Communities
Explore our global network of IOSH members
We have communities around the globe led by committees of member volunteers. These bring together members with a shared health and safety interest or specialism.
Why join?
Connecting with your fellow occupational safety and health professionals is an important part of IOSH membership. This is true whatever your member grade or career stage. It helps you keep your finger on the pulse of what's happening in your region and industry. You also gain valuable support and development opportunities.
Support for all
Join your local community to meet with fellow professionals, exchange ideas and hear the latest news and opinions. You can build your skills, competence and confidence through a programme of events and activities. You can also get help and support with:
- your career
- continuing professional development (CPD)
- membership progression
- and much more.
You benefit from events, ranging from networking and site visits to webinars and seminars. They all champion good practice and stimulate conversations to help you develop and enhance your knowledge. You can find out about the latest news and key issues and can add relevant opportunities to your CPD record.
Future leaders
We offer tailored content and support to new and aspiring occupational safety and health professionals. Discover all the ways our 7,800-strong community can support you.
How to join a community
Log in to your IOSH account to join one or more of our communities.
Our communities
England
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Bristol and West Community
- Chair – Natalie Von Tersch
- Vice chair – Andrew Ellis
- Committee member – Christopher Babayemi
- Committee member – Anne James
- Committee member – Simon Huckle
- Committee member – Nathanael Challacombe
- Committee member – Barry Robinson
- Committee member – Eric Fortry
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Chiltern
- Chair – Kevin Barr
- Vice Chair – Peter Reed
- Secretary – Jacob Moffat
- Committee member – J J Karsten
- Committee member – Joao Rosa
- Committee member – Anthony Cox
- Committee member – Luke James
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East Anglia
- Chair – Kane Bliss-Appleton
- Vice chair – Carly Hughes
- Secretary – Rosie Shurey
- Committee member – Daniel Dyball
- Committee member – Sheena Wiley
- Committee member – Andrew King
- Committee member – Charlie McAneany
- Committee member – Ashley Rimmer
- Committee member – Andrew Olby
- Committee member – Peter Ryles
- Committee member – Jacobus Kemp
- Committee member – Steven Ashby
- Committee member – Natasha Wales-dixon
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East Lancashire
- Chair – David Lawrence
- Vice chair – Michael Maxted
- Committee member – Lucy Hogan
- Committee member – Elizabeth Campbell
- Committee member – Christopher Knagg
- Committee member – Steve Winstanley
- Committee member – Michael Leatherbarrow
- Committee member – Michelle Blakey
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East Midlands
- Chair – Matthew Hall
- Vice chair – Carl West
- Committee member – Anthony Aframoah
- Committee member – Greg Rowan
- Committee member – Matthew Frost
- Committee member – Aamir Shahzad
- Committee member – Thomas Bancroft
- Committee member – Nicholas Howard
- Committee member – Mario Preite
- Committee member – Jason Lunn
- Committee member – Daniel Robinson
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Essex
- Chair – Terry Box
- Secretary – Elaine Appleby
- Committee member – Elizabeth Longman
- Committee member – Lorraine Larman
- Committee member – Padraig Keeble
- Committee member – Sara Thomas
- Committee member – Peter Watts
- Committee member – Muhammad Anas
- Committee member – Christopher Ryan
- Committee member – Adam Hills
- Committee member – Louise Davies
- Committee member – Sarah Lilienthal
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Humber
- Chair – Marcin Kaczorowski
- Vice chair – Melissa Harford
- Secretary – Joseph Gutkowski
- Committee member – Thomas Baxter
- Committee member – Ian Morley
- Committee member – Rebecca Howard
- Committee member – Darren Brighton
- Committee member – Matthew Breakell
- Committee member – Callum Sissons
