Be the best
you can be…
Securus Health & Safety Limited is a Lancashire-based consultancy established in 2009 by Michael Emery. Michael is a career safety professional who’s managed health and safety for several leading organisations, household names at home and abroad. As a qualified Executive Coach accredited with the Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC), Michael helps other safety professionals be the very best they can be, whether it’s 1:1 coaching support they need or training in the use of coaching skills themselves through the unique IOSH Approved Coaching for safety programme. Michael also helps organisations develop a more person-centred approach to managing health and safety through the development of a coaching culture for safety.
About Michael
Be the best you can be
With our unique, highly-participative, IOSH Approved Coaching for safety programme.
Helping you
be the best you can be
Coaching for Safety
If you believe, as we do, that the role of a safety practitioner is to support managers and help them to exercise their responsibilities for health and safety – that’s why coaches exist, to be collaborative, supportive and helpful.
Health & Safety Training
In addition to our flagship IOSH Approved Coaching for safety programme, we provide health and safety courses that are professionally developed to provide delegates with the knowledge and understanding required to manage health and safety in the workplace.
Health & Safety Development
We have extensive experience of developing new health and safety arrangements for businesses large and small, and of fixing ailing systems that are simply unmanageable. Our approach is entirely consistent with OHSAS 18001.
Health & Safety Radar
To find out where you are on the H&S Radar and receive a free report on the health of your health and safety arrangements, please complete the Radar here.
Our IOSH
Approved Coaching
for Safety course
is proving a great success…
“I agree with others, a great course. I really got a lot out of it and thoroughly enjoyed it too!”
Tony Priest“After two days with Michael and Arnie, my colleagues and I left the training room with our eyes opened. Such an inspirational, motivational and uplifting experience. Without a doubt the best investment in our people we have ever made.“
Carl Beckett“This course, its content and delivery, is nothing short of fantastic!”
Ken Mudd“A must-attend course for any leader or aspiring leader. This course opens the eyes and adds new skills for leading diverse teams.”
Huw Edwards“This course provided the stimulation I needed to sell the safety game better by engaging and empowering our people using coaching techniques. This I believe is the future for our profession.”
Michael Reilly“One of the best training courses I’ve ever been on with fantastic presenters who made it even more enjoyable! An exceptional learning experience, highly recommended for anyone needing to engage with employees or colleagues – it’ll improve your abilities tenfold.”
Emma McCuish“Michael brings coaching to life with humour and assurance. Every safety practitioner needs this course.”
Melanie Boucher“An excellent course, very interesting and relevant. I will be looking to it for the wider team within Muller.”
Graeme Westland“Michael, you’re brilliant. I enjoyed the course hugely. The coaching experience was a challenge but it gave me such a lot. Fab!”
Elaine Hutchinson“Michael opened my eyes (and ears) to the techniques I can use to enhance my coaching skills in the workplace. Absolutely recommended.”
Graeme Christie“The IOSH Approved Coaching for safety course delivered by Michael is a unique, highly participative workshop focused on the essential communication skills that we all need to develop if we want to have real impact in the workplace. This is one of the best courses I have ever attended. Michael has real skill both as a trainer and communicator. This course and coaching skills should be a compulsory part of the professional training and CPD of all practitioners.”
Peter Roddis“I was lucky enough to attend this course in November 2018. Under the impressive leadership and guidance of the course leader, I have rarely found a course when everyone gelled so well, contributed extensively and communicated with respect and insight. Great stuff!”
Simon Growcott“I would absolutely recommend the Coaching for safety course provided by Michael Emery. Experienced and aspiring safety professionals alike should place this course at the top of their MUST do list. Superb!”
Terry McGuinness“What a fantastic and worthwhile two days. Worth every minute and every penny.”
Rebecca Purchase“Coaching for safety should be an essential part of every safety professional’s tool kit. Most of us have the technical skills, but the softer skills of how to influence and persuade others are just as essential. Michael’s great delivery, experience and analogies as a safety practitioner are essential to link the course back to the day job.”
Jon Coneybeare“Without doubt, the single most useful course in my 20-year career in occupational safety and health. I’ve never been so enthused by a course and I can’t wait to practice the techniques.”
Dean Baker“This is exactly the sort of skill development that will take health and safety practitioners forward as mainstream to business success.”
Paul Stirk“I have taken a huge amount away from your course. Without a doubt it’s going to be a real game-changer for me – easily the most worthwhile training experience I have received in a very long time.”
Matt Edwards“A well-structured course, absolutely worthwhile for any professional for self-realisation and for supporting and developing others. Top class delivery.”
Hugh Maxwell“This is essential for the soft skills element of the IOSH Blueprint competency framework.”
