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.
Stewart CampbellStewart is currently HSE Director, Scotland. He has been an HSE Inspector for over 30 years and has worked in Aberdeen, London, Bootle and Kent, where he was HSE's Principal Inspector during the construction of the Channel Tunnel. He returned to Scotland in 1993 as Area Director in Glasgow and has been HSE Director Scotland since 2001. Stewart is the HSE independent member of the Potters Bar train derailment investigation board. In the 1980s Stewart was awarded a Nuffield and Leverhulme Travelling Fellowship to study the Labour Inspectorate of the European Community, and has maintained an interest and involvement in European approach and comparisons; he has recently completed work on the revision of the European 'Common Principles of inspection', Stewart is leading the development of a Health and Safety Committee for Scotland and HSE's participation in the Scottish Executive's 'Healthy Working Lives' initiative. He is a member of the HSE/LA Local Authority Steering Group for the Scotland's Health at Work award scheme. Stewart is married with two sons and lives in Helensburgh. His interests include golf, genealogy and gardening. He is a trustee of the Psoriasis Association and supports the work of the Voluntary Service Overseas.
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.
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: Adviser 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.
Ralph Garden is currently Head of Facilities and Estates in the Scottish Government which includes responsibility for Health and Safety across the main government departments. This covers the staff of over 50 different buildings across Scotland ranging from the large offices in Edinburgh and Glasgow to small units in remote parts of the Highlands and Islands. He and his staff also have significant involvement with many of the Scottish Government’s Agencies and NDPBs. With his responsibilities also spanning practical operations, he is particularly keen to ensure that the approach to Health and Safety is a practical one that helps and supports businesses rather than becoming a procedural burden.
A graduate of Aberdeen University and a qualified actuary, his previous experience includes periods as Chief Executive of the Scottish Public Pensions Agency where he oversaw that Agency’s relocation to Galashiels and as Operations Director of Scottish Widows. He is married with three grown–up children and lives in Edinburgh. His interests mostly involve sports or travel.
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.
Ian LaveryIan is currently Corporate Health and Safety Manager with Glasgow City Council. The Council is the largest in Scotland and employs over 34,000 staff with 26 full time health and safety staff covering all its Services. Ian started his health and safety career in 1988 in Strathclyde Regional Council. In 1996 he joined Glasgow City Council and in 2000 he was appointed the Council’s Health and Safety Manager. He represents the 32 Councils in Scotland at the Local Authority Forum. The L.A. Forum is a consultative body made up of representatives from the HSE, Local Authority Employees and Trade Unions.
He is also a Chartered Member of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. Ian is married with one son and two daughters and lives in Newton Mearns. His interests include swimming and hill walking.
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.
Linda Shanahan Linda has been involved in the trade union movement through the Fire Brigades Union since 1980 and a member of the STUC General Council since 2002. She is currently seconded through the STUC and Fife Fire and Rescue Service to work on a package of measures to protect workers who engage with the public from verbal and physical abuse. Currently she is working with the Scottish Centre for Healthy Working Lives integrating the advice and knowledge on this issue into the work of the Centre and promoting the resources available to assist particularly smaller employers access information and resources to deal with it effectively. Her involvement in the Fire Brigades Union has given her a thorough grounding in health and safety, equal opportunities and general employment matters.
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Trevor Johnson (PHASS Secretary) Trevor started working for the Health and Safety Executive in 1989 as HM Inspector of Health and Safety. Although he dealt with a range of sectors there was a greater involvement in the manufacturing industries and domestic gas safety. In 1999 he moved to HSE’s Edinburgh office as HM Principal Inspector of Health and Safety managing a group of inspectors involved in the manufacturing sector within the east of Scotland. In addition, Trevor was involved in a number of business improvement projects particularly looking at ways to increase the time spent by inspectors in front line work. In 2004 he became the Head of the Asbestos Licensing Unit which involved the management of HSE’s licensing of contractors who work with asbestos and advising on the development of the Control of Asbestos at Work Regulations 2006. In 2006 Trevor became the lines of inquiry for the ICL investigation and joined HSE’s Director, Scotland office in 2007.