Philip Gobvu

Suitability to the Role

I am a qualified BSc Construction Management graduate and H&S Manager with invaluable years of experience in the built industry working in varied construction site environments, covering a range of different project types and roles.

I have experience in rail, banking, education, retail, office fitouts, and housing sectors

I am passionate about adopting and improving Health and Safety Systems and working with site personnel to improve their working conditions. I have also worked previously as a Health and Safety Systems Developer, focusing on behavioural change and H&S technologies.

Outside work I enjoy Charity Work and giving to others and presently I am a Trustee for a faith-based charity, and in my previous role for NatWest Group I collaborated with Charities like the Lighthouse Construction Charity. I was also a member of the Wellbeing Implementation Committee, Risk Committee, and Disability Working Group for NatWest.

Relevance of Experience

• Ensuring vision and H&S Strategy
• Setting up H&S Systems
• Introducing new technologies
• Notifying and liaising with the Health and Safety Executive
• Full Understanding of all Duty Holder Roles
• Assisting the client with ensuring that suitable management arrangements are made for the project (This may include the performance of design audits and construction site audits and inspections)
• Identifying and collecting the pre-construction information and providing it in a convenient form to designers, the principal contractor, and other contractors.
• Advising the client on the sufficiency of the time allocated for all phases of the project.
• Ensuring that the design complies with the requirements of the regulations, including any designs undertaken by designers from other countries.
• Ensuring that the designers and the principal/ Main contractor cooperate.
• Assisting the client with verifying the sufficiency of the construction phase plan to commence construction and the adequacy of the welfare provisions.
• Preparing the health and safety file or reviewing and updating an existing health and safety file and passing it to the client at the end of construction.