Experience

RMS Switzerland

• Switzerland
• Professional Training and Coaching
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Partner

  • Jan 2015 - Present

  RMS is a boutique consulting firm specialising in leadership and culture, with a focus on safety, wellbeing and sustainability. Our clients are top tier Fortune 500 sector leaders around the world, and we enjoy partnering to the C-suite and senior leadership teams with our innovative workshops, transformation programs, and one-to-one coaching. RMS is a boutique consulting firm specialising in leadership and culture, with a focus on safety, wellbeing and sustainability. Our clients are top tier Fortune 500 sector leaders around the world, and we enjoy partnering to the C-suite and senior leadership teams with our innovative workshops, transformation programs, and one-to-one coaching.



One Percent Safer

• United Kingdom
• Public Safety
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder and Chairman of the Board

  • Apr 2020 - Present

  One Percent Safer is the innovative non-profit organisation built to improve workplace safety by just 1% with a view to saving thousands of lives each year. The One Percent Safer Foundation specifically supports occupational safety and health (OSH) professionals in 3 ways: The prevention or relief of poverty, the advancement of education, and the advancement of citizenship and community development. Find out more and join the movement at onepercentsafer.com One Percent Safer is the innovative non-profit organisation built to improve workplace safety by just 1% with a view to saving thousands of lives each year. The One Percent Safer Foundation specifically supports occupational safety and health (OSH) professionals in 3 ways: The prevention or relief of poverty, the advancement of education, and the advancement of citizenship and community development. Find out more and join the movement at onepercentsafer.com



IOSH

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 200 - 300 Employee

• 53rd President of the Institution of Occupational Safety & Health

  • Oct 2020 - Present

• President

  • Sep 2019 - Oct 2020

• President Elect

  • Sep 2018 - Sep 2019

• Author

  • Jan 2017 - Aug 2019

  Andrew is the author of the accompanying textbook for the new UK national Level 3 qualification 'Safety & Health for Business', provided by IOSH - the Institution of Occupational Safety & Health.'Safety and Health for Business' has been developed in collaboration with highly-respected Ofqual-regulated awarding organisation NCFE, which has a wealth of experience in designing qualifications for business.Cost-effective and time-efficient compared to other qualifications, 'Safety and Health for Business' is designed to be highly relevant for businesses so up-and-coming practitioners understand how their specialist safety and health knowledge and skills align with and support their organisations’ business strategies and objectives.Find out more at: https://www.iosh.co.uk/News/Safety-and-Health-for-Business.aspx

• Vice President

  • Sep 2015 - Sep 2018

• Vice Chairman Of The Board, Trustee & NED

  • Nov 2008 - Sep 2018

  I served as Trustee and Vice Chairman of the Board (2008-2014) and as Non Executive Director of IOSH Services Ltd, the commercial arm of IOSH. IOSH is the world's only chartered body for health and safety professionals. With more than 48,000 members in 100 countries it's also the world's biggest health and safety organisation. Founded in 1945, IOSH is a registered charity with international NGO status.IOSH sets standards and supports, develops and connect members with resources, guidance, events and training. IOSH is the voice of the profession and campaigns on issues that affect millions of working people, striving for a world of work which is safe, healthy and sustainable.



One Parent Families Scotland

• United Kingdom
• Individual and Family Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Board Trustee and Non Executive Director

  • Aug 2021 - Present

  After the sudden death of my mother when I was 11 years old, I grew up in a one parent family. I feel honoured to have the opportunity to now serve One Parent Families Scotland as a Board Trustee and Non-Executive Director. Established in 1944, One Parent Families Scotland (OPFS) is the leading charity working with single parent families in Scotland. We provide expert advice, practical support and campaign with parents to make their voices heard to change the systems, policies and attitudes that disadvantage single parent families. Our vision is of a Scotland in which single parents and their children are valued and treated equally and fairly. Our mission is to work with and for single parent families, providing support services that enable them to achieve their potential and help create lasting solutions to the poverty and barriers facing many single parents and their children.



