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Meet the Team

Name and contact details

Special area of responsibility

Steve Ansell

Health and Safety Adviser

07977 836 042

0118 378 7738

  • Chemicals (Not Laboratories)
  • Display Screen Equipment (policy and regulations)
  • Farms H&S
  • Greenlands H&S
  • Hand/Arm Vibration
  • Home working
  • Noise
  • Portable Appliance Testing
  • PPE - Personal Protective Equipment
  • Respiratory Protective Equipment and face-fit-testing
  • Risk Assessment
  • HSS Liaison Advisor for multiple Schools/Functions (see HSCs list for details)
 

Nick Bathurst

Construction & Estates Health and Safety Adviser

0118 378 7290

  • Capital Project Liaison
  • Construction safety
  • Drones
  • Emergency Preparedness (including exercises)
  • Events
  • Excavation
  • First aid (including Defibrillators)
  • Lifting equipment
  • Local Exhaust Ventilation
  • Machinery safety
  • Management of contractors
  • Manual handling
  • Pressure Systems
  • Tenanted Properties
  • Thames Valley Science Park
  • Work at Height
  • Workplace transport
  • HSS Liaison Advisor for multiple Schools/Functions (see HSCs list for details)
 

Margot Bishop

Assistant Health and Safety Adviser

0118 378 7737

07977 486 554

 

  • Food Safety (including RSU)
  • H&S Learning Programme (including HSC Workshops)
  • HSS website
  • Induction (Policy)
  • Office safety
  • Work-related Stress 
  • HSS Liaison Advisor for multiple Schools/Functions (see HSCs list for details)
 

Wendy Manning

Health & Safety Auditor/Adviser

0118 378 4626

07976 539 612

 

  • Annual H&S Performance Report
  • Audit Programme
  • Fieldwork
  • Maternity 
  • Travel 
  • UoR Malaysia liaison (H&S management arrangements)
  • Violence & Aggression
 

Kevin McGovern

Deputy Fire Safety Adviser

07725 217 289 

0118 378 8409

 

  • Disabled People's H&S
  • Fire Safety
  • First Aider poster coverage
  • Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans
    Fire Drills
  • Fire Warden coverage
  • Thermal comfort (indoors)
  • Thermal comfort (outdoors) and sunburn protection

 

Jenny McGrother

Director

07580 263 879

0118 378 8889

 

 
  • CoP/SN revision programme
  • H&S/Environmental Management Systems interaction
  • H&S incident investigation management
  • H&S Management arrangements
  • H&S performance indicators
  • Liaison with Enforcing Authorities
  • RIDDOR Compliance
  • Senior leadership coaching
  • Lone, peripatetic and remote working
  • Outside Hours working
  • Driver and vehicle safety
 

Lucy McNeil

Health & Safety Team Administrator

0118 378 8888

 

 
  • Allocation of Incidents for Investigation
  • Committee Secretary for RSSC & SCBS
  • Display Screen Equipment (operation of Cardinus software)
  • Financial Transactions
  • HSC for Planning, Governance & Legal
  • HSS website
  • Training bookings

Billy Gibbens

Asbestos & Safety Compliance Advisor

07929 716 675

0118 378 8275

 

 
  • Confined Spaces
  • Legionella
  • Management of asbestos
  • Permit to Work
 

Jonathan Ridgeon

Scientific Safety Adviser

07595 091 625

 
 
  • Biological Safety (Including Genetic Modification)
  • Carriage of Dangerous Goods
  • Chemicals (Laboratories)
  • Electro-Magnetic Fields
  • Laboratory Safety
  • Laser
  • Nano materials
  • Radiation Safety (open, sealed, X-rays)
  • Research Project Approval
  • Statutory Annual Declarations (Scientific)
  • HSS Liaison Advisor for multiple Schools/Functions (see HSCs list for details)
 

David Sharp

Fire Safety Adviser

07980 703 033

0118 378 8282

 

 
  • Dangerous Substances & Explosive Atmospheres Regulations
  • Dust
  • Evacuation Chairs (training & maintenance)
  • Fire Risk Assessment
  • Fire Safety
  • Fire suppressant systems
  • Fertilizer Storage

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