Head of Health Safety Environment and Quality
Space Engineering Services Limited
Total years of experience :30 years, 6 Months
• Responsible for Space Engineering Services on all Health, Safety Environmental and Quality matters
• Ensuring the business is compliant with applicable Health and Safety and Environmental legislation and industry best practice
• Setting of HSEQ Targets and Objectives through an agreed strategy plan to drive continual improvement
• Produce detailed documentation and reports to the board of directors
• Ensure the HSEQ strategy, management systems, policies and plans contribute to the business objectives.
• Responsible for the management systems in accordance with the following accreditations BS9001, BS14001 and BS18001
• Maintain external accreditations as required by clients including Safe Contractor, Altius, Considerate Constructors and Sedex, amongst others
• Develop and deliver internal courses as applicable to upskill employees and subcontractors on relevant topics
• Have overall accountability for HSEQ investigations and their outcomes
• Chairman of national and regional safety meetings
• Represent Space Engineering Services at Client forums and be actively involved in working groups to develop industry leading practices and promote Space Engineering Services as industry leaders
• Manage day to day operational aspects of the HSEQ department
• Manage a team of six direct reports
• Monitor and collate reactive and proactive data to identify trends and implement actions accordingly
• Develop safe systems of work and associated risk assessments
• Delegate tasks and involve others to ensure any actions are completed with suitable and sufficient control measures
• Liaise with enforcement bodies and insurance company as required
• Ensure premises and sites are registered with the Environment Agency where required and applicable licenses maintained
• Total Responsibility for the day to day Management of Health and Safety and Security for a Fast Moving Consumer Goods manufacturing business with a workforce of one hundred and five
• Assist the Works Director to ensure legislative compliance complete with corrective actions and recommendations when necessary
• Ensure the Board of Directors are regularly informed of key health and safety issues and to advise of any impending legislation updates that may effect the business
• Provision of professional specialist advice, support and guidance on complex health and safety matters to staff at all levels, including those that provide health and safety advice internally and externally to organisations and stakeholders. This will include responding to requests for assistance, or following audits/ inspections/ incident investigations that highlight issues that require improvement
• Promote and participate in multi-disciplinary training, focusing upon health and safety aimed at ensuring new and existing staff fully understand the part they must play in Health and Safety and Risk Management
• Conducting detailed incident investigations with root cause analysis that include corrective actions and recommendations to prevent reoccurrences
• EHS Support for the construction of new build factory
• Ensuring the organisation is compliant to current United Kingdom legislation in Health Safety and Environment
• Responsible for the updating of the Health and Safety management system
• Driver of the continuous improvement plan in the Health and Safety
• Devise and delivering internal health and safety campaigns including internal training packages covering a range of Health & Safety topics to create a sustainable process
• Chairman of the Senior Health and Safety Management Committee
• Chairman of the Works Health and Safety Committee
Design and implementation of a new Risk Assessment process and procedure to include:
• New ease of access Risk Assessment tool
• Inventory of all Risk Assessments
• Renewing all Risk Assessments on the new process
• Training of all Risk Assessor (Leaving a sustainable process)
• Total Responsibility for the Management of Health and Safety and Security for a manufacturing paper mill with a workforce of three hundred
• Assist the Works Operations Director to ensure legislative compliance complete with corrective actions and recommendations when necessary
• Ensure the Senior Management are regularly informed of key health and safety issues and to advise of any impending legislation updates that with effect the business
• Provision of professional specialist advice, support and guidance on complex health and safety matters to staff at all levels, including those that provide health and safety advice internally and externally to organisations and stakeholders. This will include responding to requests for assistance, or following audits/ inspections/ incident investigations that highlight issues that require improvement
• Promote and participate in multi-disciplinary training, focusing upon health and safety aimed at ensuring new and existing staff fully understand the part they must play in Health and Safety and Risk Management
• Conducting detailed incident investigations with root cause analysis that include corrective actions and recommendations to prevent reoccurrences
• Ensuring the organisation is compliant to current United Kingdom legislation
• Responsible and Accountable for the Departmental Budget
• Devise and delivering internal health and safety campaigns including internal training packages covering a range of Health & Safety topics
• Chairman of the Senior Health and Safety Management
• Seconded to manage health and safety on the rebuild project of Blast Furnace No4 (Largest construction project in Europe) from October 2012 to July 2013.
• Responsible and accountable for health and safety of a workforce of four hundred and fifty personnel on the demolition and rebuild construction project
• Support and guidance to the project management team
• Accountable and responsible for four project health and safety officers
Project Health and Safety Manager for the Rebuild of Blast Furnace Number Four Tata Steelworks, Port Talbot, South Wales.
August 2011- July 2012
June 2004 - July 2012
Responsible for the Management of Health and Safety on a Comah Tier one site with a workforce of one hundred and twenty
Ensuring Health and Safety compliance to current legislation and to the client's standards and procedures
Ensuring Environmental compliance to current legislation
Support and guidance for two Health and Safety Officers
Responsible for administrating, monitoring, assessing and reviewing the Health and Safety training requirements of site personnel to ensure competency levels are achieved
Undertake detailed Health and Safety audits to ensure company has full compliance with current legislation
Member off the Rowecord Engineering Senior Health and Safety Committee
Chair / Facilitator of Health & Safety committee meetings
Carry out detailed investigations into accidents and incidents as per Health and SG245 and ensure implementation of corrective and long term preventative actions
Create and deliver Health and Safety Campaign presentations to employees
Create and cascade Health and Safety Red Stripes
Create and deliver Health and Safety presentations to the Client and fellow contractors
Devise and delivering internal training packages covering a range of Health & Safety topics
Devise and delivering internal training packages for Engineering plant and equipment
A member of a dedicated team who carry out high level risk assessments
Create and carry out the review of Job Method Statements and Risk Assessments
Produce safe working instructions and safe working procedures
Collate and Present Health and Safety key performance indicators at monthly meeting with client
Produce and cascade Health and Safety toolbox talks to employees
Produce and cascade Health and Safety red stripes to employees
Monitor and audit Health and Safety performance at supervisory level
Carry out Drug and Alcohol Testing of Employees.
Rowecord Engineering Limited
Health and Safety Officer based in Tata Steelworks, Port Talbot, South Wales.
June 2003 - June 2004
Responsible for administrating, monitoring, assessing and reviewing the health and safety training requirements of site personnel to ensure competency levels are achieved
Undertake Health and Safety audits to ensure company has full compliance with current legislation
Completing detailed investigations into incidents and ensure implementation of corrective and long term preventative actions
Cascade health and safety toolbox talks to employees and cascade health and safety red stripes to employees
Carry out daily audits on engineering activities on site
Carry out the Inspection of lifting equipment to LOLER 1998
Carry out the Inspection of plant and equipment to PUWER1998.
Additional Career Information
Site Co-ordinator Rowecord Engineering Ltd 2002 - 2003
Stores Manager Rowecord Engineering Ltd 2001 - 2002
Aircraft Mechanic British Airways Maintenance Cardiff 1998 - 2001
Maintenance Fitter Rail freight Services Engineering Ltd 1994 - 1998
Engineering Planner Hayes Engineering Ltd 1992 - 1994
Production Planner Powell Duffryn Wagon 1991 - 1992
Apprentice Fitter / Turner Powell Duffryn Wagon 1987 - 1991
Personal Details and Interests
Spending time with Family
Full unblemished UK Driving Licence,
Own transport,