CIEH Health and Safety Conference

Adele Masztalerz, Head of Safety Management, Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust. Adele Masztalerz is a Chartered Fellow, with more than two decades of experience spanning local government, the NHS, consultancy, major events and the charity sector. She is currently Head of Safety Management at the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, where she leads national strategy, assurance and culture‑change work across multiple UK and international sites.

Adele has spent her career applying core environmental health principles in diverse and high‑risk settings. Alongside her day job, she supports the profession through roles such as Chair of the Conservation Safety Network, leading the CIEH Health & Safety Coffee Catch‑Up, and various volunteering positions such as mentoring.

Annmarie Staunton, Senior Policy Advisor, HSE. Annmarie is a senior policy officer with more than twenty‑five years of experience in health and safety regulation. She began her career in local government as an environmental health officer, where she developed extensive expertise as a health and safety inspector. Over the past five years, she has worked in the civil service, combining operational insight with strategic policy and guidance development to help shape the regulatory landscape. In her current role at the Health and Safety Executive, she is part of the team responsible for leading the local authority co‑regulatory partnership. Annmarie also provides technical support and industry stakeholder engagement for the leisure, entertainment, fairgrounds, and commercial services policy areas.

Calvin Hanks, Msc PgC CMIOSH FIIRSM MCIEH TechIOA MIFSM AIFireE, Principal Consultant, Calvin Hanks Safety Services. Calvin is a very experienced event health and safety advisor who has worked in live event safety for over 20 years.  A Chartered Safety and Health Professional, he additionally holds an MSc in Environmental health and brings real life experience to understanding risk on live events, TV productions and festivals.  Alongside this he is Institute of Acoustics qualified in Noise at Work and Environmental Noise Monitoring and a registered Fire Risk Assessor, and brings all this into understanding safety on live events.

Heather Beach, Founder, Healthy Work Company. Heather Beach is the founder and CEO of the Healthy Work Company (HWC), which delivers tailored employee wellbeing programs to businesses across the UK. With over 30 years of senior experience in Health & Safety, HR, and employee management, she helps organizations set measurable wellbeing targets. HWC is a thriving business with over 200 blue chip clients, including Carlsberg and Eurotunnel. Heather advocates using the "prevent, promote, support" model to create conditions for people to thrive at work. She is also the author of the manager's handbook,I'm a boss, not a shrink, which provides practical advice on manager wellbeing conversations. Additionally, she is the founder and chair of Women in Health and Safety, focusing on diversity and inclusion. As a single mum to Rosie, she strives to practice what she preaches.

Kevin Thomas, Health and Safety Business Partner, Biffa. Kevin is Health and Safety professional with over 10 years of experience in supporting organisations develop strong and resilient safety cultures and a career spanning multiple critical roles across retail, logistics, transport, engineering and waste management sectors. He currently works at Biffa Waste Management Services as a Health and Safety Business Partner and an ISO 45001 certified lead auditor where he is responsible for overseeing health and safety performance for the industrial and commercial operations.

Kevin holds a level 5 diploma in Occupational Safety and Health Practice and is a Certified Member of IOSH with a proven track record of delivering behavioural and cultural change programmes and enhancing safety performance in complex environments. He is also highly experienced in delivering measurable improvements in safety compliance, risk management and employee safety engagement. Outside of work, Kevin is an avid carpentry hobbyist and cyclists.

Paul Spurrier, Head of the HSE's Local Authority Team. Paul is part of the Technical Support and Engagement Group in HSE’s Engagement and Policy Division. His team has the strategic and policy lead for the coregulatory partnership between Local Authorities and HSE as well as portfolio lead for the entertainments, customer and consumer services, leisure and fairgrounds sectors. Paul has been with HSE for 37 years, in a variety of roles including, front line regulation of  health and safety legislation in a range of different sectors, operational research, HR and development roles, frontline operational management and policy development roles.  He has worked in several of HSE’s Divisions including Field Operations, Human Resources, Major Hazards, Chemicals Regulation Division and Engagement and Policy Division.

Ruth Wilkinson, Head of Policy and Public Affairs, IOSH. Ruth oversees development and delivery of IOSH’s advocacy, influence and policy engagements. She represents IOSH on external strategic committees and at large-scale global events including the International Labour Conference. As a chartered health and safety professional with experience of working in manufacturing and the public and charitable sectors, she has vast knowledge of health and safety management. Ruth holds BSc first-class combined honours in health and safety management and environmental science and technology, completed in 2004, and MSc in occupational health and industrial hygiene completed in 2009. Ruth is also a Trustee of the Hazards Forum.