- Committee member – David Stancill
- Committee member – Mark Robertson
- Committee member – Ian Rook
- Committee member – Oluwasegun Badmus
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London Metropolitan
- Chair – Joanne Casey
- Vice chair – Kyle Jackson
- Secretary – Slawomir Litwin
- Committee member – David Dewberry
- Committee member – Derek Stannard
- Committee member – Nikko Martin Medes
- Committee member – Valentina Basso
- Committee member – Zain Hamid
- Committee member – Enobong Udofot
- Committee member – Zahra HAJIGHORBANIDOULABI
- Committee member – Ngozi Ozonzeadi
- Committee member – Shirley Allen-Fletcher
- Committee member – Gillian Edwards
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Manchester and North West districts
- Chair – Liam Simpson
- Vice chair – Jennifer Lea
- Secretary – Humza Bin Masood
- Committee member – Matthew Sulley
- Committee member – Barbara Derecka
- Committee member – Eleanor Wheeler
- Committee member – Njoku Ogadinma
- Committee member – Paul Ingham
- Committee member – Clara Cheung
- Committee member – Toni Houghton
- Committee member – Andrew Jolley
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Merseyside
- Chair – Carolyn Smith
- Vice chair – Michael Corkhill
- Secretary – Mark Johnson
- Committee member – Lyndon Workman
- Committee member – Steve Chesworth
- Committee member – Edward Prendergast
- Committee member – Evonne Carr
- Committee member – Martin Jeffries
- Committee member – Dinoop George
- Committee member – Dan Hands
- Committee member – Tracey Welsh
- Committee member – Lesley Foster
- Committee member – Ekop Udosen
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Midland
- Chair – Mark Elton
- Vice chair – Angela Roberts
- Secretary – David Nii Sowah Kobbina Adjei
- Committee member – Chinomso Igwe
- Committee member – Margarita Watts
- Committee member – Onur Turhan
- Committee member – Chandrashekar Pitla
- Committee member – Ella Zywicka
- Committee member – Suleiman Ibrahim
- Committee member – Paul Nephin
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Mid Shires
- Chair – Simon Jones
- Vice chair – Barry Thompson
- Secretary – David Young
- Committee member – Leslie Pearce
- Committee member – Amardeep Liddar
- Committee member – Temitope Mudele
- Committee member – Stephen Youngman
- Committee member – Andrew Griffiths
- Committee member – Mario La Barbera
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North Wales
- Chair – Debbie Bruton
- Vice chair – Trevor Huskisson
- Committee member – Colin Brady
- Committee member – Ellen Clancy
- Committee member – Toby Hughes
- Committee member – Ralph Elliott-King
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South Cumbria and North Lancashire
- Chair – Mark Dandy
- Secretary – Deborah Williams
- Committee member – Graeme Woodman
- Committee member – Mark Leach
- Committee member – Rob Mayor
- Committee member – Gillian Huntington
- Committee member – Geoffrey Price
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South Downs
- Chair – Gregory Buckley
- Vice chair – Sean Wardle
- Secretary – Philippa McQuin
- Committee member – Natalie Schopen
- Committee member – Pippa Stocker
- Committee member – Ian Pickard
- Committee member – Kevin Spicer
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South East
- Chair – Stewart Melvin
- Vice chair – Jonelle Salter
- Secretary – Louise Mingay
- Committee member – Paul Monck
- Committee member – Akinola Gbagba
- Committee member – Amy O'Brien
- Committee member – Christopher Shortall
- Committee member – Dusan Forrai
- Committee member – Rene Forder
- Committee member – Steven Key-Smith
- Committee member – Wilford Belmar Merdegia Canlas
- Committee member – Sally Parkes
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South Midlands
- Secretary – Deborah Rider
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South West
- Chair – Simon Beer
- Vice chair – Marcus Butcher
- Secretary – Nigel Cox
- Committee member – Allison Gray
- Committee member – Andrew John Peters
- Committee member – Trevor Williamson
- Committee member – Paul Emmery
- Committee member – Peter Sawford
- Committee member – Adam Worth
- Committee member – Timothy Harnett
- Committee member – Joe Weller
