Nearly a decade of health & safety experience across some of the UK's largest civil engineering projects — now bringing that expertise, and a decorated military background, to businesses across Delaware and beyond.
Director & Principal Consultant
Claire has spent nearly ten years working in health & safety, primarily across groundworks, roadworks and civil engineering — high-pressure, high-consequence environments where compliance isn't optional and neither is looking after the people on site.
Before relocating to the US with her family, Claire was based in the UK, where she built her career on some of the country's most demanding infrastructure projects.
Oversaw health, safety, environmental, quality and training across 60 live sites simultaneously — groundworks, civil engineering, and S278 highway works — ensuring every site met legislative requirements and achieved consistently high safety standards from start to finish.
Health, Safety & Wellbeing Advisor on the largest motorway improvement scheme in Europe — a £1.5 billion, 33km project including new road construction, widening of existing carriageways, and a new bridge over the Great River Ouse.
On site during the A14 works — including the new bridge over the Great River Ouse.
Claire's career began in the British Army, where she served with distinction and received a commendation for her conduct. That military foundation — discipline, calm under pressure, and an instinct for looking after the people around her — still shapes how she works today.
Day to day, the job was rarely glamorous — producing RAMS and statutory documentation, running site audits and inductions, and being the person a site manager called before a decision went wrong rather than after. Claire built that habit deliberately. Rather than working from behind a desk, she made herself a familiar, approachable face on site, so that if something felt off, people came and told her about it instead of just carrying on and hoping for the best. That's the difference a present, human advisor makes: the near-misses and gut feelings that come out in a five-minute conversation are exactly the ones a written procedure — or a document produced by AI with no one ever setting foot on site — will never catch.
That instinct for looking after people didn't start in construction. Claire left home for the British Army at sixteen, a decision that took her around the world, including postings to some genuinely difficult places, and earned her a commendation for her conduct along the way. The discipline and steadiness that came out of it are still the foundation of how she works today.
“My job is making sure everyone goes home safe to their families at the end of the day.”
— Claire Stacey
Claire's also noticed that being one of relatively few women on site has its own quiet advantage — operatives have often been more willing to open up to her, about a safety concern or something going on outside work, than they might with someone they saw as one of the lads. It's not something she leads with, but it's been a consistent part of how she's earned trust on every site she's worked.
Claire's approach to safety leadership was featured in ECL Civil Engineering's Women in Construction series. Read the interview →
As a qualified Mental Health First Aider, Claire brings a genuinely people-first approach to site safety. Construction is a demanding industry — she's there to support employees who may be struggling, without fear of judgement, and to point them toward the right help when they need it.
At the A14 Impact Day — a safety engagement event marking months of planning on the project.
As a NEBOSH-qualified safety professional — equivalent to BCSP's CHST standard — Claire brings OSHA 1926-focused construction safety expertise to every project, from job hazard analyses (JHAs) to site-specific safety plans (SSSPs), backed by hands-on field experience on major UK infrastructure projects.
Her NEBOSH and IOSH qualifications, alongside direct experience delivering H&S on major UK contracts, also mean she's well placed to support UK-based construction and civil engineering businesses that want documentation handled by someone who understands UK sites and UK standards — just working the overnight shift so it's ready by morning.
From £1.5bn motorway schemes to day-to-day groundworks, Claire's experience means practical, workable safety advice — not paperwork for paperwork's sake.
Work with Claire