Louise Hosking is a risk management specialist with over 23 years experience within a variety of blue chip and public sector organisations specialising in project managing the creation and implementation of safety, health & environmental management systems and procedures within any type of organisation to develop positive safety strategies and mitigate risk. The main being to help organisations to create healthy, happy and safe workplaces that enjoy all the benefits of operating in a sustainable and environmentally friendly manner. Louise is an Experienced Team Manager, Chartered Safety & Health Practitioner, OSHCR Registered Consultant, Qualified Environmental Health Officer, Director and sole owner of Hosking Associates Ltd which was established in July 2005. After graduating from Nottingham Trent University in 1991 Louise worked as an Environmental Health Officer for Cambridge City Council instigating several successful prosecutions under Food Safety and Health & Safety legislation which has given her a unique insight into the role of the enforcement officer and being in court. From here she moved to The Co-Operative working as a Regional Environmental Health & Safety Manager responsible for Food Safety, Health & Safety and Sustainability throughout a region of around 250 units ranging from superstores, departments stores, TV Repair depots and Funeral Parlours within a team of other professionals working with senior operational managers to manage risk within tight budgetary restraints Her previous experience meant that she was able to fend off formal legal action against the business on a number of occasions working with enforcement agencies to reach mutually acceptable standards of compliance. She then worked in consultancy initially as a CDM Co-ordinator (Construction Design and Management) for a smaller organisation working with clients instigating significant refurbishment and building projects then later becoming more involved in the commercial property sector for clients such as CBRichard Ellis and Jones Lang La Sallle (JLL) with a much larger, national consultancy. JLL would later become future clients of Hosking Associates. In early 2001 Louise joined global property company, Savills, to become their first Head of Environmental Health & Safety. The role developed beyond the initial remit to oversee standards within the commercial property division to cover all sectors of the business including rural property management through to, building consultancy and high value estate agency across 70 offices within the UK. She created a small dedicated, self financing team to undertake this work establishing robust management systems from scratch. Hosking Associates was created in 2005 in response to Louise’s work at Savills where she was often frustrated with the role of engaged Health & Safety consultants to manage key areas even where resources were made available for them to do so. Hosking Associates is therefore dedicated to providing a strong project management approach helping companies reach their full potential.