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Staffordshire
- Chair – Trudy Clements
- Vice chair – Robert Andrews
- Secretary – Anna Hickman
- Committee member – Mark Nixon
- Committee member – Sharon Parkes
- Committee member – Daniel Jackson
- Committee member – Bernard Mucha
- Committee member – Kieron Dolan
- Committee member – Miguel Pinto
- Committee member – Jennifer Childs
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Tees
- Chair – Andrew McKenna
- Vice chair – Ashley Hurst
- Secretary – Shona MacMillan
- Committee member – Steven Westcough
- Committee member – Jennifer Noakes
- Committee member – Godspower Omovototu
- Committee member – Allan Gibson
- Committee member – Rachel Evans
- Committee member – Michael Hann
- Committee member – Trevor Smith
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Thames Valley
- Chair – Stephen Ablett
- Vice chair – Emma Mason
- Secretary – Krishna Mistry
- Committee member – Olakunle Obafemi
- Committee member – Sara Bonney
- Committee member – Nataliya Christensen
- Committee member – Richard Battley
- Committee member – Damion Jones
- Committee member – David MacDonald
- Committee member – Kelly Nicoll
- Committee member – Bilge Yerdelen
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Tyne and Wear
- Chair – Alan Ford
- Vice chair – Caroline Brown
- Secretary – Lynne Walker
- Committee member – Adam Gawne
- Committee member – Karen Tyson
- Committee member – Pohyee Wong
- Committee member – Adam King
- Committee member – Andrew Reay
- Committee member – Duncan Latimer
- Committee member – Felix Devine
- Committee member – Chijioke Vincent Okogbue
- Committee member – Alan Morley
- Committee member – John Mills
Scotland
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Edinburgh
- Chair – Rebecca Williams
- Vice chair – Aishling Burke
- Secretary – Fraser Dunmore
- Committee member – Richard Burrell
- Committee member – Chris Brannan
- Committee member – Ghulam Murtaza
- Committee member – Joseph Guilfoyle
- Committee member – Scott Meechan
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Forth and Tay
- Chair – Dawn Maclean
- Secretary – John Macgregor
- Committee member – Stanley Brown
- Committee member – Kazym Lepessov
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Highlands and Islands
- Chair – Sarah Sharp
- Vice chair – Jessie Szego
- Committee member – Colin Bayley-Williams
- Committee member – Dawn McKenzie
- Committee member – Steven Goodlad
- Committee member – Peter Braithwaite
- Committee member – Mark Shaw
- Committee member – Alanah Campbell
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North East of Scotland
- Chair – Rachel Hendron
- Vice chair – Michelle Forth-burnett
- Secretary – Craig McAndie
- Committee member – Chloe Knight
- Committee member – Lucky Osayi
- Committee member – Peter Davies-Shuck
- Committee member – Derek Watt
- Committee member – Aron Clarke
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West of Scotland
- Chair – Alex Petrie
- Vice chair – Keith Lyall
- Committee member – Adolphus Jnr Tay
- Committee member – Frederick Cullum
- Committee member – Kenneth McCartney
- Committee member – Nathan Jessimer
- Committee member – Amanda Casey
- Committee member – Kieran Doona
- Committee member – Patrick Gardiner
- Committee member – George Mills
Wales
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North Wales
- Chair – Kevin Mark Howard-Perry
- Secretary – John Pilkington
- Committee member – Nicholas Jones
- Committee member – Nivedita Mukherjee
- Committee member – Samir Adhikari
- Committee member – Richard Bladon
- Committee member – Susan Morgan
- Committee member – Michelle Stonley
- Committee member – Richard Bate
- Committee member – John Jones
- Committee member – Shoaib Hussain
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South Wales
- Chair – Alan Thomas
- Vice chair – Stephanie Hanwell
- Secretary – Martyn Clark
- Committee member – Michael John
- Committee member – Erin Thomas
- Committee member – David Puntan
- Committee member – Keith Morey
- Committee member – Claire Pryce
- Committee member – Alan Protheroe
- Committee member – Timothy Harris
- Committee member – Gareth Wilson
- Committee member – Ann Jones
- Committee member – Lana Abbott
