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Professor Richard Taylor has been appointed to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Board as non-executive director. David Gartside has been re-appointed for a further three year term. Both
appointment and re-appointment are for a three year term starting 1 April 2011.
The Health and Safety Executive is the national regulator for workplace health and safety. It aims to prevent death, injury and ill health in Great Britain’s workplaces.
Professor Taylor, a health and safety risk management specialist, with a particular interest in safety culture, has been appointed as the HSE Board member representing the interests of
professional bodies.
Professor Richard Taylor has had a lengthy career in health and safety - including nuclear safety - both in industry and academia. He is now a risk management consultant, and a visiting
Professor at both City University and the University of Bristol, following a 20 year career (1986-2005) in which he occupied a range of senior safety management positions with CEGB, Nuclear
Electric plc, and Magnox Electric plc, finishing as a Corporate Head of Environment, Health and Safety at BNFL plc.
David Gartside was first appointed as an employer interests representative on 1 April 2008 for a period of three years. 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. He was Head
of UK Operations for AstraZeneca until 2005, when he was promoted to Vice-President, Safety Health & Environment for AstraZeneca, taking early retirement from that role in 2008.