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SCOTTISH workplace safety activist Louise Taggart has been named the most inspirational health and safety person of 2018 at this year’s Safety and Health Expo.
Ms Taggart worked as an employment lawyer until her brother Michael, an experienced electrician, died in a preventable electrical incident in 2005.
Her campaign to raise awareness and prevent similar incidents occurring in future led her to become a founder member of campaign group Families Against Corporate Killers (Fack) and a trustee of Scottish Hazards.
The title was awarded to Ms Taggart after a poll of Safety and Health Practitioner magazine readers.
Her husband Michael Taggart said: “Since she lost her brother, Louise has been able to evolve her grief and emotions from 2005 and channel them in a way that nowadays unquestionably helps others understand the difference and tragic consequences between good health and safety practice and bad.”
A Hazards campaign spokeswoman said: “Louise Taggart is one of the most moving speakers on the need for better health and safety, that it is never ‘pointless red tape’ or a ‘burden on business’ to follow the law.”