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Making Health and Safety Work

Reduce risks, reduce costs; increase productivity and improve relationships within the business. Making Health and Safety Work for your business is what we do.

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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.

Health and Safety Process - Audit, Policy, Organising, Plan and Implement, Measure, Review

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 commitment 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, London and the UK. Our Consultants have particular expertise with Laboratories, Pharma, Biotech, Food Science, HiTech, Manufacturing and Renewable Energy environments together with office, the building industry and industrial workplaces.

Health and Safety Works Principal Consultants

David Oates - Institute of Occupational Safety and Health Chartered Safety and Health Practitioner

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.

Richard Morgan - Institute of Occupational Safety and Health Chartered Safety and Health Practitioner

Richard Morgan

Was previously a principal inspector with the Health and Safety Executive, inspecting manufacturing, utility and service industries across Great Britain.

He was Elected Fellow of IOSH (FIOSH) in 2005 and was awarded IOSH President's 'Distinguished Service Certificate for Services to Health and Safety' in 2013.

His experience includes:

  • Advisory and enforcement health and safety inspections, auditing and investigations in:
    • heavy industry (nuclear power stations, electricity/gas supply, heavy engineering/steelworks etc).
    • medium industry (engineering/metalworking, woodworking, food/drink production, plastics etc).
    • light industry, including transport, warehousing and supply chain issues.
  • Specialist in multi-site food and drink manufacture.
  • Occupational health issues in all industries/sectors (dust/fume, cancer, noise, ergonomics, skin disease etc).
  • Inspecting Schools and National Trust properties.
Jennie Oates - Institute of Occupational Safety and Health Chartered Safety and Health Practitioner

Jennie Oates

Jennie Oates has joined full time working as Company secretary along with her Directorship of our new sister Company Quality Management Works.

Using many years experience of implementing and managing Quality and Regulatory requirements in the in vitro diagnostic Medical Devices (IVD) industry Quality Management Works is looking to support companies implement compliant systems to meet their business needs.

Whilst Medical Devices is a specialist area support for companies using or implementing a Quality Management System to ISO 9001 can also be provided.

Laura Tull - Institute of Occupational Safety and Health Chartered Safety and Health Practitioner

Laura Tull

Has gained varied experience, across a range of service and manufacturing industries. Laura started her career as a Safety administrator working her way up to Group QHSE Advisor, now for one of the largest Renewables service contractors in East Anglia.

Her strengths lie in helping businesses meet, maintain, and improve their regulatory compliance - providing them with the tools, processes and required information to achieve best practice for their business area. Believing that Safety does not need to be over complicated.

Her experience includes:

  • Assisting project teams in the safe and efficient delivery of projects within the Renewable Energy industry (construction and Ops & Maintenance), Manufacturing, Warehousing, and low risk environments such as Offices.
  • Inspection and audit of Sites (Offices, Warehouses, Retail, Construction Sites) to assist and observe areas of best practice, areas of weakness in legal compliance and or approval requirements.
  • Helping businesses achieve and maintain approvals such as ISO 18001 / 14001 & 9001.
  • Review and creation of CDM documentation for Principal Contractors.
  • Review and stream lining of Safety Management Systems.
Wendy Grocock - Associate Member of Institute of Occupational Safety and Health

Wendy Grocock

Has a background in science, having worked in research within the biotechnology and academic sectors as a laboratory-based scientist in cancer research, before moving into management and Health and Safety roles.

Strengths lie in scientific and laboratory environments, including Biological Safety and COSHH. Providing advice for safe working practices within laboratories, documentation audit and review of risk assessments, COSHH and technical documentation. As well as generic Health and Safety within office environments, such as DSE, Manual Handling, Lone Working and general policy development.

Her experience includes:

  • Developing laboratory H&S policies and guidance.
  • Review H&S for new research projects.
  • Holding the position of Biological Safety Officer.
  • Working with staff of all levels.
  • Working with HR and OH regarding Health Surveillance.
  • Developing estates and facilities H&S policies.
Joe Hillman - Associate Member of Institute of Occupational Safety and Health

Joe Hillman

Joe joined the team in October 202.He has a background in chemistry, many years' experience in laboratory management and H&S roles at various drug research companies across the Oxford-Cambridge areas.

Joe's specific skills are laboratory chemical, biosafety and radioisotope safety working with many organisations at all levels to review and improve H&S culture across the whole of their business.

His experience includes:

  • Chemical and General Safety expertise.
  • First Aid, Fire Safety and Spill team roles.
  • Handling of cryogenics and gas cylinders.
  • DSE, manual handling and occupational health surveillance.
  • Written and reviewed H&S documentation.
  • Management, set up, relocation and refit of laboratories.

Health and Safety Projects

Recent Articles

Monday 19th September 2022

Following the sad death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, we will be closing on September 19th in line with the announced bank holiday, for her majestys funeral. We will be working as normal on Tuesday. Thank you for your service ma'am. 

Making Safety Work: Wellbeing

2019 - 2020 observed 55% of all lost working days attributed to work related mental ill health. Workload, lack of support, violence, threats or bullying and changes at work are estimated to be the main causes of work-related stress, depression or anxiety based on 2009/10-2011/12 LFS data. This shows a marked increase over previous years. 

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