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