Your Partner in Safety Excellence
Leapingfish Safety provides tailored consultancy services backed by 21 years of industry experience. Leapingfish specialises in construction, manufacturing, and property safety, ensuring compliance and peace of mind. Let Leapingfish help you navigate the complexities of Health and Safety.
Experience You Can Trust
Leapingfish Safety benefits from Kevin Slaney's 21 years experience in Health and Safety including 8 years as a Senior Consultant for a major global consultancy and 9 years HSQE safety management in construction for a Principal Contractor. He also had a year in general HSE small business and sole trader construction H&S work and 3 years in chemical (COSHH) and mechanical process safety. Kevin has recently been doing some work involving high-rise façade remediation.
Kevin has extensive experience as a Principal Designer on numerous large and very large projects, ranging from £1m to £500m. He has taken part in the construction and upgrade of over 50 schools, municipal buildings, financial sector premises, energy projects, housing, laboratories, hotel, leisure centres, commercial offices, hospitals, supermarkets, major college and university projects. He has specialist knowledge of schools design-safety work including SEN premises and hydrotherapy pools.
Kevin works closely with the client, architectural, structural, MEP and contractor team to ensure effective Design Risk Assessment and collaborative risk workshops. His numerous Principal Designer roles have included a RIBA award-winning Mosque, a RIBA awarded housing project and a RIBA awarded community centre. He has done everything from a risk assessment for a self-employed plasterer to acting as Principal Designer for several large new builds on a £500 million project with 2500 workers on site daily.
Kevin is 12 years Chartered Member of IOSH with a Diploma in Occupational Safety & Health, both NEBOSH Construction and General Qualifications, and the CSCS Construction Health & Safety Manager's black card.
With highly competitive rates, CRB & Security clearances, and professional insurances, quotations are available on application. I can work with you at an invoiced freelance rate, or for you - short-term part-time temporary employments in your organisation for situations such as maternity cover or where the arrangement is mutually beneficial such as for high insurance requirements or client preference.
For small companies, sole trader self-employed subcontractors I offer exceptionally affordable no-strings no-contract one-off services like risk assessments and method statements from as little as £90. Email me at kevin.slaney@leapingfishsafety.co.uk with your phone number and I'll get back to you!
21
Years of Experience
100+
Projects Managed
£1m - £500m projects Principal Designer
H&S Advisor and Auditing roles
Review, Advise, Collaborate
Construction Safety Management
Comprehensive safety management services for construction projects, ensuring project "Safety on the ground" and Regulatory compliance at every stage.
Risk Assessment and Compliance
Expert risk assessment, safety policies and compliance strategies tailored to your projects and business.
Site Inspections and Audits
Thorough site safety inspections and audits to identify potential hazards and ensure a safe working environment.
One-man band?
Let us do the donkey work!
We can do those documents they need to let you onto the site. Quick simple affordable clear one-off pricing. Just phone.
Ways Leapingfish can help
Please ask if you don't see your requirement, or for us to help you identify your needs.
- Health & Safety Policies
- Risk Assessments and Method Statements (RAMS)
- Principal Designer or PD Advisor service
- Client project compliance advisor visits (CMT)
- F10 submissions
- Site and premises audits and inspections
- Factories, Engineering Workshops, Motor Industry
- Agriculture, Farms and Equine
- Wholesale, Retail, Small Shops and Charity sector
- Dilapidations / tenant compliance surveys
- Tender applications
- CHAS, Achilles and other SSIP applications
- NICEIC and Gas Safe Register team management systems
- COSHH Assessments
- Training gap analysis and tracking
- Competence checking
- Pre-Construction Information packs
- Design Risk Assessments and Workshops
- Design buildability and operation checking
- Access and Maintenance Strategies
- O&M manual checking
- Construction Phase Plans and CPP adequacy checking
- Health & Safety Files and HS File checking
- Radio EMF risk assessments
- Inspection of work at height sites such as with mast climbers, Haki stairs etc. (Please note not scaffold inspections - Leapingfish's service is a wider appreciation of the site).
Leapingfish has a network to other specialists you might like to consider -
Structural Engineers, Geotechnics and Soil, M&E/HVAC, Data, Solar Power and EV Charging, Architects, Fire Safety Engineers, Wellbeing practices, PAT/EET Testers, Abseil Services, Asbestos Surveyors and Removals, QS, PM, Planning Consultants, HR Advisors, Environmental Advisors, Archeological Advisors - the list is too long to put all so please do ask and we can suggest businesses that might be able to help you (please remember however, to do your own competence checking and due diligence for the specific services you require).
About Kevin
Kevin has taken a keen interest in Architecture since 1979 and has travelled extensively throughout Europe, in that time visiting exceptional buildings in over 30 countries. He is a member of the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) and was privileged to work as a Principal Designer on several Stirling Prize nationally shortlisted projects and regional prizewinners.
Kevin also has in interest in radio wave propagation in space applications and belongs to several radio organisations including the RSGB. He occasionally participates in NASA Engineering Safety Center events.
A former horseman, Tango dancer, Tai Chi and Yoga practitioner, Kevin now enjoys professional and personal interest learning including safety and risk, AI, and Biblical studies with The Open University, Harvard University, Yale University, Cambridge University Library, BBC Maestro with former US Secret Service agent Evy Poumpouras and business dragon Peter Jones, Microsoft, IOSH, Helsinki University, Leiden University, and Christian business influencers counting Stefanie Gass, Jennifer Allwood and Gabe Cox.
Other
Kevin was a qualified Professional photographer for 14 years working on projects such as the Royal Wedding of Charles and Diana for Sir Patrick Lichfield, the Moon landing anniversary for NASA and the Voyager images of Jupiter and Saturn for JPL.
He is married to Madeleine and they sponsor four children in Africa. He has taken a keen interest in fashion all his life, writing weekly articles and publishing photography under various pen names in several fashion forums.
Kevin is a Licenced Radio Amateur (Callsign M7KVS) and can undertake Radio EMF Risk Assessments in compliance with ICNIRP and Ofcom requirements.
Kevin originally trained as an artist and has six years experience successfully creating commercial graphic design - logos, stationery, murals, fonts and signs. He also runs Leapingfish's sister business, Lemon Fresh Graphics Studio.
This website, all photographs, the Leapingfish Safety and Lemon Fresh Graphics Studio logos are copyright Kevin Slaney©2025. All images on this website are Kevin's own work taken in a private capacity. If you are interested in purchasing graphic design services please contact our sister business Lemon Fresh Graphic Studio, initially through Leapingfish Safety.
Gallery
This area has some photos relevant to Kevin's experience and interests.
Get in touch
E-mail address below or please use the
message form on the left:
kevin.slaney@leapingfishsafety.co.uk
Lemon Fresh Graphics Studio
If you are interested in our graphics services please contact us through Leapingfish by email and we will be happy to help you develop and promote your business identity.
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