Welcome to ProGuard Training

Sean is the Managing Director of ProGuard Training and founder of ProGuard Consulting. As a Chartered Member of IOSH (CMIOSH), Sean brings extensive experience across construction, industrial, and high-risk operational environments. 

He established ProGuard Training to deliver structured, competence-led training in plant and industrial settings, which focuses on enhancing real-world safety performance. Sean ensures all health and safety training programmes are aligned with operational risk, professional standards, and the practical demands of live working environments throughout the North West, North Wales, and beyond.

Jess oversees the day-to-day operations of ProGuard Consulting and ProGuard Training, ensuring that competence-led training and health and safety training services are delivered efficiently and professionally to clients. With a teaching degree and over 18 years of experience in special needs education, Jess brings a wealth of expertise in structured learning and communication. As a qualified Train the Trainer instructor in safe handling techniques for children, she now applies these skills to enhance the organisation, coordination, and delivery of ProGuard’s industrial training and consultancy services across the North West, North Wales, and beyond.

Jason brings a strong background in rail special projects, plant operations, and facilities management across the UK, emphasizing health and safety training. He is NEBOSH qualified, holds certification in LOLER inspection, and has over 10 years’ experience as an ITSSAR qualified instructor, delivering industrial training and competence-led training across various operational environments.

With a genuine passion for health and safety, Jason is committed to developing operator competence and supporting safe working practices. He continues to apply his knowledge to new projects while furthering his professional development within the industry.

Bio to come, including insights on our competence-led training, health and safety training, and industrial training programs.

Bio to come, including insights on our competence-led training, health and safety training, and industrial training programs.

We are not just a standalone “course provider.” We are part of a broader safety and risk consultancy, focusing on delivering competence-led training that encompasses health and safety training as well as industrial training. This approach means: Structured thinking, Governance awareness, Operational risk understanding, and Safety culture integration. Our training is delivered within a comprehensive risk management context.

We assess:

Safe equipment control

Load stability

Reversing discipline

Communication during lifting

Awareness of exclusion zones

Our focus is on operators' competence-led training, ensuring they are genuinely safe rather than merely having attended health and safety training. This is crucial in our approach to industrial training.

Where appropriate, competence-led training is delivered on-site using your equipment and aligns with: 

- Traffic management plans 

- Pedestrian segregation 

- Lift planning 

- Ground condition risk 

- Site-specific hazards 

This health and safety training ensures direct operational relevance and supports effective industrial training.

We provide structured records that support competence-led training initiatives, alongside essential documentation for health and safety training, industrial training, contractor audits, and internal assurance processes. Professional documentation matters.

We operate primarily across the North West and North Wales, providing responsive and flexible delivery of competence-led training, including health and safety training and industrial training. For multi-site organisations, we can support structured programmes across the UK.

Our competence-led training is designed to minimize the types of incidents that can lead to serious consequences in the workplace, focusing on critical areas of health and safety training. This includes reducing risks associated with: plant collisions, reversing incidents, dropped loads, struck-by events, falls from height, and lifting failures. Our industrial training ensures that all employees are equipped with the knowledge and skills necessary to prevent these occurrences.

We are committed to raising the standard of industrial training—not by adding complexity, but by strengthening competence through competence-led training. If you require professional plant and industrial training that is clearly structured and aligned with operational risk control, ProGuard Training provides the expertise you need to enhance your health and safety training.