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WORKPLACE SCIENTIFICS
Occupational hygiene professionals Dave Lombardi and Thomas Wood founded Workplace Scientifics because of their scientific backgrounds and to encourage industrial change – and Launchpad helped turn their business plan into action Tell us about your company? Occupational Hygiene is a scientific discipline that is an essential element of an organisation’s health and safety management system and their compliance. As qualified occupational hygienists we created Workplace Scientifics to provide anticipation, recognition, evaluation and control of occupational exposure to chemical, physical and biological hazards for a wide range of businesses. At Workplace Scientifics we specialise in occupational hygiene consultations, exposure related risk assessments and compliance testing for a variety of industries such as petrochemical, food processing, construction, engineering, fabrication, health and beauty, plastics, and metal processing. When did you first decide to start up on your own and what inspired you? We started the Workplace Scientifics journey in 2019 because we both shared a common interest in encouraging industrial change and wanted to work with our very own customers to help influence shifts in the approach towards the delivery and application of occupational hygiene. Due to our backgrounds, we were concerned by the lack of
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awareness around occupational disease and so we had a concept to create a greater level of awareness around the control of workplace exposure hazards. Our overall vision was to see a significant reduction in workrelated illnesses over the coming years and to have contributed to this drop.
programme very useful, allowing us to turn our business plan into actions. They also directed us towards funding opportunities and assisted throughout the application process.
What are your hopes and aims for the business? Our ultimate aim is to guide managers and leaders of How has Launchpad helped organisations through positive you? change to help create safer Launchpad came highly working environments. In Grant recommended as the Cardone’s book ‘The 10X Rule’ he foundations for any business can talks about being omnipresent – be drawn up with their continued the concept of being everywhere, support. Since founding our in all places, at all times. We business, we have received hope to use our omnipresence to endless support from Darren showcase useful and insightful McDool and the Launchpad information to our networks as community. We also found we continue to form long-lasting their training sessions and business relationships allowing personalised business mentoring us to thrive, not just survive.
Launchpad advisor Darren McDool said: Tom and Dave have been a pleasure to work with and have sensibly taken advantage of free Launchpad support. They’ve fine-tuned their offer by testing the business model in oneto-one meetings and at new business workshops, before getting input from our marketing associate on shaping their online presence. With impressive product knowledge and industry experience added to the creativity, determination and professionalism they’ve always demonstrated, I’m sure good things lay ahead for Workplace Scientifics. Starting and growing a business is not easy and that’s why the Launchpad programme was created. Part funded by the European Regional Development Fund and our partners means there is no cost to the entrepreneur, so we can get straight to work on turning those dreams into reality. Stop dreaming and do it. Contact us for information now on 03330 00 00 39 or email growthhub@ sheffieldcityregion.org.uk.
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