The former chief executive of BCP Council has secured a new national board appointment.
Graham Farrant has been confirmed as a non executive director on the board of the Health and Safety Executive, taking over from Martin Esom, who is due to step down from the board in March 2026, with the regulator overseeing workplace health and safety across Britain.
The Health and Safety Executive is the national body responsible for preventing work related injury and ill health, carrying out regulatory work that ranges from influencing industry wide behaviour to targeted action on individual businesses, and operates as a non departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Work and Pensions.
Mr Farrant brings forty seven years of experience across local government and the wider public sector, including twenty five years as a chief executive, having previously led HM Land Registry, Thurrock Council and the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.
He also has private sector experience in leisure management consultancy and first qualified as an environmental health officer, later completing degrees in environmental health, environmental pollution science and executive coaching.
Mr Farrant was appointed chief executive of the newly formed Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council in 2019, and during his time in the role served as a director of the council’s in house regeneration company FuturePlaces, which remains subject to an internal investigation.
Confirming the appointment, HSE board chair Sarah Newton said she was “delighted” Mr Farrant would be joining the board and supporting delivery of its long term mission and strategy.
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