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January 2024: Register of members' interests: Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC)

Updated 12 May 2025

Members of the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC) are required to declare any personal, political or business interests that could (or could be seen to) influence their judgement.

0.1바카라 사이트¯Dr Lesley Rushton 

Role: Chair, and independent scientist 

Other public appointments held at present: none 

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: 

  • Member, UK Committee on Carcinogenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment 
  • Member, HSE Science, Engineering and Environmental Assurance Committee (SEEAC) 

Personal and business interests: none 

Political activity: none

0.2바카라 사이트¯Professor Raymond Agius 

Role: Independent scientist and medical expert 

Other public appointments held at present: none 

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none 

Personal and business interests: 

  • Member of the Occupational Medicine Committee, British Medical Association 
  • Member of the Council, British Medical Association 
  • Currently involved in medico-legal civil cases related to COVID-19 

Political activity: none

0.3바카라 사이트¯Professor John Cherrie 

Role: Independent scientist 

Other public appointments held at present: 

  • Member, Workplace Health Expert Committee (Health and Safety Executive) 

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none 

Personal and business interests: 

  • Occasional medico-legal work as an expert witness or short-term consultancy work 

Political activity: none

0.4바카라 사이트¯Lesley Francois 

Role: Independent legal expert 

Other public appointments held at present: 

  • Magistrate, Ministry of Justice 
  • Justice of Peace, Family Panel 
  • Adoption Panel Member, Adopt London West, London Borough of Ealing 
  • Case examiner, Fitness to Practice Committee, Nursing and Midwifery Council 

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none 

Personal and business interests: none 

Political activity: none

0.5바카라 사이트¯Dr Sally Hemming 

Role: Representative of employers 

Other public appointments held at present: none 

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none 

Personal and business interests: 

  • Member, National Health and Wellbeing at Work Forum 
  • Occasional wellbeing work as an independent practitioner 
  • Involved with academic research at the University of Loughborough and University of Derby. 

Political activity: none

0.6바카라 사이트¯Professor Max Henderson 

Role: Independent scientist and medical expert 

Other public appointments held at present: 

  • Member, Occupational Health and Mental Health Expert Advisory Groups, Joint DH바카라 사이트¯Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)바카라 사이트¯Health and Work Unit 

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none 

Personal and business interests: none 

Political activity: none

0.7바카라 사이트¯Dr Richard Heron 

Role: Independent medical expert  

Other public appointments held at present: 

  • Member, NHSE/NHSI Health and Wellbeing Expert Advisory Group 

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: 

  • Member, NHS England Staff Health Advisory Board 

Personal and business interests: 

  • Co-chair for International Occupational Medicine Society Collaborative 
  • Senior Research Fellow at RAND Europe 
  • Part-time health and work consultancy including: 
  • Expert Advisor (Health and Work) to the World Economic Forum 
  • Advisor at Lloyds Register Foundation 

Political activity: none

0.8바카라 사이트¯Dr Jennifer Hoyle 

Role: Independent member with expertise in respiratory diseases 

Other public appointments held at present: none 

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none 

Personal and business interests: 

  • Clinical Lead for the Strategic Clinical Network for Respiratory and Long Covid in Greater Manchester 
  • Occasional expert witness in medico-legal cases on occupational lung disease 

Political activity: none

0.9바카라 사이트¯Dr Ian Lawson 

Role: Representative of employers 

Other public appointments held at present: none 

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none 

Personal and business interests: 

  • Chair, Society of Occupational Medicine Special Interest Group on Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome 

Political activity: none

0.10바카라 사이트¯Professor Damien McElvenny 

Role: Independent scientist 

Other public appointments held at present: none 

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none 

Personal and business interests: 

  • Involved in COVID related roles within his employment with the Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM) and the University of Manchester. 
  • Currently working on the Council바카라 사이트™s commissioned review of respiratory diseases at the IOM where he is employed as its principal scientist. 
  • Assistant Editor, Occupational Medicine Journal. 
  • Received funding and working on a study into mortality in footballers.  

Political activity: none

0.11바카라 사이트¯Steven Mitchell 

Role: Representative of employed earners 

Other public appointments held at present: none 

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none 

Personal and business interests: none 

Political activity: 

  • Member, Labour Party

0.12바카라 사이트¯Daniel Shears 

Role: Representative of employed earners 

Other public appointments held at present: none 

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none 

Personal and business interests: 

  • Chair, Joint HSE/Trade Unions Operational Gas Forum 
  • Vice Chair, Joint Union Asbestos in Schools Campaign 
  • Member, Health and Safety Executive Industry Advisory Committees including바카라 사이트¯ CONIAC and PABIAC 
  • Member, TUC Union Health and Safety Specialists Committee 

Political activity: 

  • Member, Labour Party

0.13바카라 사이트¯Dr Chris Stenton 

Role: Independent scientist and medical expert 

Other public appointments held at present: none 

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none 

Personal and business interests: 

  • Currently involved in medico-legal civil cases relating to COVID-19 and pneumoconiosis 

Political activity: none

Role: Independent scientist 

Other public appointments held at present: none 

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none 

Personal and business interests: 

  • Investigator on a study on occupations and long-covid 

Political activity: none

0.15바카라 사이트¯Dr Gareth Walters 

Role: Independent member with expertise in respiratory diseases 

Other public appointments held at present: none 

Previous public appointments held within the last 5 years: none 

Personal and business interests:  

  • Member of British Thoracic Society specialist advisory group on occupational and environmental lung diseases 

Political activity: none