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About the team

The Corporate Health, Safety and Wellbeing (HSW) Team provide the following support services to Council managers and staff (some of these may be offered only as traded services to schools):

  • health and safety advice and information
  • core health and safety training and briefings
  • health and safety policies, guidance, performance standards and legal updates
  • monitoring and auditing of health and safety matters and management systems
  • accident/incident report collation and analysis of statistics and trends, plus some investigation and reporting to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).

Contact us

For general advice, support and information on all matters relating to health, safety and wellbeing is available by email or telephone Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm.

All enquiries are triaged to ensure that we respond to concerns about HSW risks in a timely way. We will drop everything if there is an imminent risk of injury.

Email [email protected].
Our inbox is monitored throughout the day and we aim to respond to your query within five working days.

Telephone 01752 312523 (option 1)
There is almost always someone available to take your call. If your enquiry needs a response from a subject matter expert, we may ask a specific member of the team to call you back.

Members of the HSW team

Liam Gallagher
Health, Safety and Wellbeing Advisor (point of contact for Schools)
T: 01752 304592
E: [email protected]

Michelle Hingston-Wood
Health and Wellbeing Advisor (Wellbeing Specialist)
T: 01752 398594
E: [email protected]

Other members

Shaun Badmin
Interim Health, Safety and Wellbeing Operational Manager
T: 01752 304661
E: [email protected]

Neil Walmsley
Health, Safety and Wellbeing Advisor
T: 01752 305993
E: [email protected]

Scott Gallagher
Health, Safety and Wellbeing Advisor
T: 01752 304761
E [email protected]

Kirstie Spencer
Head of Health and Safety
T: 01752 307902
E [email protected]