HSMC offer specialist
HSMC offer a range of services 
HSMC offer a range of on-site training courses including DSE, noise, fire, risk assessment and accident managementAbout us
HSMC is a nice little consultancy with bases in South Wales in Cardiff, in Buckinghamshire in High Wycombe and with its main office (right) just off the M5 on the Overbury Estate near Tewkesbury. We operate nationwide from Cornwall to Dundee.
We sit in both the Occupational Health and Health and Safety camps, providing Occ Health services such as audiometry and spirometry, along with health and safety services ssuch as noise assessments, training, risk assessment, etc.
The split between the two is a little artificial, for example audiometry (Occ Health) is as important in the process as engineering controls for noise reduction, (the H&S bit). By sitting in both camps and basically being noise specialists, we bring a good overview to the noise risk overall and when talking to people about their hearing test result, have the wider knowledge to also talk to them about the actual noise risk and how it can be controlled.
HSMC people
General health and safety, noise assessments, spirometry and training
HSMC's regal viceroy is Adam who heads up the company and has worked in health and safety in sectors ranging from the automotive and food industries to agriculture and retail. He collects professional memberships with a passion verging on mania, with the current tally including: Chartered Member of Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Member of the British Society of Audiology and Member of the Institute of Fire Engineers. He also has a degree in something, mainly proving that it is possible for man to live on chips and chocolate for 3 years. Adam works predominantly on audiometry, noise assessments and health and safety training.
Wage-slave number two is Kevin who goes under the job title of Lead Consultant. Kevin spent many years being on the receiving end of health and safety, working as a production manager faced with the responsibility for implementing the schemes dreamt up by his slightly deranged health and safety manager. He has now switched to the dark side and works on audiometry, noise assessments, training, spirometry and general health and safety gubbins. Kevin looks after health and safety for Woburn Safari Park and Woburn Abbey, while in his remaining time tries to whip the three audiometry bods into some form of order.
Audiometry and Spirometry
You know those films where right at the end everyone thinks the bad guy is dead but suddenly he lunges back into life to run amok again? Well, sadly David Mark II was a victim of the recession in 2009 but like a Welsh Freddy Kruger he's lept back into life again. David, who rejoices in the title of Senior Audiometry Technician, is based in Cardiff, and works on our audiometry and spirometry service, although 'works' may be over-stating his case slightly. And clicking on this picture to see David in his full glory is unmissable...
Audiometry
Audiometry Technician Dale is ex-Navy and works solely on our Audiometry provision. Dale was stationed on the Ark Royal but his dream of 'seeing the world' was hampered a bit by the Ark Royal steaming around the North Sea then going to the exotic port of Newcastle, which wasn't exactly the part of the world he had in mind.
Office personnages, or 'those who make it all work'
Marty is the HSMC Company Secretary therefore if Adam fiddles the books she goes to prison. She keeps us on the straight and narrow, making sure we turn up where we're supposed to be, making sure quotes and invoices are done and keeps an (unnecessarily tight) hand on the hotel costs, usually arranging hotels with views of motorways, gas works or brick walls, which is lovely.
Julia fell into the pit of despair that is HSMC employment at the beginning of March and works in HSMC Towers alongside Marty as the Office Manager, looking to bring new clients into the warm welcoming bosom of HSMC, scheduling the work and sending out the finished reports. If you ring and a nice polite voice answers it will be Julia or Marty, if its a gumpy sounding mumbler then its Adam.
David Mark I is our financial guru and he takes care of all money things and the financial dark arts. He has a beard. Typical of the modern accountant, he prefers a nice big dusty ledger book to computers any day and probably writes with a quill while muttering darkly about those new fangled biro things.
Maia is a dog, but don't tell her that. She has the job title of Senior Vice President - Postie Guarding Operations and has taken it upon herself to defend the office from what she views as the evil postman who comes to torment her every morning, then she spends the rest of the day generally overseeing operations with a vaguely propriatorial air. If you hear snoring when you telephone it is most likely her. Or Adam. email: maia@hsmc.co.uk
HSMC do not contract out work ordered by our clients to other companies meaning when you deal with us you really are dealing with us and not another third party.
HSMC are happy to travel to all parts of the UK. We have clients all over the UK including Southampton, Brighton, Skegness, Pembrokeshire, Leicester, the West Midlands, Edinburgh, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Cardiff, and Belfast, along with some small southern place called London. The more pleasant and agreeable the location the better the position clients are in for negotiating over price. As a guide: Skegness for two weeks in February was not agreeable.
What is a consultant exactly? This may help explain...
And the legal stuff: HSMC is the trading name of 'Health and Safety Management Consultants Limited'. As we're sure you'll agree, that's a bit of a mouthful hence the 'HSMC'.
HSMC is a registered company, number 05244866.