About GOSHA
Our Committee
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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.
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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.
Andrew Mills
Chairman
Clare McArdel
Vice Chairman
OHCI Limited was set up in March 2007 to provide an Occupational Health Service for all Businesses within the Channel Islands, whatever the number of employees.
The job involves working closely with Managers, HR, and Health & Safety, as well as the individuals who may be referred through to the service. It covers aspects such as sickness absence and health surveillance in line with Health & Safety Guidance and risk assessments.
I am pleased to be involved with GOSHA and hope that my experience working in Occupational Health can provide our members with advice and guidance beyond their normal understanding of Health & Safety."
Tony Willis
Committee Member
Underwriting Manager, Insurance Corporation of the Channel Islands.
Tony joined GOSHA in 2009. In his time with RSA in the UK (ICCI is the Guernsey subsidiary) he developed their strategy and tools for the assessment of abuse and quality standards in the construction industry, making particular reference to the latest CDM Regulations.
"I am delighted to renew Insurance Corporation's association with the GOSHA committee as good health and safety is critical to sound risk management and keeping companies running with the minimum of interruption. The Corporation has a wealth of experience in risk management with which to assist its customers and GOSHA provides us with the ability to ensure this remains relevant and appropriate to the needs of Guernsey businesses".
Jonathan Coyde
Secretary
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 MacGregor
Committee Member
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, although before moving to Guernsey in 2001 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
Committee Member
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 Snell
Treasurer
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.
Steve Roussel
Committee Member
Steve joined the GOSHA committee in November 2006. He is a chartered engineer and is responsible for Ronez Ltd.’s quarrying, ready-mix concrete and other production activities in Guernsey and Jersey.
Jon Webb
Committee Member
Jonathan joined the committee in 2009.
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.
On joining the committee, Jonathan commented “Most people do not recognize the potential risks in workplaces until an incident arises. GOSHA provides an ideal forum for staff at all levels of both small and larger organizations to discuss the safety challenges they face at work and establish, through the networking opportunities that are available in the Association, the often simple solutions that make situations so much safer for all”.