Consultant Profile

I offer assistance and guidance on the following: accident reporting; accident investigation; corporate manslaughter; corporate responsibility; COSHH assessments; electrical safety; employee engagement; ergonomics; falls from height; fire risk assessments; first aid cover; human factors; inductions; local exhaust ventilation (LEV); maintenance working; manual handling; moving goods; noise at work; office safety; risk assessments; risk management; skin at work; slips, trips and falls; stress; work equipment; working at height; workplace transport.

I offer training on the following: general office safety (can be used for inductions); general workplace safety (can be used for inductions); fire awareness; fire risk assessment, risk assessment, fork-lift truck and warehouse safety, manual handling; noise at work, COSHH, health and safety for computer operators, stress in the workplace, slips / trips / falls, driving safely. The training is delivered by DVD at the employer's premises.

I have had clients in the following industry sectors:- schools (nursery / infant / primary / junior / secondary / academy / community / voluntary aided / voluntary assisted / free schools / pupil referral units), accountancy; bakery; building society; dance and music studios; debt collection agency, electrical contractors; engineering; fish & chip shop, furniture upholstery; garden centre; hardware retail; joinery; manufacturing; newsagent; newspaper / media; post office; plant services, printing; scaffolding; security; supermarket; training; vehicle repair workshop; veterinary surgeons; warehousing; welding and fabrication; wine merchants.

After 38 years in the newspaper / printing industry, I now specialise in health and safety / fire safety for blocks of flats.