Colleague Spotlight
Simon Wilkinson, Principal Health & Safety Consultant
Simon's background
Simon is a Principal Consultant in the Health & Safety Team at Worknest having joined the company in June 2019.
Simon manages a broad client portfolio across a wide range of industries.
Simon is a Chartered Safety Practitioner & has extensive experience in many sectors including central government/civil service & charity organisations. Simon attained Chartered Membership of IOSH whilst working for Worknest in November 2021 and has always been proud of this achievement.
Outside of work Simon enjoys hiking in North Yorkshire where he lives & visiting historic places such as castles, churches and abbeys. Simon is also an avid reader of history books. When travelling Simon visits France, Austria & Germany almost annually as he enjoys the food, historic sites and the culture out there.
Simon’s qualifications
NEBOSH General Certificate Occupational Safety and Health
Level 4 NVQ Occupational Health & Safety Practice
Level 3 NVQ Preparing to Teach in Lifelong Learning Sector
NVQ Certificate Manual Handling Train the Trainer
Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health [CMIOSH]
Technician Member of the Institute of Fire Safety Manager [TIFSM]
NEBOSH Fire Safety Risk Management – Practical Units
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.”
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WorkNest supports our 280 staff members with Employment Law and Health & Safety and has provided quality management training too.”
Lisa Best
Head of Service Delivery, Catalyst Choice
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We get a great deal of comfort and satisfaction knowing that we have support as and when we need it, in a decisive and responsive way.”
Richard Berry
Group HR Director, Culina Group
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We moved our legal support to WorkNest (formerly Law at Work) having previously used a time and line law firm. It was important, though, that an all-inclusive fee structure did not come at the expense of quality. Thankfully we’ve been delighted with the service we’ve received from WorkNest.”
Chief Executive
Waverley Care
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What we recognised in WorkNest is the background that they have. They are able to supply knowledge and experience in a number of disciplines, which enables us to develop our business in a way that’s safe, to do it on time and with a quality to it.”
Debbie Rainbow
Director of Human Resources and Health & Safety,
Bluestone National Park Resort
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Celia McKeon
Chief Executive, The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT)
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As the company started to get larger, we knew we had to protect our employees and our contractors both onsite and in the offices. WorkNest is exactly what we needed to move the company forward.”
Joanne Beaver
Operations Director, Beaverfit
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Pineapple have worked with the team at WorkNest (formerly Law at Work) since 2003, and we have built a trusted partnership together. We particularly like WorkNest’s concise and practical advice concerning employment law/HR issues and also appreciate their totally supportive approach in all areas of health and safety.”
General Manager
Pineapple Dance Studios
