I am delighted to be taking part in GOSHA. It promotes good workplace practices and helps Guernsey to be a safer pace in which to work. The benefits of good health and safety management are many and varied and the consequences of failing to address or adequately address health and safety can be catastrophic and often have significant, adverse effects.

So often, inexpensive or simple changes in workplace practices or better training and awareness could have made all the difference - GOSHA provides a forum to help everyone to be better informed and to take a proactive approach to this important business and socially responsible subject.

Jonathan is the Health & Safety Manager for the Health & Social Services Department, and works at the Princess Elizabeth Hospital. Jonathan is also a registered paramedic, with over 15 years of operational ambulance service experience.

A NEBOSH examiner, and with a degree in education, Jonathan has developed and delivered a number of health & safety and first aid training solutions across the UK.

Jonathan is a Chartered member of IOSH and has many years of experience in providing health & safety advice within a diverse range of sectors – including the police service, retail & distribution, facilities management, local government and higher education.

Jonathan has been acting as the Secretary to GOSHA since February 2007.  Jonathan currently works for Coppolo & Coyde Limited, a new and locally staffed health & Safety consultancy.

Jonathan has been working as a Channel Islands based Health & Safety consultant since March 2002 and is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health'.

Mhairi joined GOSHA in 2005 as a committee member, first as Secretary in April 2005 and now as Treasurer in Nov 2006. She works as a full time consultant for Normandie Health & Safety Ltd.

Before moving to Guernsey in 2001 she was employed as an Environmental Health Officer for 17 years for various local authorities in Kent, with 50% of her time allocated to health & safety enforcement.

Ian Whattam joined GOSHA in January 2007 as a representative for the local construction industry. Ian is a Senior Project Manager with 38 years of experience within the construction industry 6 of those working in Guernsey.

His experience varies from small refurbishments to major multimillion pound projects which has given him a keen insight into Health and Safety on site.

One of his many roles is to devise the health and safety plan along with the relevant specific risk and method statements and is also proud to have managed the largest project on Guernsey without any reportable accidents; his philosophy is “a clean and tidy site is a safe site” which he maintains at all times.

Gordon is Operations & Compliance manager at Heritage Group Insurance Brokers and part of his role is to help businesses to reduce operational risks in conjunction with the placement of insurance.

He has wide experience of the insurance industry, is a former President of IIG and also has experience with the Fire Service and with a Guernsey based airline operation.

Nathan joined the GOSHA committee in October 2010. Nathan has worked for Guernsey Water since 2000 and from 2006 has been the Compliance Manager who is responsible for drinking water quality, catchment protection and health & safety.

He has a science background and is a chartered biologist. Nathan has a keen interest in health & safety and hopes to enhance the already good work undertaken by GOSHA.