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West Wales
- Committee member – Benjamin Sidney Thomas
- Committee member – Gary Tapley
Northern Ireland
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Northern Ireland
- Chair – David Donnelly
- Secretary – Daniel Ward
- Committee member – Cathal Goodwin
- Committee member – Andrew Mackenzie
- Committee member – Michelle Doran
- Committee member – Ashin Thomas Jacob
- Committee member – John Walford
- Committee member – Paul McLaughlin
- Committee member – Rachael McKerr
- Committee member – Robert Fairless
- Committee member – George Stanfield
- Committee member – Kyle Armstrong
Ireland
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Ireland
- Chair – John Connelly
- Vice chair – Justin Whyte
- Secretary – Debra Lowth
- Committee member – Fabian Murphy
- Committee member – Fergal Murray
- Committee member – Niamh McNulty
- Committee member – Noel Clarke
- Committee member – Valentin Gallagher
- Committee member – John English
- Committee member – Michael Keating
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Ireland Construction
- Chair – Paul Daly
- Vice chair – Martin Cronin
- Secretary – John Egan
- Committee member – Alanna Duffy
- Committee member – Charles Rodgers
- Committee member – Martina McElvaney
- Committee member – Caroline Leahy
- Committee member – Mark Williams
- Committee member – Kevin Blanche
Worldwide
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Caribbean
- Chair – Shazam Edoo
- Vice chair – Navin Ragoo
- Secretary – Alina Dhanoolal
- Committee member – Angelene Roopchan
- Committee member – Shazara Ali Bocas
- Committee member – Sheena Briggs-Edwards
- Committee member – Zahir Ali
- Committee member – Michelle Baptiste
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Hong Kong
- Chair – Chi Wah Cheng
- Vice chair – Lap Chiu Choi
- Committee member – Paul Fu Hoi
- Committee member – Lea Christian Teale
- Committee member – Tsz Ho Mak
- Committee member – Sheung Fai, Simon Ng
- Committee member – Ming Yin Kwan
- Committee member – Sze Wai Lui
- Committee member – Ka Chun Yeung
- Committee member – Iris Ng
- Committee member – Hon Ching John Li
- Committee member – Siu Hei Douglas Ma
- Committee member – Ning Leung
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Oman
- Chair – Neelesh Sogani
- Vice chair – Noor Qadeem Khan
- Secretary – Noman Ahmed Niazi
- Committee member – Mohamed Mudather Suliman
- Committee member – Abdul Karim Vp Vettiyanickal
- Committee member – Jamil Ehab
- Committee member – Mebin Mamachan
- Committee member – Mohamed Abbas Awad
- Committee member – Muhammad Yasir Arain
- Committee member – Praveen Sundarapandiyan
- Committee member – Basil George
- Committee member – Robinson D'Souza
- Committee member – Akram Khan
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Qatar
- Chair – Valentine Mmereole
- Vice chair – Vincent Ramkissoon
- Secretary – Mansoor Ahmed
- Committee member – John Felix Guerrero
- Committee member – Allamdar Hussain
- Committee member – Ananthanarayanan Parameshwaran Iyer
- Committee member – Irshad Alam
- Committee member – Kuttiraj Paulraj
- Committee member – Mohammad Babuddin Ansari
- Committee member – Adewale A. Abdulrahman Olusi
- Committee member – Augustine Ogbolu
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Singapore
- Chair – Ping Lim
- Vice chair – Jc Sekar
- Committee member – Andrea Colombo
- Committee member – Hemantha Dodangoda
- Committee member – Ram Bhavan Maurya
- Committee member – Alexander Maroske
- Committee member – Sivadasan Pariyarat
- Committee member – She Kok Keong
- Committee member – Aswin Pasaribu
- Committee member – William Maiker
- Committee member – Narender Kumar
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United Arab Emirates (UAE)
- Chair – Syed Mazhar Ali Shah
- Vice chair – Shahan Bacha
- Secretary – Asif Ali
- Committee member – Ahmed Shams
- Committee member – Aparna Jayadevan
- Committee member – Haridas Veettil Nambiar
- Committee member – Haroon Ur Rashid
- Committee member – Wilson Kehla Kongnyuy
- Committee member – Caroline Ann Savage
- Committee member – Hafiz Abdul Basit
- Committee member – Meraj Asim
- Committee member – Faisal Jalil
- Committee member – Qadir Mahmood
