Professor David Snashall

Biography

David Snashall is Professor of Occupational Medicine, Kings College London and Honorary Consultant and Clinical Director Occupational Health and Safety Services, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. He has also held posts as Chief Medical Adviser, Health and Safety Executive (1998 to 2003) and Chief Medical Adviser, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (1989 to 1998).

From1989 to1996 he was a member of the General Medical Council and from 2005 to 2008, President of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of London. From 2008 to 2011 he was an elected Council member of the British Medical Association and remains vice-chair of it’s Occupational Medicine Committee

He has worked as an occupational physician for 35 years in the UK and abroad, with particular interests in the health of construction workers, expatriates and those working in the health care sector. He trained in medicine at Edinburgh University, in occupational medicine at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and in medical law at Cardiff University.

He chairs the Health and Safety Executive’s Research Ethics Committee, is external examiner for the master’s course in occupational medicine at Cardiff University, is on the editorial board of the journal ‘ Occupational and environmental medicine’ and co-editor of the textbook ‘ABC of occupational and environmental medicine, now in its 3rd edition.