Chartered Environmental Health Officer
Chartered Health and Safety Practitioner
Who am I?
I have over 30 years experience in risk management, and hold a number of professional memberships:
Chartered Environmental Health Officer - MCIEH CEnvH
Chartered H&S Practitioner - CMIOSH
Practitioner Member - PIEMA
Risk Professional - MIIRSM
I am proud to be an EHO and be part of making the world of work healthier and safer. Too me, a day’s work should leave you feeling better, healthier, and enhance your wellbeing after your day’s work.
So, apart from my professional memberships what are my credentials aka CV?
Well:
MSc Environmental Health and Public Health - Leeds Becket University
BA (Open) - a mixture of history and social science modules - The Open University
HND Environmental and Occupational Health - Middlesex University
And a plethora of professional qualifications from organisations including NEBOSH, IEMA, and BSI.
I spent 20 years in the British Army, the first 12 years working in Intelligence and Security in the Intelligence Corps. I then re-trained within the Army as an Environmental Health Practitioner. On leaving the Army I spent a year as a full time student studying for my MSc; after a couple of interim and temporary jobs I started working for Nuffield Health in 2012 as the H&S lead for the hospitals, HSSUs, and medical centres. In 2017 I was appointed into a newly created role of Head of Health and Safety, where I worked on H&S, Environmental, and Sustainability issues. After Nuffield Health I had a ten-month interim role as Head of Risk, H&S, Environment, and Facilities with Aspen Healthcare in 2021, and six months as the Associate Director for the construction and facilities management company Mace before starting as Head of H&S at Care UK in 2022, one of the largest residential care home providers in the UK.
What is HSE?
To me the term HSE covers a multitude of disciplines. It is about leadership, vision, horizon scanning, strategy, operationally effective. It is about networking, training, workshops, audits, mentoring, inspections, investigations, data analysis. It is ultimately all about risk, and it covers many areas:
Health and Safety
Environmental Health
Food Safety
Fire
Environment
ESG (Environment, Social, and Governance)
Wellbeing
Hygiene
Public Health
Sustainability
Waste
Risk Management
Security
Business Continuity
Pest Control
Housing
Community
Quality
Corporate Social Responsibility
I am fully insured as a consultant with Professional Indemnity and Public Liability Insurance and registered on OSHCR. However I do not offer any paid consultancy services; I occasionally offer pro bono support to not-for-profits, community interest companies, and charities.
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-9158-9920
ResearchGate: Phillip Clarke on researchgate.net
Food Safety
All food operations must embed food safety and HACCP in their operations. An effective food safety management system is key to ensuring the food produced and served is safe to eat and stored safely..
Sustainability
The UN’s sustainable development goals are a series of 17 key principles that provide a blueprint on how we can achieve a better and sustainable future for all n our planet. All can be part of this.
Health and Safety
There are financial, legal, and reputation reasons why we need excellent H&S - but the key reason is that it is the right thing to do. Work should enhance our health and wellbeing..
Environment
We waste far too much of our natural resources. By developing an effective environmental management system organisations can identify ways to reduce waste thus reduce costs and benef our world.
Fire Safety
Fire destroys lives, and most SMEs that suffer a fire do not re-open. By developing and suitable fire risk assessment an organisation can identify and put in place effective mitigation measures.
Hygiene
Following the unprecedented times we have faced it is important we protect our people from communicable disease.; excellent hygiene is key and best if embedded in core working practices.