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Jason was paralysed from the waist down due to an avoidable accident on a construction site in 1993 when I was just 24 years old. I only started speaking about my accident in 2009.
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Professor Tim Marsh

Prof Tim Marsh, then at UMIST, was one of the team leaders of the original UK research into behavioural safety (in construction) in the early 1990s.
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Sean Toon

Sean is a speaker and friend of Jason who talks about the impact Jason’s accident has had on him, his family and friends.
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Matt Hazelton

Matt openly talks about the workplace accident that has affected his life forever. Matt was a director of a company and on his site he painfully lost two brothers and two best friends.
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Mike Farmer

Mike has worked with Tim for over 20 years and provides marketing, IT and design support.
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Karen Royle

Karen is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist who has spent many years providing workplace coaching, training and assessments to help people enhance their potential in the workplace.
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Tony Roscoe MSc

Tony is a behavioural psychologist specialising in behavioural change (including safety, health / wellbeing and quality), cultural change and business improvement.
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Paul Blanchard

Paul was in a major accident falling from height several years ago fixing a roof at a farm. He speaks from an emotional perspective on why Health and Safety is not just about ticking boxes.
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Abbi Taylor

Abbi is a speaker, Jason’s daughter and personal assistant. “I was just 3 years old when my dad had his accident at work, and it is still affecting me and my family today.”
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Resources

Professor Tim Marsh is the author of A Definitive Guide to Behavioural Safety, Total Safety Culture and Talking Safety. Chris Jerman is co-author of Risk-Led Safety: Evidence-driven Management. Jason Anker MBE has just published his story in Paralysis to Success - Bounding Back From Adversity. You can purchase these titles through our website.

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DVDs

Jason Anker MBE tells his story in the DVD A Fall From Height. This 16 minute film includes excerpts from Jason’s safety presentations, interviews with his parents and sister and testimony from his spinal injuries consultant. Plus a comprehensive suite of videos produced under the Ryder Marsh banner.

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Articles, blogs and academic papers

Anker and Marsh consultants have published numerous articles and academic papers over the past two decades.

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Links to our partner organisations, mental health websites and safety organisation which we think you will find useful.
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Jason Anker MBE

Jason Anker MBE was paralysed from the waist down due to an avoidable incident on a construction site in 1993 when he fell off a ladder. He was 24 years old.

His story of his life before the incident, the day of the incident, the time spent in hospital and rehab, his initial release from hospital and his struggle with life over the last 25 years is an honest and sometimes graphic account of the devastation the incident has had on Jason and his family & friends.

For 25 years he was unable to talk openly about his experience of a work related major incident. This is reflected in a story that is very raw; the emotion in which he delivers his talk is as strong as if it was the day of the incident.

His unique story has a powerful impact and grabs the attention of those listening, from Directors, Managers, Supervisors and Operatives alike. He is willing to talk openly about all of his experiences, the physical and physiological effects of a major incident

• His Personnel Life
• The Effect on his Family and Friends
• The Cost of an Incident, Financial & Emotional
• His Abuse of Alcohol and Drugs
• His Struggle to get Compensation
• His Commitment to make a Difference

Jason's story is really about being at rock bottom, having the determination to pick yourself up, change direction in life and then trying to make a difference to others. Jason is a regular speaker at functions and after dinner events where he talks about his story, from the evening before the accident, the accident itself, the subsequent rehabilitation and his attempts to put his shattered life back together

Professor Tim Marsh

Prof Tim Marsh, then at UMIST, was one of the team leaders of the original UK research into behavioural safety (in construction) in the early 1990s, is one of only a few Chartered Psychologists who are also Chartered Fellows of IOSH. He is considered a world authority on the subject of behavioural safety, safety leadership and organisational culture, was
awarded a “President’s Commendation” in 2008 by the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management and was selected to be their first ever ‘Specialist Fellow’ in 2010. The British Occupational Hygiene Society asked him to give the key
note opening ‘Warner Lecture’ at their annual international conference in 2013. In 2014 he gave a key note to the Faculty
of Medicine and gave the closing key note at the inaugural Campbell Institute ‘thought leaders’ conference. Opening key
note address at Safeguard New Zealand (May 16).

