Alison is a Chartered Occupational Hygienist and former President of the British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS). Alison has enjoyed a varied career as an Occupational Hygiene specialist and senior leader within the energy and petrochemical industries and since 2017 has been working as a consultant. She has worked at both local and corporate levels (nationally and internationally) setting, influencing and implementing Occupational Hygiene standards and guidance as part of multi-disciplinary teams. She has held leadership roles managing complex cross business projects, chairing working groups and leading networks both internally and externally as part of cross industry activities to identify priorities, develop standards/guidance and support/influence legislative developments.

She is passionate about promoting prevention over cure in the battle to successfully manage workplace health risks and the importance of professional competence, drawing on the right expertise at the right time to ensure workplace health risks are recognised, assessed, and successfully managed. Alison represents BOHS on a variety of external fora including the Council for Work and Health and the Faculty of Occupational Health Nursing (FOHN).