Inspectors
HSE has operational inspectors who deal with the quarry industry on a day to day basis. The Inspectors form the National Quarries Inspection Team (NQIT) and use a range of methods including:
- Onsite inspections (announced and unannounced).
- Investigation of accidents and complaints.
- Providing guidance and support at visits, by phone or letter and at quarry industry events, exhibitions etc.
- Enforcement where necessary.
Sectors
The Sector function for quarries now forms part of the NQIT team, based in HSE's Northampton office it deals specifically with quarries and opencast coal sites.
Quarry Section
This Section is responsible for policy, legal and generic health and safety issues relating to the quarrying and opencast coal industries as well as stakeholder engagement activities, as part of which it takes an active role in dealing with key stakeholders including:
- Providing support, advice and guidance at a national level to HSE operational inspectors
- Developing and helping deliver HSE's plan of work for manufacturing industries
- Developing strategies to meet the Government's Revitalising Health and Safety targets on reducing injuries and occupational ill health
- Monitoring the health and safety performance of the industry
- Working with key industry stakeholders (eg trade associations, trade unions, professional institutions and committees such as the QNJAC) to improve health and safety
- Producing published guidance for the industry in consultation with key stakeholders
Contact
For general queries on health and safety in the quarries industry the first point of contact should be HSE.
HSE's Quarry Section may be contacted for issues of wider concern at the address:
Phil Smith
HM Principal Inspector
HSE
Lyme Vale Court
Parklands Business Park
Newcastle Road
Trent Vale
Stoke on Trent
ST4 6NW
Roy Bush
HM Inspector
HSE
900 Pavilion Drive,
Northampton Buisiness Park,
Northampton
NN4 7RG
For site-specific issues you should contact the relevant member of the National Quarries Inspection Team:
National Quarries Inspection Team
Colin Mew
HM Principal Inspector
Quarries Inspector Team Leader
Health and Safety Executive
Government Buildings
Ty Glas
Llanishen
Cardiff
CF14 5SH
Quarry Inspectors
Greg Anson - North Yorkshire, Cumbria, Dumfries & Galloway,Northumberland, County Durham
Health and Safety Executive
Arden House
Regent Centre
Gosforth
NE3 3JN
Norrie Buchanan - All Scotland (with exception Dumfries & Galloway)
Health and Safety Executive
Belford House
59 Belford Road
Edinburgh
EH4 3UE
Richard Noble - Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, South,West & East Yorkshire, East Riding, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Rutland, Warwickshire
Health and Safety Executive
Marshall's Mill
Marshall Street
Leeds
LS11 9YJ
Cath Pickett - Bristol, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Wales
Health and Safety Executive
Government Buildings
Ty Glas
Llanishen
Cardiff
CF14 5SH
Mike Tetley - Worcestershire, Shropshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire
Health and Safety Executive
Marshall House
Ringway
Preston
PR1 2HS
For quarries in these counties please contact your local HSE office:
- East & South East: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Isle of Wight, Norfolk, Suffolk, Oxfordshire, Kent, East & West Sussex and Surrey
- South West: Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Dorset