04/08/2025
I was just looking at my LinkedIn profile and reading the headline to see if it was the correct message that I'm sending out? Its good to keep reflecting and self analysing.
So my headline says;
Founder specialising in CDM, engineering and manufacturing compliance, risk reduction and business leadership through enhanced health & safety
So, I broke it down and all the core competences are self explanatory. After 40 years in industry, engineering, manufacturing and construction there is experience across these sectors. Having been a director of a 200 strong business for 11 years, sending teams across the world to install new, manufactured capital equipment teaches you a thing or two. So I'm happy with that part. 🤩
Risk reduction and business leadership. This part comes into everything that I have been involved with and the people and teams I have been part of. As a director of health and safety and engineering, every element of the process involves thinking about health and safety, as well as the processes of design, procurement, manufacturing, installation, service, aftersales and even refurbishment and end of life of the systems/machines (demolition and recycling). So yes happy with this part as well.🤩
through enhanced health and safety. I wrote this some time ago, but wanted to explore what I mean to portray.
What is enhanced health and safety? 🤔
Well what I meant when I was writing this statement, is this;
Health and safety is not a stand alone system. If affects everything and everyone inside and outside of business. Hazards and risk is everywhere. From driving your car to work or otherwise, to being in your business to do your work, working from the home office or flying all over the world to do your work.
Health and safety should not be taken in isolation because human beings are affected by our environment wherever we are.
So the meaning of enhanced health and safety means that when I look at a business and their systems, I'm not just looking with a view on health and safety in isolation but with an `enhanced' view of the wider business functions that should have health and safety running through them like a special thread. Each department feeds the next, so from designing intrinsically safe machinery, with and eye on the people who will attend to that machinery to maintain and clean it, and procurement who can determine the correct selection of materials and resources that can provide safe and certified value.
So having had my self appraisal, am I happy with my headline?
Yes I can say that I think this fits me perfectly and unless I ran it through AI (which i haven't) I wouldn't be able to get it any more perfect. 🤩
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