In any business, especially leisure, events, and visitor led environments, health and safety isn’t just about compliance. It’s a leadership duty. Financial performance means little if people aren’t protected.

Having chaired health and safety committees in a leisure setting for over five years, I’ve led oversight at board level, responded to live incidents, and supported executive teams through complex, high pressure situations. This includes leading crisis management exercises in coordination with police, fire, and ambulance services, including a full scale chemical attack simulation in a theme park. This experience informs a practical, no nonsense approach to risk, responsibility and resilience.

My COO level experience gives me a deep understanding of how operations, risk, and compliance intersect, not just in theory, but in the day to day reality of running large, fast paced environments. My experience also includes reviewing and developing health and safety policies, maintaining live risk registers and ensuring they are fully integrated into leadership reporting and operational planning. These aren’t static documents, they’re working tools to support decision making and accountability across the organisation.