Focussing on safety and wellbeing is no longer a choice, it is at the heart of your competitive advantage – attracting and retaining talent to enable operational excellence and sustainable growth.

Simon Glynn

Director, UK&I Climate Change and Sustainability Services, Ernst & Young LLP

Environment, health, safety and security leader. Enabling responsible decision making to drive sustainable growth. City living, countryside loving.

Simon is the Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) leader for EY UK&I, he supports clients to understand and effectively manage their EHS risks, and improve EHS performance and outcomes.

He has broad experience working across Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, and North America, where he continues to work with large companies across multiple sectors, including infrastructure, oil and gas, financial services, retail and consumer, higher education and private equity.

His EHS experience includes the delivery of maturity assessments and roadmap development; operations model design and implementation; development of strategy, policies, governance and risk management frameworks; developing and embedding safety processes, including emergency and crisis management planning; deals due diligence; and internal audit.

Simon has a degree in Security and Risk Management from the University of Leicester. 

How Simon is building a better working world

“I am building a better working world by transitioning environment, health and safety beyond compliance, to a business aligned, horizon scanning function, enabling sustainable growth whilst supporting staff wellbeing and creating stakeholder value.

I’m passionate about safety, empowering businesses to meet, and exceed their duty of care expectations, doing the right thing for their people and the environment. This includes taking time to learn lessons when things go wrong, inculcating a culture of learning and continuous improvement to achieve better safety outcomes.”

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