THE NORTH WEST SAFETY INITIATIVE
Introduction
The North West Safety Initiative was established to ensure that adequate financial resources would be available to enable the North West Construction Safety Group, The Merseyside and Cheshire Construction Safety Group and the CDM Duty Holders Support Group to achieve their aims and objectives without putting individuals at personal financial risk.
The broad principal is to facilitate projects that improve health and safety in the construction industry, by funding schemes that are generally self funding beneficial to group members whilst ensuring the viability and continuity of the North West Safety Initiative.
Committee Membership
Chairman - Ian Crowe
Secretary - Graham O’Neill
Treasurer - Mike Bond
HSE - Neil Jamieson and specialist support appropriate to current activities
General Committee - Two members from each of the three specialist groups
Achievements
- Group members have been involved in working parties with the HSE to develop and amend legislation.
- We have provided group feedback on proposed legislation.
- We have facilitated a number of seminars initially at a large scale to get the Health And Safety message over to large numbers while more recently we have run smaller free seminars to targeted audiences on topics such as fire in timber frame construction, general environmental issues in construction, the revised CDM Regulations.
Objectives
To enhance the standards of Health and Safety in the Construction Industry in the North West and to support the three groups in their activities.