Colleague Spotlight
Simon Wilkinson, Principal Health & Safety Consultant
Simon's background
Simon is one of the Principal Consultants within the Health & Safety team at WorkNest, having joined the company in 2019.
He has enjoyed a long career in the health and safety industry having started at the HSE in 1988 and working in a variety of health and safety management roles within the public sector, including the prison service since then.
Simon works with a wide variety of clients including hotels, schools, heavy industry, recycling plants, town councils, and manufacturing, and he says that this provides him with numerous exciting learning opportunities.
Simon is extremely proud of consistently achieving Customer Satisfaction Gold Awards from his clients, which reflects his personal service and friendly attitude.
Outside of work, Simon enjoys hiking with his wife and going out for ‘first class meals’ in brilliant North Yorkshire. Holidays in Southern France, Austria and Germany also are a highlight. Simon also enjoys reading history books which he says allows him to temporarily break away from the world of health and safety!
Simon’s qualifications
NEBOSH General Certificate Occupational Safety and Health
Level 4 NVQ Occupational Health and Safety Practice
Level 3 NVQ Preparing to Teach in Lifelong Learning Sector
NVQ Certificate Manual Handling Train the Trainer
NEBOSH Fire Safety Risk Management – Practical Units
Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (CM IOSH)
Technician Member of the Institute of Fire Safety Manager [TIFSM]
Who you’ll be working with
Willem Van Den Raad
Principal Health & Safety Consultant
Greg Guilford
Director of HR Consulting
Client stories
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Gus Hosein
Executive Director, Privacy International
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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
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I’ve taken WorkNest into every organisation that I’ve worked with. I’ve introduced them to many teams and many colleagues and referred them with absolute pleasure because I genuinely trust in the service that we get.”
People Director, The Works
