Andy Ward Email & Phone Number

Merseyside, England, United Kingdom

Partnering with the Yodel Sortation and Engineering teams to support them on their safety journey whilst also acting as Dangerous Goods Safety Advisor for operational sites

Merseyside, England, United Kingdom

Remote/Hybrid

• Due to commitment and achievements exhibited in previous roles, secured a new role to deliver overall safety systems and policy following changes within parent group and impact of BREXIT
• Managed and co-ordinated changes as they arose and kept stakeholders focused on the agreed change outcomes and benefits. This included developing a new integrated management system aligned to organisation changes.
• Employed strong communication skills to establish relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including insurance carriers for the motor vehicle, employer and public- liability cover; recognised for.
• Served as trusted advisor to the central customer team by providing dangerous goods advice for new business growth in a multimodal context
• Utilised expertise to develop new performance management dashboards to present lagging and leading indicators to site leadership teams and senior business leaders. Supported with decision making by providing.
• Directed a global incident review panel to ensure root causes and a just and fair culture was executed across organisational learnings

United Kingdom

• Served as safety consultant for an existing customer commissioning their new NDC in West Yorkshire
• Post contract wins, held accountability for Ireland, tasked with building a new site in Dublin
• Secured a secondment to Gist BV business in the Netherlands to provide expert support for the expansion of the EU business, including the opening of Prague and Paris operations
• Selected to undertake a secondment to a new start-up in Seattle, USA, targeted to perform due diligence and start-up of safety systems for a 1m sq. ft. distribution site serving North America & APAC regions for a.
• Directed all major incident investigations, including severe and fatal road traffic collisions within the UK, Ireland, and EU business areas. As lead investigator also acted as the interface with Linde AG in reporting.
• Managed all HAZOP change for process improvements with the aim of mitigating rollover of large goods vehicles, alternative vehicle fuels and deployment of DfT extra-long vehicle trials

Rating within Warfare branch. Initially 4 years as MW then remainder as Sea rating.Spent time as instructor at reserve unit and Raleigh including ceremonial instructor (Dryad POAW04-2000)

Safety advice to home shopping channels including call centres, warehousing, trunking operations. Also to home delivery operations in UK & Ireland. Shopping channel including high street clearance stores. Role included management of team administrator.

Safety advisor within multi-channel home shopping organisation including warehouses, call centres, parcel depots.TUPE'd to ShopDirect when Reality purchased by SDG

Site based H&S and training officer within food factory. In addition to providing safety support to the management team of a busy frozen desserts factory was also responsible for delivery of training to all employees at site on operational tasks as well as on safety areas.Involved in investigations into incidents, machinery safety and deputising for Group.

Luton, United Kingdom

Coordinator for General Assembly. Role required supporting manufacturing operations in delivering safety across the assembly operations including accident investigations, machinery safety assessment, chemical assessment, training delivery ensuring that all elements of GM Europe Safety agenda where in place.

Postgraduate Certificate, Organisational Health & Wellbeing Research Methods

School of Health & Medicine, Division for Health Research

Diploma, Accident Investigation

Msc, Environment, Health & Safety

Bsc (Hons), Manufacturing Operations Management