About Us

Creating A Safer Working Environment

What We Offer

SA Safety offers specialist training and services solutions. Our team work across the UK to deliver solutions to clients in the high-risk utilities, industrial and anufacturing sectors. Since 2018, we have provided over 120,000 rescue team person-hours to major facilities within the UK power supply infrastructure, and delivered tailored training to over 5,000 students. We offer training on site or at our own fully equipped specialist training centre.

Committed To Your Success

We help you identify the specialist training and services solutions that fit your requirements. We offer audit reporting, assessment and gap analysis to make recommendations to help you develop a safe system of work. Through our tailored training, competency and skills development, combined with our specialist support services, SA Safety can help you create a safer working environment.

Our Ethos

Developing sustainable long-term relationships is key to our business ethos. Our clients return to us as part of their continuing programmes of improvement, trusting us to deliver structured programmes of specialist training and services solutions which are fit for purpose, support their learners, increase competency, and provide resilience across businesses by creating a safer workplace.

Social Value

SA Safety is a values-based organisation, whose purpose is to deliver and support growth with passion; creating a future where everyone has the chance of a better quality of life, through new skills, investment and opportunity. Read more about our commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility here. Our team promotes, influences, trains, explores and advises to deliver maximum benefit for both clients and the communities in which we work.

Our Mission

“Creating a safer working environment for our customers by the continuous investment in our team. We develop safety-led solutions delivered with quality and passion, and recognise that our greatest asset is our people”

Meet The Team

Mark Shaddick

Managing Director

Andy Appleton

Commercial Director

Sally Carlson

Audit, Training and Compliance Team Lead

Dave Tucker

Operations Director

Our Core Values

Passion

Passion

Our people are determined, committed and fun to do business with.

Professionalism

Professionalism

By investing in our people, we operate based on our training and industrial services teams being highly qualified, professional, and adding value to the programmes we deliver to our customers.

Leadership

Leadership

Through our people we strengthen our role as a provider of specialist training and industrial services solutions with the courage to shape a safer workplace for industry.

Quality

Quality

With our passionate and professional people, we can respond to our clients’ needs by adding qualitative value to our service; what we do, we do well.

Innovation and Learning

Innovation and Learning

Embracing innovative solutions for the enhancement of our services in the pursuit of growth and learning advancement within industry.

Collaboration

Collaboration

Harnessing opportunities to meet, communicate, collaborate, and partner within the training and industrial services business community for mutual growth.

Mark Shaddick

Managing Director

Mark set up SA Safety after 24 years with the Fire and Rescue Service, where he went from operational firefighter to manager of the Access and Rescue School for the Fire Service Training Academy.

Mark developed and delivered the New Dimension Urban Search and Rescue Project and trained over 1000 fire service personnel. He holds a Diploma in Technical Response and Incident Management for Specialist Recovery. Mark specialises in training for confined space, Rescue 3 water, working at height and rope rescue. His long list of other qualifications includes NEBOSH, instructor level qualifications for fire behaviour, positive pressure ventilation, and Urban Search and Rescue. He holds a TAQA, City and Guilds Assessor, internal and external QA, and ISO 45001 Lead Auditor and is a Fellow of the Institute of Search and Technical Rescue.

Andy Appleton

Commercial Director

Andy joined SA Safety as Commercial Director in 2019 having spent 30 years in the banking and financial services industry and a year with the commercial division of a local authority business.

Andy’s focus is on developing our product and services proposition to match our customers and market expectations, and on driving our growth through product innovation in the high-risk utilities and industrial sectors. He has a passion for developing long-term sustainable relationships through tailored solutions that are cost effective and create a safer working environment for customers, their staff and contractors. Andy is also responsible for governance, including maintaining the high quality of service delivery our customers expect, which is underpinned by our UKAS ISO 9001 and 45001 certification.

Sally Carlson

Audit, Training and Compliance Team Lead

Sally is a highly experienced business and project manager with a career spanning both the private and public sectors, bringing to SA Safety a wealth of experience,  particularly in training and self-development, public safety, business growth and project management. Sally’s work ensures the smooth running of the business wherever and whenever we are needed.

Dave Tucker

Operations Director

Dave joined SA Safety in 2019 after nearly 12 years in the Royal Marines followed by 17 years in the Fire Service. As a former firefighter, Dave brings to SA Safety a high level of practical experience.

Dave’s experience includes working at a specialist rescue fire station, and providing maritime firefighting training for both internal staff and to the commercial sector. Now Dave is responsible for delivering confined space training and emergency scheme training for our most high-profile clients and has been key in ensuring that staff in high-risk workplace settings are suitably trained to deal with emergency situations.