An experienced HSE Director and Head of Function with over 20 years of experience at that level.  I have an extensive mix of senior management, national and multinational onshore and offshore oil and gas major hazard and marine activities.  I also have significant regulatory experience and more recently international port and logistics operations and due diligence experience.

I am passionate about Health & Safety, employ a people-focused approach and enjoy the challenge of delivering strategies, methodologies and processes to achieve developmental, performance influencing and human factors and cultural improvements, benefitting individuals and organisations.  I take pride in establishing strong and sustainable working relationships across all cultures and organisational levels and have proven experience of doing so in the course of the senior positions that I have held.

I have specific experience of incorporating occupational health, safety, welfare and process risk management into the enterprise risk management of complex organisations and also the development of strong safety cultures.  I build these improvements on sound and informed leadership skills and incorporate the ‘mindful safety leadership’ model I developed when I established my consultancy business.

I undertake a significant amount of safety-related voluntary work which includes five years as the previous Chair of IOSH’s Offshore Safety Group and currently includes guest lecturing at Imperial College, London; Newcastle University; and Northumbria University, Newcastle.  I also undertake speaking engagements and have a strong reputation for communicating and engaging at all levels.