After almost half a century working in the quarrying and mineral products industries, the Institute of Quarrying (IQ) has recognised the outstanding contribution of Roy Bush FIQ, Health & Safety Director for the British Aggregates Association (BAA), with the award of an Honorary Fellowship.
Roy has served on the Institute of Quarrying (IQ) councils and the Minerals Products Qualifications Council (MPQC). He represents the BAA at the Extractives Industry Strategic Health and Safety Forum. He plays an instrumental role within QNJAC, sitting on all the working groups and the main board.
Viv Russell FIQ is President of the Institute of Quarrying: “It was a particularly proud moment for me to present Roy with his Honorary Fellowship, recognising all his hard work for IQ and the Quarries National Joint Advisory Committee (QNJAC). Roy has always taken a pragmatic approach towards health and safety by becoming a finder of solutions rather than a creator of problems. I would like to personally thank Roy for his hard work and contributions over the years.”
On receiving the Honorary Fellowship, Roy said: “After my initial surprise and shock of being presented with the award, which I genuinely had no idea I was about to receive, I was very humbled and grateful for the privilege. I would like to thank everyone who was involved for their support and kind words. Moments like these remind me what an amazing industry this is to be part of.”
Starting his quarrying career in 1974, Roy worked for Mixconcrete Aggregates as a laboratory technician before taking on a commercial role. Following the take-over in 1982 of Mixconcrete by Pioneer Aggregates UK Ltd, Roy became an Operations Manager at one of the company’s sand and gravel quarries before spending four years at a quarry specialising in igneous rock and shale.
Roy later became an Area Manager for Pioneer Aggregates, overseeing two large limestone quarries in north Yorkshire and north Wales, a development site in the northeast, and an ex-quarry landfill site in the Midlands.
With his extensive operational experience, Roy spent 24 years working as an HM Specialist Inspector for the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). He said: “For many years, I was responsible for carrying out quarry inspections for a range of different sites. In the later years, I was dealing with HSE policy and liaison with the quarrying industry, sitting on a number of specialist industry committees and providing the secretariat for the Quarries National Joint Advisory Committee (QNJAC). I was responsible for providing the discussion papers that led to most of the guidance in QNJAC’s legislation section.”
Alongside Roy’s current role for the BAA, he is also a joint director for MinExp Ltd and MinTrain Ltd.
Honorary Fellowships are determined by the IQ Board of Trustees in recognition of distinguished service in the quarrying and mineral products industry.
