Head of Commercial Vehicle Incident Prevention, National Highways

Mark Cartwright

Mark Cartwright joined National Highways in 2020 to head up their Commercial Vehicle Incident Prevention Team. The team’s role is to reduce collisions on the SRN involving commercial vehicles.

Prior to joining National Highways, Mark was with Freight Transport Association for over 30 years where he developed and managed their award winning Van Excellence programme.

Health, Safety & Sustainability Director, MAKE UK

Chris Newson

As Environment, Health & Safety Director, Chris leads on Make UK’s mission to promote and improve health, safety, and environmental management in organisations across the UK. Chris hosts Make UK’s EHS podcast, Root Cause Analysis, and is regularly invited to speak at industry events. Chris and his team support over 600 members and deliver more than 10,000 training and consultancy days per year. Prior to joining Make UK, Chris was QHSE Manager at Alstom Power

Group HSE Director, SIG Plc

Julie Westcott

Experienced HSE Director with a demonstrated history of working in the logistics and manufacturing industries. Skilled in Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS), Strategy, Integration, Risk Management, Continuous Improvement and cultural change through leadership & engagement. Actively enjoys mentoring, coaching and facilitating to improve understanding, standards and HSE mind-set.

SHEQ & Sustainability Director, Gist

Dan Platten

GIST Exco Director responsible for SHEQ & Sustainability teams covering all operations in UK & Ireland and Global Freight in addition to being responsible for ESG.

Now part of the M&S Group, GIST is a logistics company employing over 6000 people operating, owning and running large warehouses whilst operating a significant large truck fleet through primary and secondary networks. 24/7 364 days a year we move chilled, perishable, ambient and hazardous products by air, sea and land.

Director of Health and Safety - Selfridges UK

Ben King

A pragmatic and experienced H&S professional currently responsible for the strategic direction of health and safety for Selfridges UK

VP HR, GXO Logistics, Inc.

Mark Simmons

An Experienced & commercial Human Resources Director with significant change management experience gained in Manufacturing , FMCG and logistics and supply chain industries. Skilled in Talent Management, Performance Management, HR Strategy, Employee Engagement, and Employee Relations. Strong communicator, negotiator and influencer.

Managing Director, Acting Up

Emma Currie

Acting Up’s engaging sessions are simply therapeutic conversations about culture where the workforce identify positive behaviour changes to impact their Health & Safety, Wellbeing, Leadership and general Culture. We get people to talk and to hear each other.
We work largely with operatives in heavy industry but the process is simple and applies in any sector at any level from frontline to senior management. Founder Emma Currie also speaks at conferences and runs masterclasses on how to generate engagement within the workforce. She has written a book about this simple process called The Philosophy of the Red Shoes.

Managing Director, Anker & Marsh

Tim Marsh

RyderMarsh specialised in organisational safety culture and leadership with a 20 year track record of improving culture and enabling excellence for organisations and NGOs around the world. Joing forces with Europe’s leading inspirational safety speaker, Jason Anker, to address the wellbeing and mental health arena Anker & Marsh are joined by Chris Jerman who adds his decades of operational experience of risk management.