Health and Safety Works

We believe in using Health and Safety as a tool to improve your business practices and increase efficiency. Effective review and improvement of procedures within the business can increase morale and reduce the risk of unnecessary downtime and costs.

The key to achieving these benefits is a pragmatic and realistic approach to analysing business processes, working safely and more effectively.

New safety practices need buy in throughout the organisation and we work with both the senior management team and all employees to design and implement changes with an open and honest approach.

Choosing your health and safety partner is a key part of this process and we are proud to work with clients across all business sectors throughout Cambridgeshire, East Anglia and London and our Consultants have particular expertise with Biotech, Food Science, HiTech and Laboratory environments together with office, the building industry and industrial workplaces.

Health and Safety Works Principal Consultants

David Oates

Following a degree in biochemistry, David Oates gained extensive experience within food chemistry, cell and molecular biology, project management and property refurbishment, becoming a Member of the Institute of Biology, a Chartered Biologist, a Corporate member of IOSH and gaining recognition on the IOSH Register of Safety Practitioners.

Having worked with safety since the introduction of the COSHH regulations in 1988 David has a particular specialism in the scientific environment with key projects and experience including:

• Setting up H&S at the Sanger Centre at Hinxton Hall.
• Safety Adviser at Virco who undertook Phyenotyping and Genotyping HIV patients.
• Safety Adviser at Imutran where the research was in pig heart transplantation.
• Involved in Research and Safety with the ICRF Tumor Virus group who were attempting to find a vaccine for Human Papilloma Virus.
• Worked for The Cancer Reserch Council on DNA repair.
• Six years experience of analytical food chemistry.

My project management experience has been gained in organising remedial work for roads and sewers on David Wilson Home sites, plus the refurbishment of laboratories and offices.

Published Papers

Jennie Oates

Jennie Oates has proven skills in Regulatory, Quality Assurance and Quality Control in the Laboratory environment and has particular experience in:

• Document control, initiation, review and approval of manufacturing and technical documentation.
• Regulatory approvals obtained for products in world wide territories.
• Registration of products to IVD Directive (CE marking).
• MSDS assessment and product labelling knowledge.
• Trained ISO 13485 Internal auditor converted from ISO 9001.
• Senior member of host team for audits performed by external bodies (ISO accreditation, Notified Body for the IVD Directive, GMP, customers and Health and Safety)
• Experience of liaising with regulatory authorities, Notified Body, customers and subsidiary/distributor colleagues.
• Health and Safety management.