ROGER BIBBINGS
Roger Bibbings is RoSPA’s occupational safety adviser. Prior to taking up this post in April 1994, he was, for 17 years, health and safety adviser at the Trades Union Congress where he worked closely with the Health and Safety Commission and Executive and also with the European Commission (DGV).
As a senior manager in RoSPA’s Safety Policy Division, his role is to advise the Society on all matters associated with work related risk and to help it expand its contribution to the British ‘health and safety system’. In addition to his contributing to RoSPA’s occupational health and safety journals and the Society’s annual Health and Safety Congresses and Awards and servicing its National Occupational Health and Safety Committee, he has oversight of a number of RoSPA ‘Key Issue’ policy development projects.
These include:
- promoting a management approach to occupational road risk;
- strengthening the role of accident investigation in health and safety management;
- promoting senior leadership of occupational safety and health by board level directors, for example by setting corporate OS&H improvement targets and reporting on performance.
He is also involved in supporting local RoSPA affiliated Health and Safety Groups.
In 1990 he received the MBE for his services to occupational safety and health. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health and a Registered Safety Practitioner. In May 2000 he received the RoSPA Distinguished Service Award.