RoSPA Awards : 2007 Roll of Honour : Citations
The Sir George Earle Trophy
Costain Major Civil Engineering Division
Costain Major Civil Engineering Division was selected as winner of the 2007 Sir George Earle Trophy in the face of stiff competition from Aramark Limited - Offshore and Serco Docklands, with all three finalists demonstrating outstanding approaches to health and safety management.
Factors which saw Costain MCED take the Trophy included their senior managers’ robust commitment and leadership; the approach to performance target setting and review; initiatives taken to enhance the leadership role of supervisors and the approach to providing comprehensive occupational health services at site level, including their policy on drugs and alcohol.
The RoSPA Awards Panel was also particularly impressed by the approach to team briefings; the training provided for sub-contractors; and the company’s efforts to liaise on health, safety and environmental issues with local communities in the vicinity of their projects.
RoSPA Distinguished Service Award
Sir Bill Callaghan
As chair of the Health and Safety Commission since 1999, Sir Bill Callaghan has played an important role in re-focussing the efforts of the Health and Safety Executive and its partners to help reduce work related injuries and ill health.
In particular he was instrumental in driving forward the ‘Revitalising Health and Safety’ initiative, key dimensions of which included director leadership of health and safety, workforce involvement, performance improvement targets and the creation of HSE priority topics. Other important contributions have included his work to strengthen HSE’s partnership with local authorities and a reinvigoration of HSE’s occupational health agenda, integrating this with the Government’s plans to improve health work and well being.
Bill has also risen to the challenge posed by excessive risk aversion, not only defending HSE against unjust criticism in parts of the media but campaigning the case for ‘sensible safety’ and the need for regulators and duty holders to make a proportionate response to risk. Previously Chief Economist at the TUC, Bill has worked tirelessly with many different groups in industry and public life and has sat on the boards of Business in the Community and the Basic Skills Agency. A Visiting Fellow of Nuffield College Oxford, he has also served on the Low Pay Commission from 1997–2000 and was also a member of the Economic and Social Research Council's Research Priorities Board.
Professor Andrew Hale
Professor Andrew Hale has made an outstanding contribution in promoting the cause of health and safety at work at an international level, helping to develop the subject as an academic discipline and harmonising safety professional training.
Having graduated in 1966 from Cambridge University, Andrew started his career working at the National Institute of Industrial Psychology (NIIP) before moving on to Aston University, where he helped found the Department of Safety & Hygiene. During 12 years at Aston he was instrumental in the establishment of HASTAM.
From 1984 to early 2007, Andrew was Professor of Safety Science at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, where he developed and led a multidisciplinary group whose work included developing the first university Masters courses for safety in the Netherlands. In recognition of his work to develop health and safety as an academic discipline and his services to safety in the Netherlands he was awarded a knighthood in the Dutch birthday honours in 2006. He has chaired or been a member of several advisory, certification and executive committees both at national level in the Netherlands and also at European level. He is chief editor of the scientific journal Safety Science and a past or present member of the editorial boards of six other scientific journals.
Allan St John Holt (posthumous)
Allan St John Holt was a highly respected practitioner who contributed hugely to improving workplace health and safety in the UK - and across the world.
Having started his health and safety career in the early 1960s, he qualified in 1970 to become a member of the Institution of Industrial Safety Officers (IISO), which later evolved into the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, on whose Council of Management he served for nearly 30 years. As president twice of IOSH, Allan played a major role in its global development and he was also one of the driving forces behind the formation of NEBOSH.
He was recognised internationally – particularly in the USA - for his work in construction health and safety. In 1991 he published ‘Principles of health and safety at work’ – which became an obligatory practical text for students worldwide. He worked for many of the UK’s leading businesses and at the time of his death was Group Head of Health and Safety at Royal Mail. For this achievement, and his lifelong service to health and safety, Allan had been awarded the OBE in the 2007 New Year’s Honours List, which he was to have collected at the end of May.
Professor Sayeed Khan
Professor Sayeed Khan has made an influential contribution to the improvement of occupational health. Starting work as a machinist in a small engineering works in South Wales, he went on to qualify and practise as a GP. Further training saw him studying occupational medicine at Nottingham University and in 2002 he was made a Fellow of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine (FoM) of the Royal College of Physicians for his contributions to the specialty.
After ten years working with Rolls Royce, Sayeed became the first Chief Medical Adviser at the Engineering Employers’ Federation (EEF) the manufacturers' organisation, where his roles involve delivery of the occupational health strategy, including initiatives on stress management, return to work/absence management and rehabilitation. He also advises regional Associations and their members on access to occupational health support services.
In 2005 he was appointed as an HSC Commissioner with the task of representing the views of the major occupational health, safety and occupational hygiene professional bodies in the UK.
Sayeed is on the British Occupational Health Research Foundation/ FOM Scientific Committee, the NHS plus evidence-based medicine guidelines advisory group, the Department of Health sickness absence certification project advisory board and, prior to his appointment to the HSC, he was a member of the Continuous Improvement Programme Action Group (‘Securing Health Together’).
David Whomsley
Over his long and distinguished career in the field of health and safety at work, David Whomsley has worked tirelessly to help raise standards in both labour inspection, and in the education of safety professionals.
Having started out as an Assistant Production Manager with British Steel, David worked as an Inspector of Factories for the Department of Employment, before his first involvement in training development and provision while Senior Training Advisor to the Construction Industry Training Board. Joining HSE in 1971, he served for over 20 years, progressing through the ranks of the Factory Inspectorate, becoming Area Director for the Welsh region and then Deputy Chief Inspector of Factories.
Since 1992, David has provided expert consultancy on inspection practices to clients including the European Commission, the Government of Poland and the Labour Inspectorates of Hungary and Lithuania. Working with NEBOSH over the same period, he was responsible for the development of the NEBOSH Two Part Diploma, then the recognised qualification for health and safety professionals in the UK and beyond. He continues to act as standards adviser to several NEBOSH course providers. David is also Assessor for the Corporate Health Standard for the Welsh Assembly Government.
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