Saturday 24TH October · 10:00 to 11:30AM GMT

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About the Host

Paul Foster

Managing Director · Diligent Safety Training & Consultancy Ltd · UK's Top Occupational Safety & Health Consultancy 2025

Paul Foster has spent fifty years inside the environments where getting safety wrong is not recoverable. Oil and gas. Petrochemical. Construction. Rail. Power generation. From a Mechanical Technician in the Sahara Desert in 1980 to the founding of the UK's top occupational safety and health consultancy — the journey has been neither straight nor safe.
"We do not know why you care."
Those four words, said by a foreman on an ordinary Tuesday morning in Saudi Arabia, reordered everything. After thirty-five years doing everything the industry asked — the qualifications, the site visits, the risk assessments, the investigations — Paul realised that not one of them had taught him how to show the people he was responsible for that there was a human being behind the professional role.
That gap became the work.
The Human Safety Gap™ is the structural absence — from every H&S qualification ever written, in every country — of any methodology for the relationship, influence and trust dimensions of safety leadership. Never Lose Anyone™ is the answer Paul built to close it. Seven modules. Specific tools in every one. Deployed across Rolls-Royce, Shell Global Solutions, Saudi Aramco, DOW Chemicals and the Ministry of Defence.
Paul is dyslexic. Every qualification he holds was earned differently from the way most people earn it — not by reading faster, but by understanding more deeply. Dyslexia trained him to find what is missing rather than what is present. To hear what is not being said. That is not a footnote to this methodology. It is the foundation of it.
In this session he shares the framework, the story behind it, and the specific tools that begin crossing The Trust Threshold™ from your very next site visit.

NEBOSH International Diploma · Credit QTLS Qualified Teacher Chartered MBCS Babcock International Award LoopLynks Global Recognition 2026

50+ years · High-Hazard Industry