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Health & Safety Consultants -
Phone: 01536 460 171
Health & Safety Consultants for Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire, Warwickshire, Leicestershire and all of the Midlands
Health & Safety at Work and Fire Risk Assessment Consultants for Northampton, Kettering, Corby, Wellingborough, Market Harborough, Peterborough, Leicester & Milton Keynes areas
Dean Howells DipNEBOSH, MIIRSM, RMaPS, GradIOSH,
Managing Director
Dean has over 20 year’s experience of managing health & safety in a variety of industries and business environments. Following successful careers in construction management and facilities management, both of which involved significant responsibilities for the safety of employees
and the public, Dean’s passion for safety ultimately led him to form his own consultancy.
Dean was the Safety Officer for Rushden & Diamonds Football Club for 12 years, during which time he also became the Club’s General Manager.
Dean has achieved the National Examination Board in Occupational Safety & Health, Level 6 Diploma in Occupational Health & Safety, and is a member of the International Institute
of Risk & Safety Management as well as a graduate member of the Institute of
Occupational Safety & Health.
Dean’s skills & competencies and enthusiasm for safety, combined with a keen awareness
of commercial responsibilities make him ideally placed to assist companies to manage
health & safety efficiently and cost effectively.
Tracy Howells B.Ed Hons, Director
Tracy has over 20 years experience in commerce. With a CIPD qualification in recruitment she has particular expertise of business administration, human resources and recruitment & training.
Prior to joining Essential Safety, Tracy worked as a recruitment
Cathie Madigan RGN, Ergonomics Consultant
Cathie possesses a wealth of experience and expertise as a General Practitioner Nurse and neurosurgical intensive care Sister. Cathie has more recently gone on to specialise in back care, spending 5 years as
a Senior Ergonomic and Manual Handling Consultant at the Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead NHS Trust, London, during which time she
provided expert advice and guidance for complex patient manual handling issues.
Cathie can provide specialist consultancy services to Clients in a wide range of ergonomic and manual handling areas including manual handling assessments & training; Display Screen Equipment (DSE) assessments & training; Ergonomic workplace & product assessments & evaluation; Specialist ergonomic advisory services for employee / client handling issues.
Cathie’s services and advice will benefit organisations with general ergonomic / manual handling requirements or those with specific employee issues which they may have otherwise found difficult to resolve.
consultant before moving into HR, managing various projects. Most recently Tracy has worked in HR and recruitment working for an international child care company.

Tony Locock Consultant
Tony holds the National Examination Board in Occupational Health General Certificate and has gained extensive managerial and strategic experience over many years working at a senior level in the Public Sector. Tony has managed large Inland Revenue offices of up 350 staff, and has developed considerable Human Resources expertise having
also been Deputy Human Resources Director for the London Region.
As the Inland Revenues Business Environment manager Tony led strategic development of
Health & Safety, Estates, Security, Business Continuity and Sustainable Development policies. Latterly Tony managed a team of internal management consultants responsible for strategic & business analysis, organisation design and efficiency programmes.
Tony’s extensive experience of the management of health & safety within a large public-
Our Mission:
“To be established throughout the Midlands as professional and dependable Health and Safety experts, who make it easy for businesses to be safe in an innovative, efficient and worry free way.”





