I have been in the scaffolding industry since 1975, I worked on numerous power stations as a labourer,Improver and Scaffolder till 1981,I then decided to gain further knowledge of the Scaffolding industry I worked on offshore oil and gas rigs in the North Sea ,Egypt,Norway and Brunie till 1998,after the boom had finished I worked on various new build projects and shutdowns till present ,I first started in a Supervisory position in 1990 whist offshore for a company called ASL Scaffolding from Lowerstoft and since then I have held varios positions as a Site Manager,General Foreman,Senior Supervisor and Supervisor for various companies.I have been with DSL since May 2006 till present on various projects and currently I am on Drax Power Station as the Site Manager, I believe the health and safety of the workforce is paramount but also budgets and completion targets can be achieved without the health and safety of the employees being compromised.I am reliable,hard working and have a positive outlook and try to ignore any negativity in what I go out to achieve for any Company that I have been employed by,I have good commercial knowledge from in putting percentages from a Scaffolding schedule for a QS to formulate a valuation,scoping and quoting Scaffolding works on a schedule of rates or where the Client has requested a quote.