Retiral of Health and Safety Manager

The Highland Council’s Health and Safety Manager, Allen Williams, is retiring on Friday 26 March after completing more than 41 years service to local government, the last 35 of which have been spent in the Highlands.

Allen began his career in 1968 as a student environmental health officer with Wakefield County Borough Council in West Yorkshire. He qualified as an environmental health officer in 1972 and then joined Wakefield Metropolitan District Council two years later.

In 1975, Allen moved to the Highlands to work with Ross and Cromarty District Council as an assistant environmental health officer based in Dingwall.

Between then and 1996, he continued to work for the District Council as an area environmental health officer and a principal environmental health officer, dealing with community safety.

At the reorganisation of local government in 1996, he was appointed Health and Safety Manger with The Highland Council, a position he has held until his retirement.

New Health Safety and Wellbeing Manager is Gena Falconer, formerly Health and Safety Manager at Aberdeen City Council.   Gena, who has taken up her new post, will lead a new corporate team, which brings together health and safety staff from other Services and covers occupational health.