South Cumbria & North Lancashire District

IPD, CPD and mentoring

Mentoring, Education and

Development Advisers

Carol Stearne CMIOSH

Safety Adviser, H J Heinz UK, Kendal

Magda Trafas Dip.OSH, GradIOSH

Health, Safety and Environmental Officer, Enesco, Carlisle

IPD and CPD help desk

Carol (CPD) and/or Magda (IPD) are usually available before and after our Netherwood meetings to give one-to-one IPD and CPD advice.

They can access the IOSH website from their laptops to demonstrate the IOSH web based CPD system and are happy to help sort out any problems that you may have encountered.

IPD and CPD Workshops

Carol organised two IPD/CPD workshops during 2009/10, one in 2011 and one in February 2012. She will organise additional workshops if there is enough interest.

Mentoring help available

In the first instance please contact Carol or Magda if you need mentoring assistance.

Carol has a wide range of experience of managing safety within an international organisation and Magda has experience of managing safety for an organisation with multiple sites and home workers.

They will be able to help you, or, put you in contact with other South Cumbria members with expertise on the following topics:

• Auditing
• Chemical laboratory safety: Risk Assessment, COSHH, compressed gas etc...
• Confined spaces
• Emergency planning
• Fire Risk Assessment
• Fire procedures
• ISO9001:2000 Quality Management systems
• Ionising and non-ionising radiation
• Instrumentation: process, laboratory
• Locking off
• Lone working: Risk Assessment, outbuildings, fieldwork, field research sites etc...
• Manual handling
• Noise
• Occupational Health schemes: defining, setting up, sourcing, introducing staff etc...
• Occupational hygiene
• OHSAS18011:1999 Occupational H & S Management Systems
• Policy documents: H & S Management
• Portfolio presentation
• Quality: integration of Environment, Health and Safety Management systems
• Radiochemistry laboratory safety: Risk Assessment, COSHH, Ionising radiation regulations etc...
• Retail Risk Assessment
• Risk Assessment
• Safety Guidance Notes in plain English: VDU work, manual handling etc...
• Security functions
• Vibration
• Working Abroad: Risk Assessment, COSHH, Ionising Radiation Regulations, fieldwork, field research sites, eastern block countries etc...