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Our consultant service is comprehensive in identifying gaps and opportunities that support your organisation in reaching its goals. We offer a suite of quality solutions that will help you get there quickly and smoothly. That’s how we ensure your success.
Mission statement – Simply put, our mission is to Prevent Injuries and Save Lives.
Consultant profile
Hash Navsaria, Managing Director and Consultant
A pragmatic Safety Consultant and with a proven history of driving high-level change projects across complex business markets. With over 40 years of insight, Hash has supported businesses by steering major restructurings, ensuring robust corporate governance frameworks and engaging employees at all levels. Both an adept communicator and trusted collaborator, he has facilitated cross-collaborative operations to empower teams, transform working cultures and guide continuous improvements. An invaluable asset to the board room, Hash has provided constructive challenges, navigated highly regulated environments and identified consensus to unite businesses under a shared vision, inform strategic direction and improve overall efficiencies.
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Career chronology
CAREER CHRONOLOGY
- Managing Director & Consultant, Safer Together Ltd 2015 – Present
- Safety Manager: Corporate HESQ, Yara AS 2005 – 2015
- Supply Operations Manager, Yara UK Ltd. 2004 – 2005
- HR and HESQ Manager, Yara AS and Yara UK Ltd 2000 – 2004
- Kaizen Facilitator, Yara UK Ltd. 1994 – 1999
- Plant Manager Ammonium Nitrate Fertilizer, Yara UK Ltd. 1989 – 1994
- Assistant Plant Manager, Hydro UK Ltd. 1988 – 1989
- Project/Commissioning Engineer, Norsk Hydro UK Ltd. 1985 – 1988
- Process Engineer, Yara AS Fisons Fertilizers Ltd. 1978 – 1985
EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
- Magistrate (Adult & Family), Leicestershire and Rutland Bench
- Volunteer, Leicester NHS Trust Hospital
- Health and Safety, Nebosh Diploma I, ROSPA
- Human Resources Management, Manchester Open Learning
- Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering & Management Economics, University of Bradford
Key achievements
- Initiated, developed and implemented Yara’s seminal ‘Safe by Choice’ process to cultivate a culture of care and reduce exposure to deliver a goal of zero injuries. Successfully reduced the total recordable injury rate from greater than 10 per million hours worked to 1.4 and facilitated significant cultural change to produce effective safety leader and engaged employees and contractors.
- Empowered staff through coaching and mentoring and delivered training and development initiatives across technical safety areas, safety leadership, facilitation and problem solving.
- Managed the integration of new acquisitions following major expansion across 25 production plants including Brazil, Canada, Australia and South America, with responsibility for ensuring the highest standards of occupational safety across the global arena.
- Ensured robust governance frameworks by owning safety technical standards and procedures, including incident reporting, incident investigation and contractor safety management.
- Drove continuous improvement by mobilising a team of 4 internal consultants to build a behavioural-based programme, identifying and analysing key risks and managed process implementation across the Yara plants.
- Identified a cost effective safety tool and subsequently implemented a single company wide incident reporting and follow up tool concerned with health and safety, quality and audits, improving overall efficiencies across the business.
- Pioneered HR restructuring initiatives throughout the UK business and delivered an objective performance related scheme with Yara International and led a structured salary and performance related pay system that was equitable across the UK organisation.
- Played a significant contribution role in ensuring the continuation of the UK ammonium nitrate industry and forged strategic partnerships with the DEFRA to establish The Ammonium Nitrate Safety Regulations 2003.