Who we are

Richard is a family man and has a keen interest in environmental matters and particularly those linked in any way with recycling and re-use to help reduce the environmental impact on the world’s limited and ever dwindling resources. He has been a Director of CCORRN for several years now and he is currently employed as Health, Safety & Environment Management Advisor and Domestic Fire Officer for Marshall Aerospace, Marshall Land Systems, Marshall Specialist Vehicles, Marshall Vehicle Engineering and Marshall Systems Design Group as well as overseas Marshall locations. Responsible for advising all Group CEO’s and Board Members on matters of HS&E compliance and best practice. Responsible for management and updating of all H&S Management Policies, Accident Investigation and H&S Training delivery. Point of contact for liaison with all external H&S enforcement agencies. Member of EEF Health & Safety Committee and Cambridge Occupational Safety Group (COSG) and also serve as a voluntary Board Director for CCORRN (Cambridgeshire Community Recycle & Reuse Network).

Richard was previously employed as Group Health Safety & Environment Officer for MAHLE Powertrain Ltd, a complex, highly specialised and multi-faceted automotive casting machining and manufacturing organisation with it’s own UK Foundry. Richard was charged with responsibility for ensuring legal compliance at a corporate level through strategic planning of HS&E policies and procedures. Also responsible for authoring and delivering bespoke, targeted training sessions to all levels of the workforce to create greater levels of awareness and buy-in to HSE requirements. Strategic management of EMS to ensure sustainability of EMAS registration and ISO14001:2004 accreditation. Remit included integration and amalgamation of MPT UK Policies with MAHLE Global policies & procedures. Trained by LRQA and qualified as Lead Auditor for ISO14001 Standard and OHSAS 18001 Specification.

Prior to this Richard was employed as the Health, Safety, Environmental and Production Engineering Manager for Gates Hydraulics Ltd. Richard retired from the Royal Air Force in 1995 after a pensionable engagement of nearly seventeen years. Richard's career within the RAF began as an Aircraft Engineering Technician and ended following some radical life-changing decisions (together with considerable re-training) as an Environmental Health Inspector and Occupational Hygiene specialist. Richard then served several years with Cotswold District Council Environmental Health Department as a Specialised Food Safety & Health and Safety Enforcement Inspector before moving on to head up Lidl UK GmbH as their UK Food Safety, H&S, Customer Services and Trading Standards Manager for several years.

Paid and voluntary work career spanning 20 years including the founding of several service based community social enterprises with charitable aims.

An experienced director of many organisations including Director of the National Childminding Association and latterly a Parish Councillor with specific responsibility for Wimblington and Stonea Allotments.

With an employment history that includes, quality assurance system initiation and implementation, design and marketing incl. direct sales and campaign management, event conception and co-ordination, teaching of adult learners at various colleges,  training design and delivery, community and organisational and behavioural change development work, research team manager, network support and co-ordination, project management incl risk analysis and currently fulfilling the role of Programme Manager encompassing several key projects, consultancy services and the Operational Management of CCORRN.

Recruitment, social networking, training , counselling and helping disadvantaged people to motivate themselves and make positive changes in their lives.