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Meet the Team - Mr Grahame Tobin

Qualifications

  • NEBOSH Managing Safely Certificate.
  • NEBOSH National General Certificate
  • IOSH Tech SP.
  • MIIRSM.
  • OCR CPC Freight National
  • OCR CPC Freight International
  • ABC 7307-1 Teaching Cert.
  • CITY AND GUILDS 7307-2 Teaching Cert.
  • Past ITSSAR FLT Instructor Reg 1:12998
  • Past ITSSAR Tutor Reg 4:10084

April 2004 onwards

Training Standards Advisor ITSSAR.

My role involves travelling the Country, monitoring training delivered by Category 1 Lift Truck and Plant Instructors, as well as Category 2 training organisations, and Monitoring Tutors delivering Instructor training at Category 3 training organisations.

Other duties of the role are to attend HSE meetings and I am also the OPERC representative for ITSSAR.

After 3 years work I have also just achieved Accrediting Body status for ITSSAR in Southern Ireland.

From September 2000 until April 2004

J Coates (HGV) Services Ltd.
46-50 Great Central St
Leicester

J Coates is a commercial training provider within the LGV sector, it has a turnover approaching £ 2.5 m with a flourishing FLT and Mech Handling dept. The Company is contracted to supply training to several "Blue Chip" organisations, Royal Mail, British Gypsum and the MOD amongst them. At present It employs 102 people spread over sites in Leicester, Slough, Grantham (MOD), Lark Hill (MOD).

I am employed as Company Safety Advisor, which as you can imagine involves travel throughout the Country, my other duties are for course design and presentation, including Health and Safety Training, Instructor Training and the OCR Certificate of Professional Competence for National Freight Operations (UK) and the similar course for International Operations. I carry out Forklift Safety Audits for British Gypsum among others.

October 1998 until 30/04/00

R W Vesey Ltd
734, Melton Road,
Thurmaston,
Leicester.
LE4 8BD.

Safety Technician

Assessments regarding training, safety and environmental issues on Clients premises, providing information regarding risk assessment, HASAW, MHSAW, COSHH, Noise, Manual Handling, carrying out environmental assessments, noise surveys, personal air sampling (particulate and stain tube detector tube method) background air monitoring (particulate and stain tube detector method), isokinetic stack emission testing to BS 3405, COSHH assessments of Local Exhaust Ventilation systems. Office Safety. Report writing following these assessments.

November 1995 to October 1998

NESTLE GROUP DISTRIBUTION,
BARDON,
LEICESTERSHIRE

Shift Safety Advisor.

I was part of the action team that formulated the health and safety action plan for the site, as a team we designed a policy, plan and an organisational hierarchy and developed methods for assessment, monitoring and review that mirrored the Nestle group policy and integrated working practices and workplace constraints to maximise the safety culture on site. Bardon was a distribution operation of Nestle own brands, on a 35 acre site with approx. 240,000sq ft of storage, it incorporated bulk pallet delivery and a pick to belt operation and an order picking operation using stand on picking vehicles.. My responsibilities on shift were risk assessment, accident reporting and investigation, compilation of accident statistics, toolbox talks, induction training and assessment of agency operators new to the site, COSHH assessments regarding the charging of FLT batteries and training operators in the safe changing of FLT batteries.

March 1994 to November 1995

This period was spent working for various employment agencies following the closure of my own business, it included a six month stint at R W Vesey Ltd, who in October 1998 contacted me and offered me the position of safety technician with them.

July 1983 until March 1994

I started and operated my own business in the public house supplies industry, the business was customer focused and offered levels of support that were not available from the larger organisations in the market place. A combination of the massive reorganisation in the tenanted house sector following the new landlord and tenant act and smuggling after the removal of cross border barriers within the EEC forced me to cease trading in March 1994.

I list my hobbies as renovating my 90 year old house, getting into the countryside to exercise our dog and myself, sea and fly fishing as time allows.

I am a member of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and The International Institute of Risk and Safety Management.