Martin Temple appointed as new Chair of HSE

The Department for Work and Pensions has appointed Martin Temple as Chair of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Board.

Martin Temple, currently Chairman of the Design Council, has been appointed Chair of the Health and Safety Executive Board.

He will take up the role from 1 May 2016, following Dame Judith Hackitt’s departure.

He has more than 30 years of experience in private and public sector roles, working as a non-executive director of the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust, EEF Manufacturers’ Organisation and 600 group. Mr Temple is on the Council of the University of Warwick, and Chairman of the Advisory Board of Warwick Business School.

Minister for Disabled People, Justin Tomlinson said: “I am delighted with Martin’s appointment. He brings a wealth of experience to the role and joins at a time when the work of the HSE in promoting health and safety amongst employers is as important as ever.

“I also want to take this opportunity to thank Judith Hackitt as the outgoing Chair. Under her leadership the organisation has gone from strength to strength.”

Martin Temple, the new Chair of the Health and Safety Executive said: “I am delighted to be appointed as HSE Chair. I hold a long-standing interest in Health and Safety and look forward to working with HSE and the board to build on its success as a world-leading workplace health and safety regulator and I look forward to this challenge and the opportunities ahead.”

HSE is the national regulator for workplace health and safety and aims to prevent death, injury and ill health through research in Great Britain’s workplaces. It does so by providing information and advice, promoting training, producing new or revised regulations and codes of practice and by working with local authority partners by inspection, investigation and enforcement.

He has previously worked with HSE, having led an independent triennial review of the Health and Safety Executive in 2014.

 

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