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West Africa
- Chair – Oluwakemi Arumosoye
- Vice chair – Gabriel Bolatito
- Secretary – Samuel Kwamena Eyeson
- Committee member – Diseye Oba
- Committee member – Abanum Iruoghene Isakpa
- Committee member – Yetunde Moyosola Adeola
- Committee member – Fatiu Mohammed Abdullahi
- Committee member – Christian Eshemogie
- Committee member – Ajiri-Oghene Ukponmwan
- Committee member – Alfred Abolade Ajao
- Committee member – Ubong Monday Ufford
- Committee member – Julius Akpong
- Committee member – Justice Nkrumah
Industry
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Aviation and Aerospace
- Chair – Shane Berry
- Vice chair – Gregory Price-Jones
- Committee member – Joanna Di Monda
- Committee member – Daniel Marsden
- Committee member – Chris Belcher
- Committee member – Emile MacDonald-Williams
- Committee member – Yee Man Tania To
- Committee member – Fednard Mogusu
- Committee member – Gautham Guru
- Committee member – Samantha Moss
- Committee member – Oliver Holman
- Committee member – Badar Kareem
- Committee member – Bruce Wong Siu Fung
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Broadcasting and Telecommunications
- Chair – Adam Elsworth
- Secretary – Ammad Sohail Muhammad Sohail
- Committee member – Kenneth Law
- Committee member – Kavitha Pillai
- Committee member – Dan Tranter
- Committee member – Jason Geddes
- Committee member – Richard Bradshaw
- Committee member – Ali Hamza
- Committee member – Megan Burgess
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Construction
- Chair – Shaun Lundy
- Vice Chair – Paul Griffiths
- Secretary – Haridas Veettil Nambiar
- Committee member – Christina Doherty
- Committee member – Racheal Oluwabusayo David
- Committee member – Paul Cassidy
- Committee member – Michael Harding
- Committee member – Siu Mun Li
- Committee member – Andrew Miller
- Committee member – Michael Brandwood
- Committee member – James Minton
- Committee member – Amanda Lawson
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Consultancy
- Chair – Michael Cash
- Vice chair – Mireya Rifa Fabregat
- Secretary – Swamynathan Govindaswamy Palani
- Committee member – Natalie Obrien
- Committee member – Joanne Price
- Committee member – Nicholas Wilson
- Committee member – Mohamed Eltobgy
- Committee member – Anthony Philip Baker
- Committee member – Karl Tindale
- Committee member – Matthew Breakell
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Education
- Chair – Stuart Langston
- Vice chair – Andrew Smith
- Committee member – Bruce Griffin
- Committee member – Christopher Ohanians
- Committee member – James Lewington
- Committee member – Samantha Raybould
- Committee member – Carina Kennedy
- Committee member – Adele Partridge
- Committee member – Jeanette Harris
- Committee member – Katie Bennett
- Committee member – Vicki Filby-Filson
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Environmental and Waste Management
- Chair – Liam Wood
- Vice chair – Dagmara Szczerba
- Secretary – Irfan Shahed
- Committee member – David Donnelly
- Committee member – Ali Ahsan
- Committee member – Dominika Gridley
- Committee member – Abhilash Raghavan
- Committee member – Jeff-peters Ikeogu
- Committee member – Peter Sawford
- Committee member – Hayley Goddard
- Committee member – Edward Onwona-Debrah
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Financial Services Professional Services and Facilities Management
- Chair – Simon Pullen
- Vice chair – Tracy Thomas
- Committee member – Midhun Subramanian
- Committee member – Emmanuel Osuntade
- Committee member – Mohammed Bhaaaldien Almubark Ali
- Committee member – Sherin Thomas
- Committee member – Christopher Moore
- Committee member – Jeremy Nicholls
- Committee member – Mohammed Haris Asmath
- Committee member – Yvette Den-Drijver
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Fire Risk Management
- Chair – John Field
- Vice chair – Daniel Pyett
- Secretary – Dagmara Szczerba
- Committee member – Bernie Higgins
- Committee member – Andrew Wood
- Committee member – Sheren Rose
- Committee member – Jayachandran C V
- Committee member – Steve Pickston
- Committee member – Anne Isaacs
- Committee member – Ian Scott
- Committee member – Luke Lewis
