Christopher Forster Email & Phone Number

Uk Onshore

Hexham, Northumberland, United Kingdom

Blyth

- Monitor Health and Safety performance, consult and advise on OHS issues.- Chair and organise safety meetings and brief out to staff results and findings.- Coordinator of Health and Safety best practises across the business unit and region to achieve step change improvements in Health, Safety Culture and awareness.- Assist in managing external and internal safety audit program for ISO and OSHAS accreditations, internal OHS system, and external agency compliance.- Work includes site based coaching and mentoring, safety training, audits, development and implementation of safety procedures. - Organise, award and monitor safety based contracts to assist in the monitoring of staff with regard to lone and isolated working, enhancing personnel utilisation, and tracking of mobile valuable company assets.- Designer of a full and comprehensive COSHH Register, associated assessment forms to enable full compliance to legislation. Development and roll out of training relating to the protection of staff, including the design and formatting of forms used in COSHH Assessments..- Organised, sourced and planned subcontractors to enable full compliance to LOLER over multiple sites in several countries.

Sunderland, United Kingdom; National

- Designing, arranging and delivering Health and Safety courses to meet the requirements of company managers and directors in accordance with company policy and current legislation.- Subjects included First Aid at work, Automated External Defibrillator, IOSH Managing Safely and IOSH Working Safely. Also developed and delivered in-house training courses such as Manual Handling Awareness, Working at Height Awareness, Fire Warden, Fire Risk Assessment, Risk Assessment, DSE Assessor and Accident Investigation.- Duties also included working with regional safety managers to maintain standards across the business in accordance with the safety management system- A key figure in the implementation and accreditation of BS OHSAS 18001.

Antwerp, Belgium. Belfast, Ireland

- Reporting to the Field Resources Manager and supporting the site manager on all Health and Safety related requirements.- Supporting the Health and Safety activities whilst fabricating, installing and the commissioning phases of two offshore 132 Kv substations at Harland Wolf (Belfast) and Fabricom (Antwerp).- Duties included assisting the site manager to manage Health and Safety on site, support any amendments to the construction phase Health and Safety plan, induction requirements, audit and review, method statement and risk assessment, permit to work system, reporting requirements, accident investigation, support for project and site meetings. To instigate, develop and deliver training and toolbox talks according to site and contract requirements.

Level 5 Diploma In Occupational Health And Safety Practice

National General Certificate (Occupational Health And Safety)

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