Testimonials
I am delighted to write this testimonial for Andrew Brown and North Durham Safety Limited. North Durham Safety Limited turnaround projects in keeping with legislation, mainly CDM. Andrew himself is very knowledgeable with regards current legislation and best practice and has been a great asset to the team with his broad knowledge within Health and Safety, devotion and flexibility to each project. He is very disciplined, diplomatic and an excellent communicator. A large part of his involvement is around contractor control. In this regard Andrew personally thrives when delivering Health and Safety training when delivering key safety messages to all contract staff involved with the works. His enthusiasm for safety on the job is infectious and this is evident when contract staff engage in the work.
Andrew always tries to consider the bigger picture ensuring the whole project is considered as a whole
Guy Pickets
Turnaround (Outage) Manager at BOC UK & Ireland
Andrew has recently successfully completed a site safety contract for a medium sized European project with complexity in a non-English speaking workforce. A competent site safety manager who can maintain and assert a high standard in a time constrained environment. His strength is a passion to take people with him with great attention to detail whilst maintaining project timelines. A team member who often went above and beyond the job profile to achieve a successful project using and working on his own initiative. I look forward to working on another project with him. This was a tough and challenging role working with people who relied on a dependant safety culture. A great job done and leaves behind an workforce less dependent and with better safety perception.
Pete Hall
Project Engineer at BOC Linde Rotherham
Andrew is a highly experienced HSE professional with a deep knowledge of HSE matters. His engagement with everybody and dedication to HSE and the project served our construction site very well. His documentation is well organized. It was a great pleasure working with him and I am looking forward to the next project.
Kristina Nieher
Lead Construction & Commissioning HSE at Linde AG, Engineering Division
Andrew is a very engaged and highly experienced HSE professional with a deep knowledge of HSE matters. Due to his emphatic behaviour he is very well accepted at all levels. His documentation- and communication skills serves him very well at the sites. It was a great pleasure working with him and I am looking forward to the next project.
Thomas Radon
Global HSE Manager bei Linde Engineering
Andy has managed the site safety aspects in a thoroughly professional manner. His way of dealing with the different safety problems that a complex site populated with many nationalities brings, has been exemplary. Only he can deliver the message in his own personalised North Eastern kind of way! He has earned the respect of all around him. I’d work with him anywhere and know the job is being well done.
Ian Fleming
Lead Project Execution at BOC
A very capable and experienced professional, had the pleasure of working with Andy co-ordinating security measures at a local industrial site on Teesside.
John Bickerstaff
Security Advisor
Andrew is working as a HSE manager in the project I am involved. He is one of the best HSE professionals I have ever worked with. It is really easy to work and deal with him. He is always willing to help and the most important thing, he gets everyone to be aware of health and safety. It is being a pleasure to work with him.
Emilio Hernández Jaén
Various Companies
Andrew and I shared a common Line manager and often work together, I always found him well organised and informed.
In particular his extensive SHE knowledge and experience were an asset within the team, on one particular occasion he trained the major overhaul team in the use of permit to work supporting certificates prior to work commencing,
John Weightman
Plant manager at Linde
Andy was a highly capable and highly regarded SHEQ Manager, who built a broad base of experience on an upper tier COMAH site with a diverse range of hazards.
His experience includes leading risk assessments, developing method statements and managing contractors in both ongoing maintenance work and high-intensity turnaround periods.
He has delivered briefings and training on a variety of health and safety topics to all levels of staff from front line operators to senior management. His charismatic style is both entertaining and effective at imparting the intended message.
He has a wealth of other experience covering subjects from manual handling to emergency planning, (among many others), and has good report writing, presentation and verbal communication skills.
He also has a good understanding of the legal framework for health and safety management in the UK, and of specific legislative requirements such as COMAH, CDM and COSHH (to name a few).
