit and inspection of chemical management protocol on large electronics manufacturing plant (including wet chemical processes comprising hydrazine, ammonia, hydrochloric acid) Managing DSE and PPE assessments, first aid and fire training. Designed online chemical datasheet database. Achieved NEBOSH National General Certificate and Associate membership of IOSH.