{"id":69951,"date":"2016-04-26T13:22:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T13:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=56cba563bc868498b0b27d61aa18ac49"},"modified":"2016-04-26T13:22:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T13:22:02","slug":"press-release-martin-temple-appointed-as-the-new-chair-of-hse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=69951","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Martin Temple appointed as the new Chair of HSE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Martin has more than 30 years of experience in private and public sector roles, including senior positions at the Sheffield Hospital Trust, EEF Manufacturers\u2019 Organisation and 600 group.<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Disabled People, Justin Tomlinson said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I am delighted with Martin\u2019s appointment. He brings a wealth of experience to the role and joins at a time when the work of the <abbr title=\"Health and Safety Executive\">HSE<\/abbr> in promoting health and safety amongst employers is as important as ever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Martin Temple, the new Chair of the Health and Safety Executive said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I am delighted to be appointed as <abbr title=\"Health and Safety Executive\">HSE<\/abbr> Chair. I hold a long-standing interest in Health and Safety and look forward to working with <abbr title=\"Health and Safety Executive\">HSE<\/abbr> 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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 id=\"more-information\">More information<\/h2>\n<p>Martin is an experienced director, having served on a number of boards in the public and charity sector. He is currently:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chairman of the Design Council<\/li>\n<li>a non-executive director of the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust<\/li>\n<li>on the Council of the University of Warwick<\/li>\n<li>Chairman of the Advisory Board of Warwick Business School.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He has previously worked with <abbr title=\"Health and Safety Executive\">HSE<\/abbr>, having led an independent triennial review of the Health and Safety Executive in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Martin will take up the role from 1 May 2016, following Dame Judith Hackitt\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"Health and Safety Executive\">HSE<\/abbr> is the national regulator for workplace health and safety.  It aims to prevent death, injury and ill health in Great Britain\u2019s workplaces. It does so:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>through research<\/li>\n<li>by providing information and advice<\/li>\n<li>by promoting training<\/li>\n<li>by producing new or revised regulations and codes of practice<\/li>\n<li>by working with local authority partners by inspection, investigation and enforcement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>Read more about the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hse.gov.uk\/\">Health and Safety Executive<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"contact-press-office\">Contact Press Office<\/h2>\n<p>Media enquiries for this press release: 0203 267 5130<\/p>\n<div class=\"contact postal-address\" id=\"contact_827\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Press Office<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<p class=\"adr\">\n<span class=\"street-address\">Caxton House<br \/>\n<br \/>\nTothill Street<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"locality\">London<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"postal-code\">SW1H 9NA<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">London Press Office (national media and London area enquiries only \u2013 not questions about personal claims)<\/span><br \/>\n              020 3267 5144\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Out-of-hours (journalists only)<\/span><br \/>\n              076 59 108 883\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">England and Wales (local media enquiries)<\/span><br \/>\n              029 20 586 then 097 or 098 or 099\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Scotland (local media enquiries)<\/span><br \/>\n              0131 310 1122\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Follow DWP on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Twitter \u2013 <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/dwppressoffice\">www.twitter.com\/dwppressoffice<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Facebook \u2013 <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dwp\">www.facebook.com\/dwp<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>LinkedIn \u2013 <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/dwp\">www.linkedin.com\/company\/dwp<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>YouTube \u2013 <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/dwp\">www.youtube.com\/dwp<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department for Work and Pensions has appointed Martin Temple as Chair of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}