Health and Safety Works

We believe in using Health and Safety as a tool to improve your business practices and increase efficiency. Effective review and improvement of procedures within the business can increase morale and reduce the risk of unnecessary downtime and costs.

Health and Safety Process - Audit, Policy, Organising, Plan and Implement, Measure, Review

The key to achieving these benefits is a pragmatic and realistic approach to analysing business processes, working safely and more effectively.

New safety practices need buy in throughout the organisation and we work with both the senior management team and all employees to design and implement changes with an open and honest approach.

Choosing your health and safety partner is a key part of this process and we are proud to work with clients across all business sectors throughout Cambridgeshire, East Anglia and London and our Consultants have particular expertise with Biotech, Food Science, HiTech and Laboratory environments together with office, the building industry and industrial workplaces.

Health and Safety Works Principal Consultants

David Oates

Following a degree in biochemistry, David Oates gained extensive experience within food chemistry, cell and molecular biology, project management and property refurbishment, becoming a Member of the Institute of Biology, a Chartered Biologist, a Corporate member of IOSH and gaining recognition on the IOSH Register of Safety Practitioners.

Having worked with safety since the introduction of the COSHH regulations in 1988 David has a particular specialism in the scientific environment with key projects and experience including:

  • Setting up H&S at the Sanger Centre at Hinxton Hall.
  • Safety Adviser at Virco who undertook Phyenotyping and Genotyping HIV patients.
  • Safety Adviser at Imutran where the research was in pig heart transplantation.
  • Involved in Research and Safety with the ICRF Tumor Virus group who were attempting to find a vaccine for Human Papilloma Virus.
  • Worked for The Cancer Reserch Council on DNA repair.
  • Six years experience of analytical food chemistry.

My project management experience has been gained in organising remedial work for roads and sewers on David Wilson Home sites, plus the refurbishment of laboratories and offices.

Published Papers

Collins, Andrew and Oates, David J.

Hydroxyurea: effects of deoxyribonucleotide pool sizes correlated with effects of DNA repair in mammalian cells.

European Journal Biochem. 169, 299-305, 1987.

Storey, A., Oates, D., Banks, L., Crawford, L. and Crook, T.

Anti-sense phosphorothioate oligonucleotides have both specific and non-specific effects on cells containing human papillomavirus type 16.

Nuc.Acids Res. 19, 4109-4114, 1991.

Squires, S., Oates, D. J., Bouffler, S. D., and Johnson,R. T.

Cockayne's Syndrome fibroblasts are characterised by hypersensitivity to deoxyguanosine and abnormal DNA precursor pool metabolism in response to either deoxyguanosine or ultraviolet light.

Somatic Cell and Molecular Genetics. Vol 18, No 5, 387-401, 1992.

Jennie Oates

Jennie Oates has proven skills in Regulatory, Quality Assurance and Quality Control in the Laboratory environment and has particular experience in:

  • Document control, initiation, review and approval of manufacturing and technical documentation.
  • Regulatory approvals obtained for products in world wide territories.
  • Registration of products to IVD Directive (CE marking).
  • MSDS assessment and product labelling knowledge.
  • Trained ISO 13485 Internal auditor converted from ISO 9001.
  • Senior member of host team for audits performed by external bodies (ISO accreditation, Notified Body for the IVD Directive, GMP, customers and Health and Safety)
  • Experience of liaising with regulatory authorities, Notified Body, customers and subsidiary/distributor colleagues.
  • Health and Safety management.

Health and Safety Projects

Since September we have been working closely with Aatec Services Ltd on an office fit out for Medimmune on Granta Park.

Medimmune's American safety managers visisted the site and decided on the standards that we had to implement.  This included printed RA & MS's for all activities to be signed daily, regular site inspections, tool box talks and stringent PPE requirements.  Throughout the project all staff and contractors involved cooperated with the very high safety requirements and documention.

The site was very well run by Aatec Services Ltd, with the help for Safety provided by us.  This was a 26 week project with 2 safety crane lifts, one involving the air conditioning plant and another an external spiral staircase extension to the roof level.

Throughout the whole project there was no minor or lost time accidents.

Recent Articles

Occupational Safety and Health Consultants Register - OSHCR

MAR

22nd

 

The aim of this register is to help businesses find advice on managing their general health and safety risks. The register is only open to those health and safety consultants who have met certain standards within their professional bodies.

Part of the Government's review of H&S undertaken by Lord Young was that there should be a register for qualified consultants.
The register is now operational and HSW Ltd are pleased to be part of that register in that as Director of HSW Ltd I am on the register.

So now as David Oates CMIOSH CBiol MSB I can use the following logos with my name.

 

 

December Update

DEC

09th

HSW Ltd has undertaken work for the following new clients over the last few months;

This includes forklift risk assessment for Halspan based in Essex, a safety review for Rand Europe, CoSHH training for Suffolk Constabulary, IOSH Working Safely for St. Faiths School in Cambridge, 2 air monitoring projects one for Isocyanates and styrene (see projects for more information), S&P Electrical contractors have appointed HSW Ltd to look after their Health and Safety, finally Wesley Coe based in Ely appointed us to carry out a Health and Safety audit, DSEAR, CoSHH and PUWER Risk Assessments.


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