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Balfour Beatty Appoints New Director Of Safety And Environment
10 Oct 2001Balfour Beatty, the international engineering, construction and services group, announces today the appointment of Sally Brearley as Director of Safety and Environment.
She joins from Railway Safety, the company formed in December 2000 from Railtrack’s Safety and Standards Directorate, and will report to Chief Executive, Mike Welton. She will join Balfour Beatty in January 2002.
Before joining the railway industry, Ms Brearley was a founding partner of Risk Solutions, the management consultancy practice of AEA Technology. In this capacity, she had extensive consulting experience with blue chip clients in a range of sectors including petrochemicals, transport, construction and healthcare.
Commenting on the appointment, Mike Welton said today:
“I am very pleased to welcome Sally Brearley to this most important job at Balfour Beatty. She will have a key role in ensuring that we meet our stated objective of effecting a step change in our already improving performance in health, safety and the environment.
“In many of the relevant areas, we already compare favourably to sector norms. We aspire to be amongst the very best performing businesses on safety and environmental issues in industry at large.”
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Tim Sharp
Tel: +44 (0)20 7216 6884
