About Chris Stops and Associates are work place safety advisors and facilitators. For many years they have helped both large and small businesses in the UK, Continental Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Their innovative methods and exceptional communication abilities have enabled them to work with businesses of all sizes and all types. Their focus is on finding the most appropriate methods of achieving British legal compliance with health and safety legislation or applying International best practice. Please visit the Client and Case Studies pages for more information and our Services and Training Courses pages for more the services which can be provided. About Chris stops Chris Stops’ expertise has evolved over the last 25 years from both practical experience and academic training. Academic qualifications Bachelor of Arts (politics and sociology) Bachelor of Engineering (mechanical) Masters of Science (safety management)
Professional qualifications Chartered Mechanical Engineer. (CEng) Chartered member of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. (CMIOSH) Professional connections and involvement Chair of the Thames Valley Branch of the Institution of Safety and Health. (IOSH) Member of the Instituition of Mechanical Engineers Safety and Reliability Human Factors working group. Associate of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. (CIPD) Member of the Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce. Publications Chris Stops dissertation "Added Value from Health and Safety" is available to visitors who complete our contact form “Strategic human resource management may give rise to improved safety management: a case study” (available as a free document upon completion of our contact form. Chris Stops' background He has worked professionally on 5 continents – Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Australia in and around the packaging and mining industries. This has exposed him to a broad spectrum of industrial environments – from pharmaceuticals, through the food industry, paper, and steel mills, to underground coal and gold mines. Additionally he has been exposed to the contrasting safety cultures of these continents. Africa and Australia lay at the extremes of these during the 1980’s when Africa saw human life as being plentiful and expendable, and Australia took the opposite view. At that time Australia’s workers’ compensation / employers’ liability claims led the world in terms of their size, particularly for computer keyboard induced repetitive strain injuries. The fear of similar levels being reached in Europe was a partial reason for the development of the Visual Display Screen Equipment regulations in the early 1990s. The culmination of this varied experience is a belief that solutions to safety management problems are intrinsically linked to the business culture in which they occur and must be chosen accordingly. From the mid 1990’s onwards he was responsible for the day to day planning and implementation of health and safety at a carton manufacturing site. This was allied to the implementation of a Royal Society of Health hygiene accreditation standard, and ensuring smooth implementation was integrated in a more general manufacturing cultural change programme. He was also responsible for liaising with statutory authorities for health and safety. | 
