Aged 58, Danny lives in Cumbernauld with this wife Ruth. He has 3 sons and 2 grandsons. He worked as an electrician and safety representative in shipbuilding, construction, offshore oil and public services. Thereafter he served for around 25 years as a trade union officer, eventually becoming Scottish Regional Secretary and then Assistant General Secretary for the manufacturing union Amicus. He has extensive experience of working on HSE advisory committees and other government advisory bodies. Danny is an elected Councillor of North Lanarkshire Council. He is the independent chairman of the Scottish Joint Industry Board which regulates the electrical contracting industry in Scotland. He was appointed to the Health and Safety Commission on 1 October 2004. Since April 2008 Danny has become an HSE board member following the merger of the Commission and the Executive.
Steve BellSteve was appointed to the new post of Strategic Director of the Scottish Centre for Healthy Working Lives in April 2005. Created as a discrete business unit of NHS Health Scotland, the Centre brought together four ‘legacy’ organisations and was established to provide a focus for the implementation of the Scottish Executive’s Healthy Working Lives Strategy. Steve’s background includes 6 years as Health Promotion Manager with NHS Highland which build on his previous experience in a number of health improvement posts since entering the field in 1993. In a former life, he spent 4 years as an elected member of Cleveland County Council where he sat on the Consumer Protection (as vice chair), Police and Social Services Committees. A graduate of the university of Teesside, he holds an M.Phil in Social Policy and an MBA from the University of Glasgow and is a Member of the Chartered Management Institute. An active mountaineer, which he regards as good for his mental health and wellbeing if not his knees. Steve is a “compleat” Munroist and as time allows is now gradually ticking off the Corbetts. He lives in Lanarkshire with his wife Meg, their children Rob and Cate and border collie Mack.
Corporate Safety Manager, Legal and Protective Services, South Ayrshire Council
Roddy leads on the Scottish Government’s Health Working Lives policy. The policy spans a wide range, from ensure that people in work are kept safe and healthy and that their wellbeing is promoted, through provision of services for those in work at risk of losing their job through ill health, to provision of support for those out of work through ill health who wish to return. The Scottish Government’s Healthy Working Lives policy sponsors the Scottish Centre for Healthy Working Lives. Roddy represents the Scottish Government on the Executive of the Great Britain-wide Health Work and Wellbeing Strategy, a collaboration with the Department of Health, Department for Work and Pensions, Health and Safety Executive and the Wales Assembly Government. Prior to joining the Scottish Government in 2003, Roddy worked in the gas industry in marketing and commercial roles.
David EvansDavid is a qualified Environmental Health Officer with practical and managerial experience of the full range of environmental health functions gained in over 30 years working in local government. After training and working as an EHO in East Yorkshire Borough Council, moved to East Lothian in 1982 where he has worked in a number of posts and is currently Senior Environmental and Consumer Services Manager for East Lothian Council with responsibilities including environmental health, trading standards and waste strategy. He is a qualified waste management practitioner and has 20 years practical and managerial experience of delivering local authority waste management services.
He is an active member of the Society of Chief Officers of Environmental Health in Scotland and is currently Chairman. In this capacity he represents the Society and Scottish Local Authority Environmental Health interests to a wide range of organisations and agencies including: advisor to COSLA and participation in liaison meeting with Scottish Executive departments, Health and Safety Executive, Food Standards Agency, Health Protection Scotland in developing national policies and guidance. He currently represents Scottish Local Authorities on the LACORS Health and Safety Policy Forum and on HELA (GB). He acts as an examiner during final professional interviews for trainee Environmental Health Officers for the Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland.
Harry FrewHarry Frew has served UCATT as a full time officer since 1992, representing UCATT members, public and private sector. He is Secretary of the Scottish Local Authority Negotiating Committee for Craft Workers. He represents the Construction Industry in the Scottish Parliament ‘s Cross Party Group for Construction, Scottish Construction Forum, SCIG, CITB Sector Skills Scottish Advisory Committee and he is also the Operatives’ Secretary of the Scottish Building Apprenticeship and Training Council that maintains standards within the construction industry for apprentices. On health and safety Harry also represents the STUC and UCATT on Sitesafe Scotland, as well as partnership on health and safety in Scotland. Harry has held many positions within UCATT; Shop Stewart, Branch Secretary, Regional Council Member and Full Time Officer. He also represents UCATT at the Scottish Labour Party Conference as well as the STUC and meets with both Scottish Executive and UK Government Ministers.
Professor Russel Griggs was born and educated in Edinburgh and has a degree from Heriot Watt University. He started his business life in marketing in the pharmaceutical industry and then moved to the consumer flooring industry before becoming CEO of an industrial textile company in England in the 1980’s. In 1990 he was headhunted to join Scottish Enterprise in a business development role and became an Executive Director of Scottish Enterprise where he ran the investment and business development arms, as well as spending some years in the USA looking at outward investment for Scottish companies. At Scottish Enterprise he also ran Scotland the Brand, The Scottish Science Trust, and was in charge of designing and building the Scottish Pavilion at Disney’s Epcot Theme Park in Florida, which was great fun. He has also been a Non Executive Director of George Waterston’s and Sons Ltd. the Edinburgh printer and Barclays Bank in Scotland. Today he sits on the Board of Imes Group Ltd a rapidly expanding engineering services business in Aberdeen. He also chairs the Institute of Occupational Medicine and Chair of A4e Scotland Ltd which is the Scottish subsidiary of a large international business providing services to governments across the world helping the unemployed, disadvantaged and small businesses. Through Imes Group Ltd he sits on the CBI’s national SME Council, where he will become Chair in January 2008 and serves on the Scottish Government’s Small Business Consultative Group. He also chairs the Regulatory Review Group for the Scottish Regulatory Review Group looking at the impact of regulation on business and does work on business development and strategy for a number of organisations including businesses, RDAs and Local Authorities. He also sits on the Board of Dumfries & Galloway College, Scottish Enterprise Dumfries & Galloway. He is honorary Professor of the University of Glasgow and chairs the Advisory Board of the Crichton University Campus in Dumfries, the first multi university campus in the UK. The University of Glasgow awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2002 for services to industry and the University. He is married with two grown up married children and lives in Sanquhar in Dumfriesshire with his wife Elizabeth where they enjoy their large garden and his grandson.
