Blind Safety Guy

hnically experts in their field but do not have the right level of competencies in health and safety.
- Small businesses who do not have the spare time or resources (funds or personnel) to handle the extra demand of health and safety administration.
- Small business which have not aligned their operations with the new demands in law, technology or their main contractors / clients to evidence their health and safety practice.
- Small businesses who due to impairment such as dyslexia or other learning difficulties are not able to keep up to speed with health and safety paperwork demands. Language skills can also be a barrier which I can help avoid. On route to becoming a professional health and safety practitioner, I found especially during my post-graduate studies and dissertation that small businesses are disadvantaged and so I set about to do my part to help the small businesses who find H&S a challenge. What I will do for you is simple:

- Round-the-clock health and safety guidance, information and sign-posting.
- Answering those seemingly complex health and safety questions.
- Free gap analysis of your current health and safety risk management system.
- Identification of your health and safety related training needs.
- Help to highlight your areas of skills and knowledge and experiences and relating these to your health and safety competency. I fell into the world of health and safety risk management by chance and I have embraced it. Through my work experience with a nationally recognised health and safety assessment scheme I have come to appreciate another side in the health and safety risk management industry and practice. Safety Schemes In Procurements (SSIP) forum scheme members conduct reviews through presented evidence paperwork supplied by contractors in order to determine if they operate their health and safety to an accepted practice standard. These types of schemes are often known as health and safety pre-qualification assessment schemes and my findings in my dissertation during my postgraduate masters degree gave me a wider and clearer perspective. As I have come to know that by combining the demands of main legislation and sub-legislations into a health and safety management system package for small companies, they can make life so much easier for their businesses; I help those I can where possible by deriving an approach which will work for them. If you are a small business wanting to complete pre-qualification tender questionnaires and need help to understand questions being asked, I can help you:

- Generate your own personalised health and safety risk assessments and method statements.
- Be your competent source for health and safety guidance.
- Support you to complete main contractor and health and safety schemes health and safety questionnaires. Clear Vision Safety is an inexpensive and sometimes cost free approach to me supporting you where I can with information, guidance and advice therefore you reduce the burden of deciding between developing and implementing H&S systems and commercial viability of your business with the added bonus of remaining competitive. After completing my NEBOSH general certificate and post-graduate masters degree in Safety, Health and Environment (MSc SHE), I have now also achieved my graduate status of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (Grad IOSH) so now heading for chartered status. Now continuing as a professional health and safety practitioner and earning my badges all the way to achieving chartered member status of IOSH (CMIOSH) – www.iosh.co.uk. I am also completing the NEBOSH construction certificate conversion course, my portfolio and range of practical health and safety related work will make a contribution. I am unique in wanting to be amongst the few severely sight impaired (blind) health and safety practitioners blazing the H&S trail in the United Kingdom and maybe even beyond. My sensory impairment and medical condition Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO) has ensured that I commit some time to assisting some charity organisations by volunteering for them:

- Croydon Vision by helping to review their annual audit checklist and providing guidance where needed.
- Supporting MS Society Croydon group as their volunteer health and safety advisor.
- Support the responsible health and safety officer at my local minster church with questions concerning health and safety risk management when required. As my aim ultimately is to attain CMIOSH status and maybe more, criteria sets of the IOSH Initial Professional Development (IPD) pathway also forms a basis for types of support I will seek to provide using Clear Vision Safety. These services are:

- Support process of using a management system to initiate, develop or promote health and safety policy within your business.
- Within the health and safety policy help use goals and performance targets to arrange and apply the safety policy.
- Support the engagement of your workforce in the promotion of a positive health and safety culture.
- Identify and implement methods for communicating safety information to your workforce, internal and external engagements.
- Identify health and safety risk areas unique to your business area identified from legislations and industry standard and support to implement control measures using appropriate tools and techniques. So if you have a small business and feel that you can do with developing any aspect of what I have identified, then feel free to contact me and I will be delighted to assist where possible. As a home owner or domestic client, you too may have questions for contractor, builders and decorators you engage with in order to determine if they have safe working practices.