John Rimington (civil servant)

John David Rimington, CB (born 1935) is a retired British civil servant.

Born in 1935, Rimington attended Jesus College, Cambridge, before completing on National Service in the Army. He entered HM Civil Service in 1959 as an official in the Board of Trade.[1] From 1965 to 1969, he was a first secretary for economic matters in the British Embassy in New Delhi. After a year at the Department of Trade and Industry, he entered the Department of Employment in 1970. After another period abroad from 1974 (as a counsellor in the UK's permanent representation to the European Economic Community), he was transferred to the Manpower Services Commission in 1977.[2]

In 1981, Rimington became director of the safety policy division of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), and he was appointed Director-General of the HSE in 1984,[1] serving until he retired in 1995.[2] He was also a deputy secretary in the Department of Employment from 1984[2] and between 1992 and 1995 was Second Permanent Secretary in the department.[3] For his service, Rimington was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1987.[4] In retirement, he has held a visiting professorship at the University of Strathclyde and delivered the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents' Allan St John Holt Lecture in 2008.[1]

References
  1. "John Rimington", History of Occupational Safety and Health (Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents). Retrieved 3 February 2022.
  2. "Rimington, John David", Who Was Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, 2021). Retrieved 3 February 2022.
  3. Author notes, John Rimington, "Public Management and Administration: a Need for Evolution", The Political Quarterly, vol. 80, no. 4 (2009), pp. 562–568.
  4. The London Gazette, 30 December 1986 (supplement, issue 50764), p. 3.


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