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About the team

Meet the Team  

Key contacts for schools Contact 
Clare Cotter
Head of Health, Safety and Wellbeing Assurance Team 
307006
clare.cotter@plymouth.gov.uk
Shaun Badmin
Health, Safety and Wellbeing Assurance Specialist
304661
shaun.badmin@plymouth.gov.uk
Other members of the team  
Neil Walmsley 
Assistant Health, Safety and Wellbeing Assurance Specialist
305993
neil.walmsley@plymouth.gov.uk
Jemma Freeman 
Wellbeing Specialist 
307183
jemma.freeman@plymouth.gov.uk

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 healthandsafety@plymouth.gov.uk.
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.