Tania Cottingham
- Office: London
- Practice Area: EHS
- Area of Expertise: Health and Safety Compliance
- About Me in 140 Characters: : Junior EHS Consultant focused on turning H&S requirements into clear actions – and helping teams build safer, more consistent ways of working
- Favourite Thing about Being a Health and Safety Practitioner: Helping turn a ‘that’s just how it’s always been done’ into ‘here’s a better way’!
What areas of Health and Safety Compliance are you most interested in? Why?
I’m most interested in incident reporting and investigation because it’s where patterns emerge – every issue helps you understand systems more clearly and improve how things work next time.
What’s your favorite part of your job?
Working with different teams across the business and translating H&S requirements into solutions that fit how people actually work. I love the collaboration and the variety.
What do you consider your biggest professional achievement so far?
Completing my master’s degree early in my career – it was a big personal goal, and it’s helped me back myself when tackling new challenges at work.
Just for Fun…
What was your first job?
My first job was at 16, working as a customer assistant in Hobbycraft. Safe to say I never found much use for the staff discount!
If you had one month off, where would you go or what would you do?
You would find me sailing around the Greek islands.
Is there something unique that people might not know about you?
I’m fluent in Russian – and I’m an identical twin!