Jon Hallam
Process Safety Manager at BOC Gases
I worked with Andrew during our time at Siemens Microelectronics. Andrew is a pleasant and likeable person who is easy to get along with and was liked and respected by his colleagues and managers. He is conscientious and hardworking and is detail orientated. Andrews’s skills included planning, staff management, leadership, an ability to learn quickly and adapt to changing circumstances. He was an asset to the team at Siemens and I would have no hesitation in recommending Andrew or working with him again in the future, should the occasion arise
Graham Walton
Managing Director at Blue Box Management Consultants
Andrew is an exceptional Safety Manager. In all our dealings with him is was knowledgeable, well organised and friendly
Tony Richardson
Creative Director
I worked with Andy for a number of years in a health and safety role and found him to be honest, hardworking and very people orientated. His knowledge of health and safety systems has grown significantly within that time as has his ability to influence those around him to improve their performance. Andy was a much valued member of the operations team when he left BOC and has been missed. I wish him well for the future
Jon Cleary
Operations Manager, Immingham at BOC UK & Ireland
As a contract company we worked with Andy at B.O.C. Tees Port during a busy outage period. Andy was very professional, helpful and knowledgeable. A good team player.
Steven George
Head of SHEQ at Rainham Industrial Services Ltd
I had the pleasure of working on a regular basis with Andrew in my role as the emergency planning officer for Cleveland Fire Brigade. Andrew is a dedicated hard working and has demonstrated his knowledge of the BOC site processes and all the safety systems employed by the company. I would have no problem with recommending Andrew.
Joe Dunne
Operational Assurance Manager at Cleveland Fire Brigade
Andrew Thank you for your help and support for our Fire Risk Assessment. This company came to my premises, looked around, asked a few questions and wrote a report. We received a log book to fill out and a report to show where we need to make a few improvements to comply with regulations. Went above and beyond to help. Professional and highly motivated. Would highly recommend.
Judith Rochford
Company Secretary at Rochfords Garages Limited
Andrew is a hard working, well organised manager. Who prides himself on delivering his tasks on time, in budget and to the highest possible standard. He excels in his knowledge in SHE and his ability to communicate and organise others.
Matthew Price
Shift Site Operations Manager at Huntsman
I have worked alongside Andy within the Northern Area Management team for nearly three years now and during this time Andy has continued to be a great colleague and friend. He consistently demonstrates a thorough knowledge and understanding of all safety, health, environment and quality aspects associated with our business and is able to apply this knowledge practically out in the field. His efforts in helping the site maintain its ISO9001 and ISO14001 accreditation have been invaluable, especially during external and internal audits.
Andy has worked on two major plant turnarounds at the site over the last four years and played a key role in ensuring site work was completed safely. He achieves this through clear communication with people from all disciplines and backgrounds and through visible leadership. He will be a huge miss to the team here and we all wish him a happy and successful future.
Victoria Oleksik
Teesside Hydrogen Plant Manager at BOC Gases
Whilst at BOC I worked closely with Andrew on several different projects. Certain tasks required his in-depth knowledge of safety and as a result I learnt a considerable amount of SHEQ related aspects. In projects where Andrew took the lead he was very successful and was able to use the team members to the best of their abilities.
Andrew is a very committed individual and is always willing to help colleagues who require it. I thoroughly appreciate the knowledge I have gained from working with Andrew and hope we have the opportunity to work together in the future.
Aaron Mowbray
Graduate Chemical Engineer at BOC
The majority of the tasks I undertook at BOC were under the supervision of Andrew. He is very committed to any task he is given and will go out of his way to ensure a successful outcome to a problem. He is a natural leader of any group and strives to get the best out of the people he is working with. Having returned to university, my final year design project won an Energy Institute award due to its contribution to safety, which is directly due to the knowledge I learnt from working with Andrew. I thoroughly enjoyed my time working with him and hope that our paths cross in the future.
Ben Jenkinson
Project Engineer at BOC UK & Ireland
I had the pleasure to work with Andy on two major plant turnarounds where he supported me fulfilling the SHEQ Manager in the project team. I found Andy to be a great asset to the project and the level of his involvement and his personal skills without doubt made a major contribution to the success of those projects. He has a very high work rate and link that to his drive and enthusiasm he quickly breaks through barriers and boundaries whilst ensuing that the rest of the team are considered and therefore everyone buys into the outputs. He is obviously a great team member but also a person that can take the lead and does it very well. I will miss his support, his sincerity and friendship on future projects. Good luck for the future Andy, keep in touch.
Nick Wilkinson
Projects Manager at BOC Gases