Appointed to the Board of the Health & Safety Executive in April 2008, David has an engineering and manufacturing background.
With an engineering science degree from Oxford, he worked for consulting engineers and contractors on bridge design and construction, before joining ICI (one of the forerunners of AstraZeneca) in 1977.
A variety of engineering roles followed before a move into manufacturing management in 1987.
Appointed Works Manager in Bristol in 1989, David subsequently filled similar roles for ICI, and post-demerger, Zeneca, at Grangemouth (1992) and Macclesfield (1995).
He was Head of UK Operations for AstraZeneca until 2005, when he was promoted to Vice-President, Safety Health & Environment for AstraZeneca.
David took early retirement from that role in 2008.
Married to Margaret, a teacher, he has two grown-up sons.
| 1 | Companies, partnerships, trusts or other bodies of which you are a paid employee. | I'm an AstraZeneca pensioner. |
| 2 | Companies and organisations in which you or your family or close associates: | |
| a) has/have a controlling interest, or | Nil | |
| b) is/ are a Director or Partner, or | Nil | |
| c) has/have shares or securities with a nominal value of more than £25,000 or one hundredth of the total issues share capital, and | Shareholdings greater than this value in AstraZeneca and Whitbread | |
| d) could be involved in the supply of goods or services to, or have business dealings with the HSE | Network Rail Public Member | |
| 3 | Non-profit making organisations (e.g. charities, housing associations) where you or your close family are Trustees, or on the Committee of Management or other controlling body and which might receive grants, carry out activities designed to promote or develop the organisation, or have other significant dealings with the HSE | My wife is Chair of Governors at Marlfields Primary School, Congleton |
| 4 | Any land or property in which a member has a direct interest and is clearly within HSE's sphere of activities. | Nil |
| 5 | Membership of local authorities, health authorities and trusts, the Magistrates Bench, and relevant voluntary sector bodies. | My wife and I are members of the National Trust, National Trust for Scotland, The Woodland Trust, Scottish Wildlife Trust & John Muir Trust |
