Empower strengthens health and safety capability with key manager appointment

Empower strengthens health and safety capability with key manager appointment

Empower Technical Services is pleased to announce the appointment of Lewis Blackmore as Health & Safety Manager, reinforcing its commitment to health and safety excellence across the group.

Lewis brings extensive experience in building health and safety frameworks from the ground up, with a background spanning facilities management, engineering and complex, multi-site operational environments. He has developed and implemented policies and standard operating procedures, combining a structured approach to risk and compliance with hands-on site management.

He is a member of IOSH (Tech IOSH) and holds professional memberships with the International Institute of Risk & Safety Management (MIIRSM), Chartered Management Institute (FCMI), and the Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management (CIWFM).

Nick Manning, CEO of Empower, commented: "We are thrilled to welcome Lewis to Empower as we continue to build out our centralised health and safety function. Providing our partner businesses with robust, practical compliance support helps us to ensure they are safe, audit-ready and well positioned for growth. With further partnerships on the horizon, Lewis’ experience will be instrumental in laying the strong health and safety foundations critical to the group’s long-term success.”

This appointment marks an important step as Empower continues to strengthen its central capabilities and support its growing portfolio of partner businesses.