CEDEP - Executive Development – Fontainebleau

• France
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Professor & Program Director

  • Jan 2016 - Present

  CEDEP, the first international executive education club, brings together people, values and ideas from around the world to explore and change the way leaders think and act. Each year nearly 2,000 participants from 20 member companies, including some of the world’s leading businesses, take time out to reflect, challenge conventions and assumptions to build a better way forward and increase their impact. That makes CEDEP a unique object in the world of executive education and "one of its best kept secrets", as the Financial Times' business education editor Della Bradshaw put it.I'm Program Director of the Leadership & Safety Culture program, an immersive residential executive program for top leaders, also teaching on this program and others at CEDEP including the hugely popular Achieving Managerial Excellence program. Find out more at: https://www.cedep.fr/programmes/leadership-safety-culture-programme-lsc/

• Professor of Leadership & Safety Culture

  • Jan 2016 - Present

  CREATING A SAFETY CULTURE IN A HIGH RELIABILITY ORGANISATIONOur residential executive program helps leaders from all sectors to rise to the many challenges involved in creating a safety culture that really does lead to high performance. Middle and senior-level executives from all areas who would like to enhance their leadership skills by creating and maintaining outstanding safety standards – and vice versa. The programme is particularly useful for senior managers and those expecting to move into senior management in the future



Maverick Eagle Press

• Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Author

  • Mar 2014 - Present

  Andrew is the author of six books for Maverick Eagle Press, including the global best-selling book on safety culture and leadership 'From Accidents to Zero' and the ground-breaking 'Mind Your Own Business: What your MBA should have taught you about health & Safety' co-authored with Dame Judith Hackitt, 'Safety Savvy', 'Happy & Here', and 'Working Well'. From Accidents to Zero - a practical guide to improving your workplace safety culture http://fromaccidentstozero.com/product/from-accidents-to-zero/ Safety Savvy: What you need to know to live longer in a dangerous and uncertain world http://fromaccidentstozero.com/product/safety-savvy/ Mind Your Own Business: What your MBA should have taught you about workplace safety http://fromaccidentstozero.com/product/mind-your-own-business/ Working Well: What you need to know to live a longer, happier, healthier life http://fromaccidentstozero.com/product/working-well/ All of Andrew's books are available at https://www.FromAccidentsToZero.com



Various International Professional Conferences

• Keynote Speaker

  • Jan 2002 - Present

  I'm currently speaking at around 6-10 professional development events each year, drop my team a note at team@RMSswitzerland.com if you'd like me to come speak at your conference, congress or corporate event. I'm currently speaking at around 6-10 professional development events each year, drop my team a note at team@RMSswitzerland.com if you'd like me to come speak at your conference, congress or corporate event.



The Institute of Leadership & Management

• United Kingdom
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chairman Of The Board

  • Jun 2017 - Dec 2020

  The Institute of Leadership & Management is a professional membership body that connects like-minded people with the shared purpose of inspiring great leadership everywhere. Our research and events programme is designed to inform, inspire and impact the practice of leadership wherever it happens. When you join us you become part of a world-renowned professional body of more than 30,000 leaders, managers and coaches who are all passionate about the transformational power of great leadership. Check out how we do things here: https://www.institutelm.com



Earth Focus Foundation

• Switzerland
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Non Executive Director & Member of the Board

  • Jul 2014 - Dec 2019

  The Earth Focus Foundation was founded in 2005, continuing the work started by Bellerive Foundation. The Earth Focus Foundation is a Swiss foundation, which is continuing the work with young people started within the renowned Bellerive Foundation. The Bellerive Foundation was founded by the late Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan in Switzerland in 1977. Its major programmes focused on the link between the scarcity of natural resources and poverty in the developing world; the preservation of fragile mountain ecosystems; animal protection; and initiatives in environmental education. The aim of the Earth Focus Foundation is to empower youth to take on roles in which they actively create a more sustainable world. Earth Focus provides a platform to encourage youth to express their views on the environment and solutions to ecological problems and serves as a voice to promote these views to other youth as well as to the public. The Foundation aims to help young people understand the beauties and limits of the world in which they live and to encourage them to act and share their experience and feelings, with other communities.



