Mace Sustain

Senior Environment, Safety and Health Consultant

Robin is a safety professional with over twenty years' experience in safety, health & environmental management. His current role at Mace Sustain involves developing bespoke safety, health and environmental solutions for internal and external clients of the Mace Group. This includes the majority of services offered by Mace Sustain including CDM Co-ordination, behavioural management (BMoS)and occupational health safety (OHS) training and auditing.

Robin began his construction health and safety career as a principle researcher for the Health and Safety Executive's evaluation of behavioural safety, including the measurement of safety climate, at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). This research generated over 50 academic papers and many opportunities for him to speak at international conferences and deliver IOSH's behavioural safety CPD workshops.

Prior to joining Mace, Robin was employed by Marsh Risk Consulting as its European Thought Leader for their behavioural management programme and operated as a senior consultant for other health and safety services. He also developed and evaluated virtual reality software as a teaching and assessment tool for improving health and safety awareness of construction apprentices.

Robin is heavily involved in academic lecturing and course development for Salford and Bath Universities, including authoring distance-learning modules - Behavioural Safety, MSc in Health and Safety Management, Construction Health and Safety, MSc in International Construction Management and has advised students on their MSc dissertation submissions since for the last 12 years.

Timeline
2009 Member of Technical and Scientific Committee, CIB
W099 Conference 2009 on Working Together: Planning, Designing and Building a Healthy and Safe Construction Industry, Melbourne, Australia
2007 Appointed Mace Sustain, Senior Environmental, Safety and Health Consultant
2001 - 2007 Marsh Risk Consulting, Senior Consultant (European Thought Leader) for Behavioural Risk Improvement Practice - development and implementing behavioural solutions for clients, including cultural measurement
1998 - 2007 IOSH, Leicester - CPD course provider for ‘Introduction to Behavioural Safety' and ‘Development of a behavioural safety programme'
1999 - 2001 Health and Safety Laboratories (HSL), Sheffield - development and evaluation of virtual reality
1998 - 2006 IOSH, Leicester - Member of Technical Affairs Committee - developing policy and strategy for professional body
1997 - 1999 Visiting Lecturer - UMIST, Manchester (Construction management and safety (BSc / MSc)); Bath University (Construction safety (MSc)); Aston University (Behavioural safety and culture change (MSc / HSE Inspectors CPD))
1989 - 1997 UMIST, Manchester - Associate Researcher and Honorary Lecturer - HSE funded research - Behavioural based safety and related issues, lecturing construction technology (BSc) and construction management (BSc / MSc)
1995 - 1999 Salford University - Honorary Lecturer - construction technology (BSc), behavioural safety and cultural measurement (MSc)
1996 Admitted as Fellow of Royal Society for the Promotion of Health (FRSH)
1992 UMIST, Manchester - MSc Construction Management (by research)
1986 - 1989 UMIST, Manchester - BSc (Hons) Building Technology