Lawrence Bamber“Very very useful. Definitely one of the biggest impacts of any course I have attended and thoroughly recommended to anyone who wants to learn how to help others help themselves.”
Mark Nixon
Latest news
and course information
Here’s where you can keep up-to-date with the latest Securus news and features including details of up-coming courses and original articles on coaching for safety.
We met some really interesting practitioners on our open course in Edinburgh recently and things are shaping up really nicely for the next course in Northampton on 15th and 16th January 2019 … what! 2019 already!? We’re back in the excellent Collingtree Room at the Holiday Inn Express just off Junction 15 of the M1 and needless to say … I can’t wait.
Our e-book on using coaching skills to develop a safer culture is taking a little longer than anticipated but it will happen. I just need to remember, patience is a virtue.
FREE Coaching for safety podcast
Richard Collins of Safeti Health, Safety & Environment is a man on a mission. His aim, no less, is to “break down the barriers to Health, Safety & Environment learning” and one of his strategies for achieving this is to “provide you with valuable, no-nonsense HSE content to help you learn, share and influence.” Richard is well on his way to developing an impressive community through The Safeti Podcast where he boasts that “We bring together some of the brightest minds in the Health, Safety & Environment space to help you supercharge your knowledge, career or business”. Needless to say then, that I was all the more flattered recently, to be invited by Richard to record a podcast on Coaching for safety for his site. What surprised me about the experience of recording the podcast was this. The 5th anniversary of Coaching for safety achieving IOSH Approval earlier this year, provided an obvious opportunity for reflection; thinking back over the journey and in particular, the difficulties in the early days of practitioners not understanding what coaching is and not valuing soft skills. So I didn’t expect to be doing a great deal of reflecting quite so soon. Driven by Richard’s excellent questioning however, reflect I did. Coaching for safety has undoubtedly changed my professional life profoundly. A traditional, systems-based practitioner for over 20-years, discovering the importance of ‘real’ coaching skills and developing what became IOSH Approved Coaching for safety provided a much-needed ‘shot in the arm’ and shoved my career onto an entirely unexpected path. But Richard’s excellent question about what I thought an insightful question was, crystallised a couple... read more
Cerealto’s OH&S Policy Boards
Some companies have manuals available in the supervisor’s office or on a shelf in the safety department. Others have their OH&S policy statements on-line, but not everyone has access to a PC. Others still produce leaflets and distribute them to staff. Some of them might get read but virtually all will get binned or lost. It’s not the most exciting reading material after all; people are only interested when they’re interested and more often than not, that’s when there’s an issue. At Cerealto, they’ve developed a format where the details of a specific OH&S policy, are shown on one side of a piece of paper and posted at the entrance to every department, a very public demonstration of the company’s commitment. People are only interested when they’re interested, but when they are they have immediate access to the company policy which states very clearly, who is going to do what to protect people from … you name it … fork lift trucks, hazardous chemicals, lifting equipment, pressure systems etc. etc. Each OH&S Policy is consulted widely before it is accepted as the standard and posted. If issues arise, they’re an excellent source of reference and the perfect focal point for a conversation about what needs to happen. And if you’re thinking about certification to BS EN 45001, this approach is relevant to so many clauses including OH&S Policy (clause 5.2), Organisational Roles and Responsibilities (5.3), Determination of legal requirements and other requirements (6.1.3), Planning action (6.1.4), Communication (7.4), Operational Planning and Control (8.1) and Evaluation of compliance (9.1.2b) and perhaps more besides. We’re not quite finished yet, but we’re getting... read more
IOSH Approved Coaching for safety – Edinburgh
Our second open IOSH Approved Coaching for safety course north of the border will be at the Holiday Inn Edinburgh on Tuesday 13th and Wednesday 14th November. It seems like a long way off but we’re already taking bookings so if you’re interested in attending … don’t leave it too late. You can download a booking form here. What’s the course about? IOSH Approved Coaching for safety was designed to provide OSH practitioners with the skills that under-pin a collaborative and supportive style. Equipping your team with coaching skills will help them support their colleagues to achieve goals and solve problems but it will also help them to develop their colleagues. At a macro level, that’s how cultures can be changed, gradually gradually, developing the resources you have. Whilst the course was designed for practitioners, to complement the technical knowledge they acquire through NEBOSH or other similar courses, because it’s not a technical course itself, it’s really suitable for anyone and we often have seasoned safety professionals sat next to rookies new to the profession sat next to non-safety people and it works beautifully. Coaching for safety is a highly-participative course structured around a series of live coaching sessions involving real-life subject matter delegates bring themselves – there is absolutely no role play. It’s extremely engaging and we normally manage to have a few laughs too … which can’t be bad. You really should try it... read moreGet in touch
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M: 0792 191 4099
E: michael@securushealthandsafety.co.uk
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