Made visiting professor at Plymouth University in 2015.

He has worked with more than 400 major organisations around the world, including Apple, the European Space Agency, the WHO
and the UN. Many clients have won both open and in-house awards. He has presented to the European Conference Board and was an expert witness at the “Safety Culture” and “Management of Change” expert forums at the Cullen Inquiry (Ladbroke Grove). As a continuation of the UMIST/HSE research he founded and ran Europe’s largest behavioural safety event for fifteen years from 1997 until 2012 (when it was handed over to LexisNexis via RoSPA).

He ran the “Behavioural Safety” and “Pro-Active Safety Culture” courses for IOSH and created the award winning “Affective Safety Management” concept for the IIRSM. The book of the same name is now one of Europe’s best ever selling safety book – as is the second of Tim’s books “Talking Safety”. A recent third, book “Total Safety Culture” has been was well received but is rather more academic! (Total book sales circa 30,000). Previously a visiting lecturer at Manchester University and Loughborough University.

He has chaired more than a two dozen conferences on Behavioural Safety in the UK and has given key note speeches at major conferences in places such as Dubai, South Africa, Malaysia, USA and India. As well as writing dozens of learned articles for magazines such as the ‘Safety and Health Practitioner (SHP)’, ‘Health and Safety at Work’, Safety Management’, ‘Construction Safety’, ‘Safety International’, The Ergonomist’, ‘Exposure’ (BOHS) ‘India Safe’ and Safeguard’ (New Zealand).

The SHP is the magazine of the world’s largest safety organisation (IOSH). Four times a year they publish a prestigious ‘CPD’ article and (when researching Total Safety Culture) Tim had 5 articles selected as the CPD article in a two year period.

He has worked with media such as the BBC (radio work and selecting and fronting a box set of their “disaster” series) and has written and produced many safety training videos such as “Drive Smarter” and the extensive “Safety Leadership” series with Baker-media as well as such as “There’s Always a Reason” (for Human Focus) and “Safety Watch” (for Outtakes). He produced and directed the ‘Crash Course’ DVD (a commercial spin off of the Staffordshire Police speed and safe driving awareness course.

Sean Toon

Sean speaks alongside Jason's "5 Second" presentation about the impact Jason's accident has had on him, his family and friends.

This provides a powerful and effective angle on Jason's story in the live presentations and provides unexpected impact, as well as highlighting how many people are actually affected by workplace accidents.

Reaching the Brink
This is a health and wellbeing talk where Sean discusses how he bottled up problems in his personal life from a childhood trauma. In his early twenties a series of events nearly took him to the brink, he found a way of coping and it's only in recent years he has found a way to deal with problems head on which has helped him and his family. When this happened to Sean there was no one to speak up to and it is now Sean's goal to encourage people to speak up and listen.

Matt Hazelton

ROSPA RISING STAR AWARD WINNER 2017

Matt openly talks about the workplace accident that has affected his life forever. Matt was a director of a company and on his site he painfully lost two brothers and two best friends. In this emotive hard hitting story Matt discusses the accident itself, the constant hassle he received from the media and the court case he had to endure being a director of the company.

Very hard hitting, raw and effective session from Matt to help increase awareness in all levels of Safety.

Mike Farmer

Mike has been running his own design and marketing business for over 25 years. Prior to that he worked for several UK advertising agencies and worked 'client-side' for a while as a marketing manager.

He has also worked as a business mentor and is a distance learning tutor for the Cambridge Marketing College and a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM).

He writes business and marketing courses for colleges around the UK covering a wide range of topics including digital marketing, personal development, entrepreneurship and business administration. He is also a director of a small charity working in East Africa.

Chris Jerman

Chris began his safety career in the foundries of South Yorkshire having spent his formative years in production management. Schooled largely by the EEF in Sheffield, Chris saw the move from the rule-driven regime of the Factories Act to the more modern risk-led approach offered by the Management Regulations. Where many may have seen risk assessment as a burden, Chris took this new requirement as an opportunity, realising at a very early stage that being risk-centric was the way forward.

