NEWS
DR CHRIS PAYNE ANNOUNCED AS NEW NEBOSH CHIEF EXECUTIVE
NEBOSH, a specialist provider of health and safety qualifications and courses, has announced Dr Chris Payne as its new Chief Executive.
Chris has extensive leadership expertise in education, vocational training and qualification sectors, including leading charities
and commercial organisations. His leadership experience and skills gained over 26 years in industry will complement the transformation that NEBOSH is currently undertaking.
Chris’s success includes transforming three organisations into profitable entities using high- level marketing, commercial expertise and strategy development, underpinned with building effective partnerships and putting people first.
Appointed in September 2020 as Interim Chief Executive, Chris impressed NEBOSH’s Board of Trustees with his people-focussed ethos, partnership work and extensive applicable experience.
On taking up the permanent position, Chris said: “Although I’m joining NEBOSH at what is an unprecedented time for our organisation I am both excited and privileged to have the opportunity to work in such a passionate industry that really makes a difference; I’m committed to continuing the NEBOSH legacy in creating high quality qualifications that help to save lives around the world.
“Together with NEBOSH’s team of skilled and experienced people the immediate plan is to continue work on the transformation, including digitalisation, that are a key part of our response to COVID-19 and create a bright future in a new era. What’s more, we’re also working an innovative strategy that will provide new and enhanced learning opportunities for health and safety professionals around the world.”
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CONSTRUCTION FIRM FINED AFTER WORKER SERIOUSLY INJURED
A construction company has been fined after an employee was struck by the placing boom of a concrete pump, causing serious injuries.
Brighton Magistrates Court heard how on the 5 March 2019, concrete footings were being poured at a site at Ditchling Common, East Sussex. Due to the soft ground, vehicles could not get close to the work, so a concrete pump with a 52-metre boom was used.
During the pour, the ground beneath one of the pump outriggers collapsed, causing the concrete pipe and boom to strike the employee, dislocating and fracturing his hip, fracturing his spine and tearing ligaments and muscles. He was also later diagnosed with a brain injury. He is still undergoing regular physiotherapy, and suffering from post-traumatic stress, but does not know the long-term effects of the brain and nerve damage.
An investigation by the HSE found that the work had not been properly planned, managed or monitored. Although some work had been done to stabilise the ground in the area where the pump was set up, no checks had been made as to the load that the ground could sustain, and no consideration had been given to the size or type of spreader plates that would be required to support the vehicle outriggers.
Axio (Special Works) Limited of Portslade, Brighton pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 13 (1) of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 and were fined £20,000, plus a victim surcharge of £170 and costs of £5,285.70.
Speaking after the hearing HSE Inspector Stephen Green said: “The employee’s injuries are life changing and he could have easily been killed. This serious incident and devastation could have been avoided if basic safeguards had been put in place.”
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