Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Appointment of dedicated full-time HSQE Director

Health & Safety, Quality and Environment have always been given high priority within the Bethell Group – but never more so than now with the appointment of a dedicated full-time HSQE director.

Ian Madden (48) was appointed to the position after an extensive nationwide search earlier this year.

He joined the Group in 2001 as health and safety manager and has nurtured the company’s continuous improvement in all four areas ever since.  During this time the department has grown from 4 to 17.

His first task will be to identify a structure for the whole HSQE function on a group-wide basis, consolidating, streamlining and expanding the roles of the team.

Said Ian: “As a Group we have always put a huge amount of effort and resource into working together to continually improve our health, safety, quality and environmental issues, making the company an even stronger, more focused, safer business.  A new phase of development is now underway and we all have our sights set upon further developing our HSQE record.”

Tim Kilroe, Group Chief Executive added:  “Ian Madden has achieved great things for the Group over the past 7 years and was the most impressive candidate from the scores of people who applied for the position around the country.  He has the Group’s full support as he continues to drive forward one of our key improvement areas for 2009.”