LID business media

• United Kingdom
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Author

  • Nov 2017 - Feb 2019



Taylor & Francis Group

• United Kingdom
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Author

  • Jan 2014 - Jan 2019

  Andrew is the author of two books for Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group) including the global best-seller 'From Accidents to Zero' (Second Edition, Hardback, 2016) and 'Naked Safety' (2018). Pick up your copy at Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Accidents-Zero-Practical-Improving-Workplace/dp/1472477030/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1517864948&sr=1-1&refinements=p_27%3AAndrew+Sharman) Andrew is the author of two books for Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group) including the global best-seller 'From Accidents to Zero' (Second Edition, Hardback, 2016) and 'Naked Safety' (2018). Pick up your copy at Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Accidents-Zero-Practical-Improving-Workplace/dp/1472477030/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1517864948&sr=1-1&refinements=p_27%3AAndrew+Sharman)



DuPont

• United States
• Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• President - International Safety & Sustainability Awards

  • Aug 2008 - Jun 2017

  The annual DuPont International Safety & Sustainability Awards recognise the companies that have taken extraordinary steps to enhance workplace safety and sustainability right around the globe through significant projects in safety - led either by individuals, companies or organisations - and considers programs, projects or contributions in the field of safety and sustainability in the workplace or in society in general. Awards are given in three categories: Safety Sustainability Operational Excellence



Glasgow Caledonian University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Lecturer and External Examiner

  • Jun 2008 - Aug 2015

  Visiting lecturer and External Examiner on Bachelor of Arts (BA) Risk Management course specialising in Health & Hygiene; Health & Safety Management; Ethics, Ethical Behaviour & Risk; and Public Sector Risk Management topics. Visiting lecturer and External Examiner on Bachelor of Arts (BA) Risk Management course specialising in Health & Hygiene; Health & Safety Management; Ethics, Ethical Behaviour & Risk; and Public Sector Risk Management topics.



Andrew Sharman Risk & Safety Consulting

• Geneva Area, Switzerland

• Principal

  • Dec 2013 - Jan 2015



O-I

• United States
• Glass, Ceramics and Concrete Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director - Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) and Risk Management

  • Nov 2010 - Dec 2013

  Owens-Illinois, Inc. is the world's largest glass container manufacturer, with more than 28,000 employees in 21 countries. A Fortune 500 company, O-I holds market leadership positions in each of the four regions in which it operates - Asia Pacific, Europe, Latin America and North America. One in every two glass containers made worldwide is made by O-I, its affiliates, or its licensees. Our key customers include Heineken, Diageo, Nestle and many more - chances are, you'll be holding one of our products today!



RBS

• United Kingdom
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Divisional Manager - Safety, Health & Wellbeing

  • Jan 2008 - Nov 2010

  Operating closely with divisional and Group leadership teams to diagnose organisational health and safety needs and influence and lead direction to drive sustainable delivery and implementation of global strategic health and safety standards. Operating closely with divisional and Group leadership teams to diagnose organisational health and safety needs and influence and lead direction to drive sustainable delivery and implementation of global strategic health and safety standards.



Scottish Power

• Health & Safety Manager

  • 2005 - Dec 2007

  Leading a team of health, safety and hygine consultants to develop and implement strategic improvement programmes in pursuit of health and safety excellence for Europe's largest energy / utility service organisations in a safety critical industrial sector. Leading a team of health, safety and hygine consultants to develop and implement strategic improvement programmes in pursuit of health and safety excellence for Europe's largest energy / utility service organisations in a safety critical industrial sector.



The Risk Factory

• Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Non Executive Board Member

  • 2005 - 2007

  The Risk Factory is an interactive safety centre where everyday risks are presented in a safe environment with the aim of teaching people - from young children to those with learning impairments, to the elderly - how to deal with or avoid risks altogether. The Risk Factory's aim is to provide high quality, interactive community safety education, which will help to develop pro-active citizenship. As a Board Member I held joint responsibility for effective strategic management of the centre. The Risk Factory, and all it stands for, merits worthy appreciation, commitment and attention and I commend it to everyone.



Scottish and Newcastle

• Food and Beverage Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Regional Safety Advisor

  • Jul 2001 - Jun 2006

  Provision of professional safety advice based on legal compliance and industry-leading best practice to around 30 World Class manufacturing, supply chain, laboratory,customer interface, and administrative sites - including some of the largest brewing production sites in the UK and Europe. Dedicated advisor to the board of Scottish & Newcastle Pub Enterprises with a portfolio of over 2,000 managed houses. Provision of professional safety advice based on legal compliance and industry-leading best practice to around 30 World Class manufacturing, supply chain, laboratory,customer interface, and administrative sites - including some of the largest brewing production sites in the UK and Europe. Dedicated advisor to the board of Scottish & Newcastle Pub Enterprises with a portfolio of over 2,000 managed houses.



Border Precision

• Health and Safety Manager

  • 1999 - 2001



Silvermines

• Quality, Health, Safety & Environmental Engineer

  • 1999 - 2000



Viasystems

• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Process Engineer

  • 1995 - 1999