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The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) last week published its research report for 1977—the most comprehensive yet to be published on the executive's research activities. Alastair Hay here looks at the research labs run by the HSE.
On 1 July this year, Dr Ken Duncan became the third member of the triumvirate that runs the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Duncan will be the principal person at HSE concerned with matters of biomedical research. He will combine his new work with his job of the past four years as Director of Medical Services on the staff of the HSE secretariat. Here he talks to ALASTAIR HAY.