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Geoff Clegg
FGC Associates
Managing Director Health & Health & Safety Solutions

Personal Profile

Geoff has been a dedicated health and safety professional for the past ten years. In his role as Reichhold's European and Middle East EHS Manager, Geoff worked closely with the Company’s manufacturing sites in Europe and the Middle East to ensure compliance with local/country regulations and global corporate standards and guidelines, including Process Safety management. Geoff was responsible for tracking country specific regulatory changes, overseeing communications to government agencies, managing crisis communications and incident investigation processes. He had the corporate responsibility for overseeing and contributing to the health and safety programme for contractor safety on construction work in the Company’s new India plant and for the health and safety training of contractors and company staff. He was responsible for facilitating European/Middle East networking and for the sharing of best practices, incidents, Company goals and personnel development.
Previous roles over a period of 39 years include operations and factory management appointments in the Chemical Industry.

Geoff is now operating a small, private consultancy practice and is able to offer a flexible service to small to medium sized companies, especially those seeking assistance with their duty of care to comply with their legal obligations.

He is an industrial chemist, a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (FCMI) and a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC)

Consultancy Services

FGC Associates can offer the following services to its clients:

 Company Health & Safety Audits – assessment of requirements for the company to be in legal compliance with H & S regulations

 Company Health & Safety Policy Statements.

 Accident/Incident Reporting and Investigation

 Emergency Response procedures – fire and evacuation

 Risk Assessments.

• Workshop/Office risk assessments
• COSHH (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health) risk assessments
• Display Screen Equipment risk assessments
• Fire Workplace risk assessments

 Health & Safety Training

• Induction training
• Employee Consultation & Communication

• Fire Extinguisher training
• Accident/Incident Reporting and Investigation

 Dangerous Goods Safety Adviser. A service to manage a company’s shipments of dangerous goods by road transport under UK/ADR regulatory requirements.

 Environmental Advice

Achievements

 Reduced recordable accidents in a large chemical plant from 7 in one year to 1 in three years.

 Upgraded Medical Surveillance programme from local clinic to full Medical Business Care providers

 Appointed a member of the committee tasked to produce a corporate Accident/Incident Investigation procedure, part of the Company’s global process safety management programme.

 Appointed European & Middle East Environmental Health & Safety Manager with a large global chemical manufacturer

 Appointed Dangerous Goods Safety Adviser for the Scandinavian plant and warehouses