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15 November 2010 - NR 53/10

New President for world’s leading professional health and safety body

The world’s largest body for health and safety professionals recently welcomed its new President to lead the organisation for the coming year.

Steve Granger was inaugurated at the Leicester-based Institution of Occupational Safety and Health’s (IOSH) Annual Networks Conference.

On his first address after taking the baton from Immediate Past President John Holden, he encouraged a positive approach for the tough times ahead and said he wanted IOSH members to be at the heart of business decisions, and to provide help and support on health and safety issues over the coming year.

Steve, from Midhurst, West Sussex, said: “I am immensely proud to be the face of IOSH for 2011. I’m looking forward to playing a role in ensuring that the organisation is the definitive voice of health and safety across the world.”

He also referred to Lord Young’s ‘Common Sense – Common Safety’ review as a great educational tool for those who wanted to find out what has gone wrong with the public perception of health and safety.

“The report provides an excellent observation tower to see where we have been, where we are, and where we are going.

“It is quite clear he is not pointing the blame at our professionalism, in fact to the contrary - he welcomes our help,” he added.

On the year ahead, Steve revealed that he felt IOSH was in a position to do more in the way of disaster management, using the expertise within its membership.

“IOSH has a supportive role to play where our safety experts are concerned and I believe we can help to deliver both immediate and longer term support to existing relief organisations,” he added.

At the conference on 8 and 9 November, he also said that the safety experts IOSH has across industries including demolition, repair, design, construction and civil engineering, could ‘help make a difference in the long game of societal repair’.

Steve began his career with the Royal Navy in Portsmouth, serving an engineering apprenticeship. A Chartered Member of IOSH, he has worked in education, the public sector and business consultancy and is a director of The Granger Partnership Ltd in West Sussex.

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Notes for editors:

IOSH is the Chartered body for health and safety professionals. With more than 40,000 members in 85 countries, we’re the world’s biggest professional health and safety organisation.

We set standards, and support, develop and connect our members with resources, guidance, events and training. We’re the voice of the profession, and campaign on issues that affect millions of working people.

IOSH was founded in 1945 and is a registered charity with international NGO status.