Moving from heavy industry, Chris spent several years in consultancy and training, working right across Europe and into the Far East, during which time he had the opportunity to see how various risk models worked; the keys to their success and the common pitfalls too. Joining John Lewis in 2005, Chris had the perfect opening to put into practice all that he had learned, benefiting from all of the support of a renowned and forward looking business.

As a Chartered Fellow of IOSH, Chris has spoken across the UK and throughout Europe, the Far East and the US on the subject of safety risk management. Praised for his approach to making things easier and more effective, Chris co-authored a book on the subject with his long standing friend and colleague, Duncan Spencer.

Chris also wrote and delivered the original Dynamic Risk Assessment course for IOSH as well as a version of the three day Risk Assessment course and the Risk Assessment Train The Trainer package for the Hong Kong Police.

Working across a wide range of industries from steel production to hospitals and education, Chris has an impressive wealth of experience on which to draw when assisting clients who wish to get the most out of what they have.

Karen Royle

Karen is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist who has spent many years providing workplace coaching, training and assessments to help people enhance their potential in the workplace. She has delivered training in both the private and public sector and coaching interventions with front line staff, line managers and senior directors.

Clients include:
Astra Zeneca, BT, Ernst and Young, Lloyds Bank, Manchester Airport, O2, Price Waterhouse, Sainsbury’ as well as many hospital trusts.

As well as basic group training, through coaching and employment based cognitive assessments, Karen supports people to determine modifications and strategies that will enhance vocational potential and workplace skills, to enable people to be ‘the best’ at what they do.

Karen’s more specialist work has been focused on helping people with various health conditions to manage their condition in the workplace. This has ranged from people with mild stress and mental health concerns to those with more extreme head injuries, stroke and long-term conditions.

Karen has presented on these topics on a number of occasions at the national Health & Well-Being at Work conference. She has also conducted workshops for the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL), and the National School of Occupational Health, on coaching for better health at work.

Karen works as an Independent Consultant and Associate to various case management, cognitive assessment, training and coaching focused companies and has worked on various contracts with the Department of Work and Pensions. She also undertakes vocational assessments for insurance and medico-legal work.

Karen is HCPC registered, an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and co-convenor of the Division of Occupational Psychology Health and Well-Being Group.

Tony Roscoe MSc

Tony is a behavioural psychologist specialising in behavioural change (including safety, health / wellbeing and quality), cultural change and business improvement (including Lean and Scrum).Tony has experience in a wide range of industries, including: Utilities, Oil & Gas, Ship Building Defence, Quarrying & Aggregates and Manufacturing. Tony applies strong interpersonal skills to provide in depth support at all levels within a company from front line to board level.

After working with Tim at Ryder-Marsh for many years as a much valued and successful senior consultant Tony chose to embed himself with a client, Kier, as their head of Behavioural Change. Tim is delighted to be working with Tony again

In his spare time he competes in powerlifting and holds the ABPU British record in deadlift and the AWPC world record in “Full Power” which is all three lifts in the same day.

Paul Blanchard

RoSPA ARCHANGEL 2015

Paul works as a motivational & behavioural safety speaker. Having been in a major accident falling from height several years ago fixing a roof at a farm, Paul speaks on the emotional perspective of why Health and Safety is not just about ticking boxes.

The empowerment of staff to feel the responsibility for both their own safety and that of their co-workers does not come from a Health and Safety lecture. With Paul’s story to the same group, he brings a real purpose to the subject. Rather than just going through the motions of H&S conformity, the audience is reached through empathy with someone who has felt the full effect of an industrial accident.

Paul's story is really about the realisation that his life had changed, and having the determination to adapt to the new direction in life and trying to inspire others.

Abbi Taylor

Abbi is Jason’s daughter and his PA and has now taken over his position at Proud2bSafe as Managing Director to help Jason
In his new role alongside Tim with Anker and Marsh.

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