How did you get into health and safety? My first real health and safety role was as an instructor with Nationwide Access, delivering courses on the safe use of mobile elevated work platforms. I soon realised how little I really knew about the technicalities of health and safety law, so made a conscious effort to learn more and started studying part time.

How did you get into health and safety? Having served in the RAF I needed transferable skills, and subsequent research led me to health and safety.

How did you get into health and safety? When I worked for Lovell Construction as a site foreman, the health and safety advisor gave me a great deal of help and encouragement in the safe running of my sites. This gave me the impetus to look further into the health and safety side of the industry as a future career.

As a Registered Nurse I moved out of the NHS and into private-sector occupational health, which was a good combination of my caring and business skills.

I got into Health and safety by fluke. I was working with a large American multinational in Dublin in a HR/recruitment role when the organisation approached me to take on the health and safety portfolio in late 1989.

I have worked in the entertainment industry for the last 30 years and safety has always been a big part of this. One of my previous jobs was technical manager for Live Nation. I was invited to join the team that looked after health and safety in all the Live Nation venues in the UK. While there, I joined IOSH as a Tech member and I have continued to develop my knowledge since.

I first became involved in health and safety in the early 1990s, when I was working at a steel forging company. I was an apprentice at the time and was asked to help the safety manager with the implementation of the European ‘Six Pack’ of regulations. So, in a nutshell, my first involvement was simply helping out.

I was working at Canary Wharf in London as a contracts manager, and safety was very high on the agenda. A big part of my role was safety-orientated so instead of completing the CITB SMSTS, I self-funded the NEBOSH General Cert.

My father-in-law had a near-fatal accident at work in the early 1980s and from then on I vowed to advocate health and safety in all that I did in the workplace.

I was in a project engineering department of a chemical company, and the incumbent safety advisor was chemically biased, so the department wanted someone with construction knowledge to support safety. Two years of evening classes later I was department safety advisor.