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Food and Drink Industries
- Vice chair – Thomas Jide Oshun
- Committee member – Craig Foyle
- Committee member – Alison Wright
- Committee member – Simon Brentnall
- Committee member – David Lambeth
- Committee member – Dan Wain
- Committee member – Ivor Long
- Committee member – Christopher Green
- Committee member – Kye Davis
- Committee member – Rachel Betteridge
- Committee member – Angela Gray
- Committee member – Gary Fern
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Hazardous Industries
- Chair – Neil Blacklock
- Vice chair – Ria Sooknarine
- Committee member – Curt Cadet
- Committee member – Dave Stephen
- Committee member – Chukwuma Frank
- Committee member – Ian Russon
- Committee member – Andrew Morris
- Committee member – Lawrence Webb
- Committee member – Beth Dreano
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Health and Social Care
- Chair – Matthew Hall
- Vice chair – Stewart Crowe
- Committee member – Uchenna Okoli
- Committee member – Freddie Warnock
- Committee member – Kathleen Titley
- Committee member – Lee Mockridge
- Committee member – Philip Tanner
- Committee member – Louise Church
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Logistics and Retail
- Chair – Anuj Dutta Sharma
- Vice chair – Luke Mason
- Committee member – Christopher Pierce
- Committee member – Syed Muhammad Yousaf Ali
- Committee member – Izegaegbe Ozoya
- Committee member – Sai Ramakrishna Veldhi
- Committee member – Najabat Mahmood
- Committee member – Caroline Organer
- Committee member – Hannah Smith
- Committee member – Jeffrey Hilton
- Committee member – Donna Walker
- Committee member – Lucy Gordon
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Offshore
- Chair – Rachel Hendron
- Vice chair – Caroline Kannwischer
- Secretary – Rhona Lyall
- Committee member – Tracey McDonald
- Committee member – Noel Clarke
- Committee member – Jahangir Khan
- Committee member – Mbanwei Kenneth Ndamukong
- Committee member – Mohamed Sadek
- Committee member – Roman Vtorov
- Committee member – Callum Kerr
- Committee member – James Hounsell
- Committee member – Scott Roberts
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Public Services
- Committee member – Matthew Herrington
- Committee member – Breda Colgan
- Committee member – Aqeel Khawaja
- Committee member – Ian Moore
- Committee member – Joe Donnelly
- Committee member – Kenneth McCartney
- Committee member – Rene Forder
- Committee member – Tracy Curtis
- Committee member – Neil Moon
- Committee member – Barbara Serwaa Nanko
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Railway
- Chair – Ken Byrne
- Vice chair – Wayne Murphy
- Secretary – Ishbel Macgregor-Curtin
- Committee member – Keith Lyall
- Committee member – James Pettitt
- Committee member – Gemma Lavery
- Committee member – Alin-Gabriel Trusca
- Committee member – Matthew Hulls
- Committee member – Samantha Banfield
- Committee member – Paul Appleton
- Committee member – Simon French
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Rural Industries
- Chair – Michael Whiting
- Vice chair – Petra Martin
- Secretary – Kerry Cringan
- Committee member – Agnieszka Browne
- Committee member – Charlotte Evans
- Committee member – A Buckley
- Committee member – Trudy Herniman
- Committee member – Elizabeth Johnson
- Committee member – Phillip Smith
- Committee member – Chris Cooper-Abbs
- Committee member – Kenneth Law
- Committee member – Gabriela Baxter
- Committee member – Philip Plume
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Sports Entertainment and Leisure
- Chair – Heather Fitsell
- Vice chair – Rupert Crayston
- Secretary – Andrew Bober
- Committee member – Thomas Wike
- Committee member – Angela Roberts
- Committee member – Nick Love
- Committee member – Daniel Warwick
- Committee member – Peter Swordy
- Committee member – Macauley Quinn
- Committee member – Martin Barraclough
- Committee member – John Newcombe
- Committee member – Richard Bate
Volunteer-led events
Our communities regularly run events and webinars on a range of health and safety topics and industry-specific issues. You can register for an upcoming event or view recordings of previous webinars.
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