Managing by understanding operational needs, creating, and keeping people safe are my passions. I am a Graduate Member of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and I hold an MSc (Dist.) in H&S (IOSH accredited) from Leeds Beckett University. The Masters' curriculum takes a deep dive into human behaviour, motivation and safety practices predicated on sensible risk management. I build relationships with co-workers based on a lifetime of finding pragmatic solutions in IT, Retail, Hospitality, Construction, Education (working with young people with special educational needs, different abilities and disadvantaged backgrounds), and Building Services.I pride myself in offering proportionate, effective, and commercially aware Work and Safety Solutions, Ideas, Risk Management, Compliance, and Training. My default setting is 'approachable, curious and active'. My skills are fresh and current, my attitude is mature and considered, and I believe fundamentally that as H&S professionals we should focus on preserving the health of people, if you do that you will achieve compliance in synergy.Most recently I was appointed to programme and deliver a transition to the largest newly-built primary educational setting in Yorkshire, a £13.2 million pound 6.5-acre site situated at Silsden in the beautiful Aire Valley on the North and West Yorkshire border near Skipton. Now completed and in April was judged 'Good' by Ofsted only weeks after opening, a very satisfying, almost unparalleled outcome.My other great passion and hobby is craft and heritage restoration. A recent project was featured by Time-Out Magazine (our 'Falling Water' woodland retreat at Ponden Mill heritage site in Haworth, West Yorkshire) as one of its top five attractions. Falling Water also featured on Channel 4's George Clarke's Amazing Spaces. I am also a luthier and instrument repairer.