Joscelyne, as head of policy, sits within the British Safety Council’s policy and communications team. For more than half a century, the British Safety Council has been a trusted guide to world-leading health, safety and environmental best practice. We achieve this with a strong evidence base, sharing information, supporting, advising, educating and campaigning. Through educating millions of workers we have made hundreds of thousands of workplaces safer. We are a not-for-profit membership organisation.

Before joining the British Safety Council, Joscelyne was a research consultant working across health, safety and environmental management and risk communication. She was involved in the development of reporting and benchmarking tools on good health and safety performance, as well as case studies on business benefits and the value of leadership for the Health and Safety Executive, designed to raise the profile of health and safety within the business and risk management agenda. She has an MSc from Lund University, Sweden in environmental management and policy and a BA (Hons) from the University of Cape Town, South Africa

I started out as a warehouse operative in 1988 and have worked my way through a series of blue and white collar roles in Warehousing, Transport, Supply Chain IT, Planning / Forecasting and Inventory Management positions. Having 18 years’ experience in a finished goods distribution environment, I’ve now moved into a manufacturing environment. The principles are the same, but the challenges are very different.

Nick Joined AkzoNobel in August 2013. He previously worked for the Ahlstrom Corporation where he was the UK HSE Manager and Corporate auditor, His major success was seeing one of his sites go 7 years without a lost time injury; this result was delivered by initiating a good reporting system which was immersed in continuous improvement which involved all personnel. He also served with Lothian and Borders Fire and Rescue service for 14 years in the retained service and applied the tools which he used in the work place to assist in keeping his colleagues safe on the fire ground.

Mike Belson is currently Regional Environmental Health and Safety Director at Caterpillar. He is one of a few EHS professionals who actually designed his EHS career from an early stage – gaining Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in EHS related disciplines (1989 and 1990 respectively) and also gaining the NEBOSH Diploma in Occupational Safety and Health in 1995. Mike has worked for a number of different business sectors in his 24 years as an EHS professional – including engineering, manufacturing, mineral extraction and construction.

In his current role, Mike Belson is responsible for a small dedicated team of professionals who provide leadership, strategic direction and tactical support to facility operations in Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia Pacific and Latin America.

Mike’s team creates, alters and socialises EHS policies and programmes that materially affect the lives of Caterpillar employees at more than 150 facilities across these regions. In addition Mike and his team are driving and delivering the EHS cultural transformation process within Caterpillar, towards ever increasing levels of maturity. Mike is responsible for driving environmental stewardship in the regions as well as being focussed on ensuring that every employee goes home from work safely, everyday – reflecting Caterpillar’s  Global EHS Teams common purpose – To Protect The Most Important Things In Life. Everywhere. Every Day!

Mike lives in Loughborough in the UK with his Wife and Daughter.

Tony Wallis has a wide depth and breadth of experience in all aspects of the automotive and materials handling industry, Tony Wallis, Toyota Material Handling UK’s Sales and Marketing Director and previously Operations Director has worked for some of the world’s most respected manufacturers including Toyota and Volvo.

Tony has a strong track record in improving business performance and developing teams that deliver volume, profit and customer service. Tony has a specialist understanding of the Toyota Production System and how it can be applied in manufacturing and non-manufacturing environments which has developed a passion for process development, its application to all types of business and the tools that can help companies to eliminate waste and drive down costs

Richard has been based at the aerospace engineering site in Plymouth for 17 years having previously worked for British Aerospace in Toulouse and Yorkshire TV in Leeds. Qualified in both Facilities Management and Environment Health & Safety, Richard is responsible for the delivery of the site`s EHS performance and has implemented many health related initiatives over recent years. Working with local organisations Richard has implemented low cost solutions to provide fellow employees and families with fitness and wellbeing facilities.

Richard and his team in the EHS Dept have recently won the national EEF Future Manufacturing Award for H&S and have previously been finalists in the National Business Awards. He is Chair of the Plymouth Manufacturing Group Committee on Sustainability and the Chair of the Western Region of the Defence Industry Security Association.

Joscelyne, as head of policy, sits within the British Safety Council’s policy and communications team. For more than half a century the British Safety Council has been a trusted guide to excellent health, safety and environmental management. We have educated millions of workers and made hundreds of thousands of workplaces safer for everyone. We do this by sharing information, supporting, advising, educating and campaigning. We are a not-for-profit organisation.

Before joining the British Safety Council, she was a research consultant working across health, safety and environmental management and risk communication. Some key work she lead involved developing reporting and benchmarking tools, as well as case studies on business benefits and the value of leadership for the Health and Safety Executive that helped to raise the profile of health and safety within the business and risk management agenda. She has an MSc from Lund University, Sweden in Environmental Management and Policy, and a BA (Hons) from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Present, Motivational speaker on accident and injury prevention in the work place and changing behaviours and attitudes towards health and safety in the working environment. Benefiting all by a implementing a safer working culture.

Finlay Graham is a Chartered Safety Practitioner who started his career as an Army paramedic, in the late 80’s.  During his military career he changed employment to Environmental Health, specializing in Health and Safety.  On leaving the Military his first employment was with a Local Authority as an enforcement officer, whilst there an opportunity arose to move in to an operational Health and Safety manufacturing role.  Through the next 20 + years Finlay progressed through various roles increasing in size and seniority with companies such as Nestle, BSkyB both nationally and internationally.  Following 7 years in the Middle East, Finlay returned 2 years ago to work with GKN Land Systems as their Global HSE & Risk Director.  He has a fantastic Global team that provides expert advice and guidance to over 50 factories, workshops and service centers worldwide. GKN is a British Global engineering business with nearly 50,000 employees worldwide with a turnover of approximately £7bn.  When Finlay is not travelling he lives in Troon, Scotland, plays golf and spends time with his wife and 5 children.

Andy Melachrino has been in a head of health safety role for 16 years starting in the food industry 31 years ago with Spillers Pet Foods and over 19 years with them held various positions from Operations, to Information Security to Risk Manager Europe which included being head of health safety and environment, when it became Nestle Purina. He then spent 4 years with United Biscuits as head of health safety and environment across their European business from 2002 until 2006. He joined Dairy Crest in Jan 2007 as Head of Group Health and Safety, where he is today. Gaining Nebosh diplomas in health safety and environment, and an MSc in Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety Management from Portsmouth University in 2005, his key focus has always been keeping the message and programmes simple and focussed on leadership, engagement and standards, which are underpinned by safe behaviours. He is chair of the Dairy UK Occupational Health and Safety Committee and Vice Chair of the IOSH Food and Drink Group.

Scott Daniell is the Environmental, Health and Safety Leader at GE Aviation’s, aircraft engine overhaul shop based in Nantgarw, South Wales, UK.

Scott started his career in EHS in 2005, having graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Risk Management from the University of Wales, Cardiff. Scott has worked within the EHS sector for nine years starting as out on the GE internship program for the site that he now leads. During the early part of his career, Scott specialized in environmental permit control and ISO 14001 accreditations and studied for NEBOSH certificates before transgressing into a broader EHS roles within a medium sized manufacturing firm based in Newport.

In his current role, Scott is responsible for an EHS team of eight professionals who provide dedicated support to the shop floor teams, drive the strategic direction that the site takes on EHS and works closely with operations to ensure EHS excellence is maintained at the 1,200 person strong facility. Scott is currently studying for his NEBOSH Diploma.

Outside of work, Scott enjoys watching football and American sports, returning home to Cornwall regularly to see family and friends, and spending time with his fiancé and two sons, Noah and Ethan.