Richard Milburn — EHS Readiness Dashboard

Overview

A working evidence base for Operations, Continuous Improvement, and EHS leadership roles — including co-implementing SafetyQube, an EHS (environment, health, and safety) management system, on the Caravan Assembly Line at Erwin Hymer Group UK, alongside an honest, in-progress self-assessment against the current ISO 14001 environmental management standard.

108

Reports personally raised via SafetyQube (102 near misses and hazards, 6 accident reports)

93%

Design Change Request close rate on the 29 I raised, of 38 site-wide

29

Operatives led across 260 processes, 86 of them critical

21

Years, shop floor to Cell Leader (2004–2026)

Approach

"I've spent 21 years learning what actually changes behaviour on a shop floor — not policy documents, but people trusting that raising a problem leads to it being fixed. Formal frameworks like ISO 14001 give that instinct a structure. This dashboard is where I'm building that structure on top of what I already know works."

Safety Evidence

Outcomes from co-implementing SafetyQube, an EHS management system, and driving root-cause corrective action on a 29-person team across 260 processes, 11 of them fully skilled on the matrix.

Near-Miss Reporting vs Accident Frequency — Aug 2024 to Feb 2026

Monthly counts by date of occurrence, from an export of the site incident management system. SafetyQube logging began in April 2025, so the near-zero months before then are reports added afterwards, not a measured baseline. Accident reports for August to December 2024 were entered in bulk in June 2025. No hours worked are available, so this chart shows counts only, not an accident rate or a trend.

Near-miss reporting — SafetyQube

Personal close rate
108 of 108 show as closed

Share of all
site reports

Top reporter on site: 108 reports, against 52 for the next highest. 324 reports were logged from April 2025 to March 2026 by 22 people. My own reports rose from 19 in April to June 2025 to 45 in October to December 2025.

Accident reports by month of occurrence: 13 from April to December 2025 and 4 in January and February 2026. That is too short a series to show a trend, and without hours worked it cannot give an accident rate.

All 108 of my reports show as closed in the export, 21 of them in one batch on 8 January 2026, so a closed status here does not show the risk was removed. One needed investment that the site closure prevented, so the risk was left unresolved. Site-wide, 323 of 324 reports were closed (99.7%). The one open record is an accident report raised by someone else, still under investigation.

Design Change Requests

Raised by Richard
29 of 38 site-wide

Close rate
on those raised

Process: EOL fault identified → root cause traced to design → DCR raised via SOP 4374 → engineering approval → implemented on line.

EHS Readiness — ISO 14001:2026

A working self-assessment against BSI's ISO 14001:2026 Transition Readiness Checklist. Tick what you can genuinely stand behind in an interview — this tracks your own developing EHS management knowledge, not a claim that Erwin Hymer Group holds ISO 14001 certification.

How to use this: a checked box means you understand the requirement well enough to speak to it confidently and know how you'd apply it — not that a former employer had this formally certified. Your progress saves automatically in this browser.

What's New in ISO 14001:2026 — interview talking points

Published 15 April 2026, replacing the 2015 edition (a 3-year transition applies, to about April 2029, with exact dates set by certification bodies). Most of the standard carries over — these are the points genuinely worth being able to speak to:

Clause 6.3 — new

A brand-new clause requiring a structured change management process for the EMS itself — not carried over from 2015, so worth knowing cold.

Clause 4.1 / 4.2

Climate change is now an explicit, required part of context analysis and interested-party review — not optional background.

Clause 6.1.2

Environmental aspects must now explicitly consider upstream and downstream (life cycle) impacts, not just on-site activity.

Clause 8.1 — broadened

Scope widens from "outsourced processes" to the fuller "externally provided processes, products, and services."

Clause 9.2 — sharpened

Each internal audit now needs its own defined objectives — a specific, checkable requirement rather than just "have a programme."

Structural

Now follows the Harmonised Structure, aligning EMS clauses with ISO 45001 and ISO 9001 — knowledge here transfers directly to H&S management systems.

H&S Management System — POPMAR

A working self-assessment against the POPMAR model from the original HSE HS(G)65 guidance: Policy, Organising, Planning, Measuring performance, Auditing and Reviewing. It remains a widely used framework for building an effective health and safety management system.

How to use this: same principle as the EMS tab — a checked box means you understand the requirement well enough to speak to it confidently, not a claim that a former employer had a certified OH&S management system in place. Progress saves automatically in this browser.

Context — where this model sits today

The source material for this section references BS8800 and OHSAS 18001 — useful history, but both have since been superseded. Worth knowing the timeline for an interview:

HSG65: POPMAR to Plan, Do, Check, Act

POPMAR (Policy, Organising, Planning, Measuring performance, Auditing and Reviewing) comes from the original HS(G)65. HSE's 2013 revision, "Managing for Health and Safety", moved to a Plan, Do, Check, Act approach. The POPMAR elements still map onto it, so be ready to link the two.

BS8800:1996 → OHSAS 18001

BS8800 was the guidance standard that fed into OHSAS 18001/18002 (1999–2000) — the first certifiable OH&S management system standard.

OHSAS 18001 → ISO 45001

OHSAS 18001 was withdrawn and superseded by ISO 45001:2018, the current international standard for OH&S management systems — migration completed by March 2021.

Why it still matters

ISO 45001 shares the same Harmonised Structure as ISO 14001:2026 — the POPMAR thinking below maps closely onto it, so this self-assessment is still useful practice, not just history.

Systems vs. programmes

A classic NEBOSH distinction worth having ready: a safety programme just checks compliance with reactive indicators (accident counts); a safety system is a true open system — it has a feedback loop and also measures the input and process side, not just the outcome.

Legal grounding: MHSWR 1999

The Planning items on emergency procedures map to real legislation: Reg 3 (risk assessment), Reg 5 (H&S arrangements: planning, organisation, control, monitoring and review), and Reg 8 (procedures for serious and imminent danger). Good to cite by number in an interview.

Qualifications Roadmap

Formal certification, layered on top of 21 years of applied practice.

Completed

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

CSSC Accredited, July 2026

Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt

CSSC Accredited, July 2026

IOSH Managing Safely / Working Safely

Leadership and Management Development Programme

Graduate

Supervisory and Management Training in H&S

Graduate

NVQ Level 2 in Team Leading

NVQ Level 2 in Business Improvement Techniques

NVQ Level 2 in Supply Chain Management

NEBOSH-Verified AI in Occupational Safety and Health

AI Fluency Certification ×6

Anthropic Academy, 2026

In progress

NEBOSH General Certificate

AI in Manufacturing Certification