I've been the worker who skipped the permit — and the director who signed it off.
40+ years in the world's most hazardous industries, from a machining shop in 1972 to Managing Director. I earned every qualification the hard way, with a dyslexic brain that forced me to find simpler, more human ways to understand and lead.
Work with me →
Spanner to boardroom.
Most trainers know H&S from one angle. I've lived it from every angle — which is why it lands with any audience, on the shop floor or in the boardroom.
On the tools
Hands-on maintenance technician in the machining shop, working rotating and static equipment. I learned why people cut corners — because I felt the same pressures.
Foreman → Superintendent → Package Manager
Supervised up to 200 staff on sites in Libya. Balanced production targets against safety standards every single day — H&S wasn't a department, it was everyone's job.
Managing Director
Sat on the other side of the table — where safety can become a tick-box exercise. I know exactly how to influence the people who hold the budget.
Master trainer & founder
Diligent Safety Training & Consultancy Ltd — teaching the human, leadership and culture-change side that the qualification pathway never covered.
Mega-project scale, life-or-death stakes.
This isn't classroom theory. It's real-world safety leadership on projects where getting it wrong kills people and shuts down billion-dollar assets.
The dyslexic advantage.
Every other trainer went through the system smoothly and teaches the way they were taught — complicated and jargon-heavy. I fought for every qualification, and my brain found a simpler, more human route in. Then I taught it that way.
| Big-picture thinking | I see the whole safety culture — not just isolated incidents or individual rule breaches. |
|---|---|
| Spatial reasoning | I can mentally model a site, a workflow, a risk scenario in 3D before you ever walk it. |
| Creative problem-solving | I found the shift from enforcement to influence because my brain looks for the unexpected route. |
| Empathy & social intelligence | I read what's really happening in a room or on a site within minutes of arriving. |
| Narrative intelligence | I make H&S land through stories, not statistics. People remember what I say. |
| Resilience | I model the exact mindset I teach. I didn't quit when it was hard — and neither should they. |
More qualifications than most accumulate in a lifetime.
And I've applied every one of them in genuinely high-risk, real-world environments. I am the bridge between the classroom and the workplace.
Every certificate, in full.
Forty years of qualifications across IT, education, rail engineering and the world's highest-risk safety environments — each one earned and applied.
Professional membership
Chartered, certified & full memberships across safety, risk, IT and engineering.
Health, safety & process safety
NEBOSH, IOSH & CITB qualifications applied on live high-hazard projects.
Higher & further education
From a first-class degree to teaching, assessment and rail engineering qualifications.
Award-winning safety leadership.
From the shop floor to the world stage — honoured by industry, press and the global leadership community for putting people, not paperwork, at the centre of safety.
Babcock International EE&A Award
“Never Compromise on Health & Safety.” Presented December 2019 — recognition that tells a story no qualification can: a major organisation looked at how I led and said that is what H&S excellence looks like.
People who have influenced me.
Leadership is a skill you never stop sharpening. I learn from the best across business, psychology, communication and performance — and bring it back to the way I teach safety.
Let's talk about your team.
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