Business Hours: Monday – Saturday, 9:00am – 5:00pm

About us

COMPANY BACKGROUND

Black Dragon Safety Ltd was formed in 2018 by Anthony Sturgess to provide a professional, competent and cost effective health and safety consultancy service with particular relevance to Fire Safety and Risk Management as well as the Construction Health and Safety.

Anthony Sturgess CBIFM CMIOSH AIFirEDirector (Fire & Construction Safety Consultant)

Anthony is a Chartered Health & Safety practitioner and Fire Engineer with over 15 years’ experience of working within the fire and construction industry. He has worked on many construction projects with both central and local government organisations and worked with local enforcing bodies. He also has a wide range of experience in working with many other local authority service provisions, such as schools, care homes, leisure centres, libraries, and community centres, as well as private industry enterprises such as sporting venues, golf clubs, rugby union clubs, and football clubs.

Anthony has worked closely with those individuals and companies applying to health and safety registered bodies, for example SSIP, CHAS, Construction Line, and Safe Contractor Scheme, to ensure a successful application with the intention of aiding companies bid for public sector tenders.

Due to his wide and varied skills, experience, knowledge and training, he will act as your Competent Safety Advisor in line with Regulation 7 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.

Anthony has particular experience of working within construction industry covering the Construction, Design Management Regulations 2015 and its associated duty holders, offering advice and guidance (construction site health & safety inspections) including fire safety on construction sites including timber frame fire risk assessments.

Whilst also encompassing fire safety as an additional area of expertise, he will act as your fire safety consultant on many differing aspects covering fire safety and dealing with enforcing bodies on your behalf, delivering fire strategies, fire risk assessments, and fire safety training.

Ian Bevan GIFirE I.O.S.H.Fire Safety Consultant

Ian is a Fire Engineer with over 37 years’ experience both Business Fire Safety and Operational Firefighting, where he rose to the rank of Station Officer/Commander. Progressing onto the role of Business Fire Safety Specialist Inspecting Officer, Ian has worked alongside Health and Safety officers, Managers and Heads of Department, for a wide variety of premises from large department stores to secondary schools, factories and care homes.

Primarily he trained for his role as an Inspector, succesfully completing his Fire Safety training at the Fire Service College at Moreton-in-Marsh. He also worked closely on a successful prosecution case where precedent law was implied with one of the countries leading Fire safety barristers. Ian’s specialist knowledge and experience of Fire fighting and Business Fire Safety, will allow him to act as Fire Safety Consultant on differing areas of specialist Fire Safety, inclusive of fire strategies, fire audits, risk assessment and training.

David Laytham AIFirEFire & Construction Safety Consultant

David is an experienced Health & Safety Practitioner working within both the public sector and private industry for many years, as well as previously working for local authority as an accredited Building Inspector.

He has amassed many strings to his bow working within the health, safety and environmental sectors for over 30 years. David is able to offer consultancy services to a range of sectors, examples being the property sector, construction and fire, as well as environmental guidance.

David brings a wealth of experience to the fire safety sector specialising in risk assessments for hostels, care homes, bed and breakfast accommodation, flats, houses of multiple occupancy. By having expertise in the varied guidance impacting upon this sector, we are able to drive forward an effective fire safety consultancy service, offering the client complete to peace of mind that they are fully complying with the law.

Working closely with Building Control Officers and Approved Inspectors, Architects, Designers and Main Contractors, he helps our clients with compliance within construction health, safety and environmental practises, as well as collaborating with enforcing bodies such as Fire Officers, Health and Safety Executive Officers, and Environmental Health Officers.

David also enjoys a specialist role working with Health, Safety and Environmental frameworks, such as OHSAS 18001 Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems, ISO 14001 Environmental Systems, and ISO 45001 – the new International Standard for Occupational Health and Safety.