Colleague Spotlight
Andy Hooke, Principal Health & Safety Consultant
Andy's background
Andy is a Principal Consultant within the Health & Safety team at WorkNest, having joined the company in 2021. As a trusted advisor, Andy provides invaluable support to our clients, addressing their diverse and sometimes complex needs, and managing a broad client portfolio across a wide range of industries.
Andy is a Chartered Safety Practitioner with a specialism in safety across Engineering and Manufacturing environments, and has extensive experience in many other sectors including education, local government and healthcare to name a few.
Andy is a qualified and experienced trainer and an advocate of change and innovation, continually looking for new ways to improve processes, drawing upon lean methodologies acquired during his tenure in the manufacturing sector.
Mental wellbeing in the workplace holds a particular interest for Andy, and he remains deeply committed to supporting good mental wellbeing in the workplace through his work as a first aid for mental health instructor.
Andy also enjoys writing and has several published pieces within IOSH magazine, and acts as a mentor for other safety professionals. He has also served on the IOSH East Midlands Branch Exec Team.
Andy’s qualifications
Chartered Safety and Health Practitioner (CMIOSH)
Member of the Institute of Fire Safety Managers and included on the Tiered Fire Risk Assessors Register
Institute of Industrial Accident Investigators (Associate)
L6 Diploma in Applied Health and Safety
NEBOSH General Certificate in Health and Safety
Award in Education and Training
First Aid for Mental Health Instructor qualification
Who you’ll be working with
Client stories
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Our relationship with WorkNest is more like a supportive partnership. They treat us like peers, and yet provide extraordinary support whenever we need it. Whether it is about the challenges of working through a pandemic or building a new HR strategy, the people at WorkNest have been kind, holding our hand when that was needed (and it was!) and skilled
experts, providing guidance as we required it. We would not have managed through this last period without them, and I look forward to more of this cooperation ahead.”
