Sjoerd Wouda appointed Central Health & Safety Coordinator NWO-I
The board of NWO-I has appointed Sjoerd Wouda as Central Health & Safety Coordinator for NWO-I with effect from 1 June 2020. In close collaboration with the Health & Safety coordinators and environmental advisers from the NWO Institutes, he will be responsible for maintaining an up-to-date Health & Safety and environmental policy for the entire NWO-I organisation.
The appointment committee consisted of members of FOAM (Functional Consultation Health & Safety and Environment, made up of the Health & Safety coordinators from all nine NWO Institutes) and the head of P&O at NWO-I. The NWO Central Works Council has also approved the appointment.
Wouda knows NWO-I, the Institutes Organisation of NOW, very well. Since 1998, he has worked as a senior software engineer at NWO Institute AMOLF. From 2017 to 2019, he piloted NWO-I through the transition period when he was chair of the NWO Central Works Council (COR NWO). Prior to that, he had acquired considerable experience in the central works council of NWO-I, for example as secretary of the COR. The general profile of Wouda closely matches the job requirements of the Central Health & Safety Coordinator.
The Central Health & Safety Coordinator of NWO-I produces, coordinates and advises about the Health & Safety and environmental year plans, chairs the organisation-wide functional meeting about Health & Safety and the environment, maintains networks, ensures that experts in the area of Health & Safety and the environment and (radiation) safety work together, and advises the NWO-I board about the progress and correct application of the Health & Safety and environmental policy within the organisation. Wouda: ‘With this central role, I can facilitate the collaboration between the institutes and various workgroups in the area of Health & Safety. Together we can continually improve our Health & Safety policy and ensure that everybody can continue to do his or her work safely. After my previous work in the area of works councils, I am pleased that I can now once again work for the benefit of all NWO-I employees.’
Read more about Sjoerd Wouda in an earlier interview that was published in the April 2019 issue of the newsletter Inside NWO-I when he completed his term as chair of COR NWO.