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Loughborough graduate scoops top Health and Safety award
A former student of the School of Business and Economics has been named Europe’s top health and safety professional at a major industry event.
Christine Nicholls earned the honour after being named overall European winner of the inaugural Kimberly-Clark Professional “Make A Difference” Health & Safety Awards. She was crowned champion at a gala dinner held at the A+A Health & Safety at Work exhibition in Dusseldorf, Germany, on 19 October 2011.
Christine, who studied on the School’s Occupational Health and Safety MSc programme, won for her work measuring and containing levels of potentially harmful Respirable Crystalline Silica (RCS) in the atmosphere at CPI Euromix. The judges praised Christine for raising awareness at the dry mortar manufacturing plant of the health risks posed by RCS. As a result of her actions, the company invested in new safety equipment designed to minimise levels of RCS.
Christine was voted top out of the six European finalists that attended the gala dinner. Neal Stone, Director of Research & Policy at the British Safety Council, and a member of the judging panel, said: “Christine’s entry stood out in this year’s competition and she thoroughly deserves her title of overall European winner. Her efforts in going the extra mile to protect her co-workers at CPI Euromix are a great example to all of us and a real tribute to her profession.”
“I think the skills gained from the MSc at Loughborough have certainly helped me,” Christine said. “The projects undertaken for the MSc programme explore research methods, how to critically evaluate peer reviewed literature and how to gather, analysis and present data. These skills took my abilities to manage projects up a level and enabled me to create a meaningful research project.”
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