Jamie HumeJamie Hume re-joined the Scottish Government in September 2007 via open competition, as Deputy Director for Enterprise and Industry, with responsibility for the units covering manufacturing and industrial policy, business interests and liaison, trade unions and improving regulation. A career centring to date around leadership positions in youth development and organisational change has taken him around the world, as Country Director for the charity Raleigh International, and most recently, running a comprehensive change programme as Vice Principal at an international school in northern India. His previous post with the civil service in Scotland was as Project Director of the 2005 World Youth Congress, which he drove to become the largest event of its kind for young people to be held anywhere in the world. His commercial experience includes 6 years as a highly successful buyer, and later a freelance consultant, to TUI – Europe’s market leading tour operating company. With his Italian wife, he also runs a specialist clothing company, trading between India and Europe. His particular focus in his new post is to advance the improving regulation agenda for business in Scotland, to successfully establish the National Economic Forum, and to drive the best possible value-added to the Scottish economy, through the work of the team he leads.
James Hynd James Hynd is currently responsible for all aspects of the provision of facilities and estate services for the Scottish Government. His role includes lead corporate responsibility for ensuring that processes and arrangements are in place to promote health and safety across the Scottish Government. He also has lead responsibility for overseeing the development and implementation of a programme of health and wellbeing activities. He has held a variety of posts in policy and delivery areas across the Scottish Government.
Kathy JenkinsKathy Jenkins is the secretary of the Scottish Hazards Campaign, a network of health and safety activists throughout Scotland. The Scottish network is an active part of the UK Hazards Campaign and the European Work Hazards Network, on whose steering group Kathy serves. Kathy has been an active trade unionist for 35 years and has served as health and safety workplace representative and branch officer since the mid 1990’s. Her professional background is in community development and public health/health promotion. She is also a Chartered Member of IOSH. She teaches a continuing professional development course in Workplace Health at Heriot Watt University which brings together health and safety, occupational health and workplace health promotion, with a major aim of promoting collaboration between all those involved in workplace health.
Karen is a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. She is currently the Chair for POOSH Scotland, which exists to promote the continuous improvement of the practice of occupational safety and health through education, communication and the encouragement of co-operation between people and agencies involved in the provision of a healthy and safe working environment. As a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development she is a firm believer in CPD and expanding her understanding of health, safety and the environment in the broadest context. She has successfully undertaken the Heriot-Watt University Centre for Continuing Education, Workplace Health (on-line) programme, the IEMA open book examinations, Certificate in Training Practice and a Masters in Safety Promotion through the Karolinska Institute Sweden. As Head of RoSPA in Scotland, Karen aims to encourage organisations to think more expansively about health and safety issues and how they can exert a positive influence outwith ‘traditional’ health and safety boundaries. This is achieved through leading the RoSPA Scottish Higher Performers’ Forum. Outwith work her time is consumed by her family, animals and Portmoak Community Woodland.
An architect who has specialised in safety issues for the last twenty-five years. Currently Scottish Director of the Health and Safety Executive, he was formerly Chief Executive of the Scottish Building Standards Agency. Between 1990 and 1997 he was a director of Abrahams Stollard Ltd, and Rosborough Stollard Ltd, fire engineers. Before that he was Research Director, Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies, York University. He is a former Visiting Professor of Architecture, Queen’s University of Belfast and was the 2006 recipient of the Peter Stone Award from the Association of Building Engineers. He is an Associate of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, an Associate Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, and a Chartered Engineer Member of the Institution of Fire Engineers. He has written five text books and numerous technical articles, including: “Fire From First Principles” (3rd Edition, 1999, E & F N Spon).
Ian Tasker Sarah joined HSE as a scientist in 1981. She analysed samples for major investigations and developed methodologies for measuring exposures to inorganic chemicals. In 1988, Sarah moved to HSE’s planning team where she worked on public expenditure accountability and performance measurement. She later moved to policy, working on implementing the European ‘six-pack’ directives, specifically the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations. From there Sarah spent some time on European and international work representing the UK on the EU Tripartite Health and Safety Committee and helping Poland to strengthen its health and safety regime in the run up to becoming an EU member state. Then followed a spell on chemicals policy developing a system for prioritising risk to plan the work of the advisory committee on toxic substances. During this period, Sarah’s trade union involvement increased culminating in terms of office as HSE trade union side secretary and chair – leading pay negotiations for over 4,000 staff. In 1993 she was elected to the Public and Commercial Services union’s national executive and became its vice president in 2000-2001. On retuning to full time HSE work, Sarah led a project looking at ways of supporting closer working on strategic programmes across HSE. She joined HSE in Scotland as head of the Director’s office in 2004 and has recently returned from a secondment to the Scottish Government co-ordinating delivery of the Scottish Action Plan on Health and Safety.
Sarah is policy adviser and secretary to PHASS.