Health & Safety – the Science bit

Wednesday, 6th February 2012 – Paul Davies, one of our own members, gave us a great talk about The Science of Health & Safety. With references to Michael Faraday and Humphrey Davy’s invention of the miners’ safety lamp, and brought up to recent times with the scientific investigation into the King’s Cross tube fire in 1987, Paul illustrated the role of science in making the world a safer place, and raised the notion of ‘Tolerability of Risk’. Paul’s experience as former Chief Scientist and Head of the Hazardous Installations Directorate at HSE was evident in all he said.