David Moses OBE
Created | Updated Aug 26, 2003
David Moses, Head of the Safety, Emergency and Risk Management Unit of Hertfordshire County Council, was awarded an OBE1 in the New Year Honours List 2002 for services to emergency planning.
He described his award as both a great personal honour and a reflection of what Hertfordshire's emergency planners had achieved. He said:
"To say I'm delighted is an under-estimate."
David joined the county council in the mid-eighties as Chief Emergency Planning Officer. Since then he and his team transformed what was then a civil defence function into a modern, responsive emergency planning service that has been put to the test and proved its worth on many occasions. The county has seen three major rail crashes in the past six years - at Watford, Hatfield and Potters Bar and Hertfordshire has been commended for its prompt and effective response.
In the light of Hertfordshire's experience of dealing with three other major incidents including a gas explosion in the early nineties, the county council hosted a workshop for other authorities. This resulted in the establishment of the National Steering Committee on Warning and Informing the Public which David chaired from 1996 to 2001.
1Order of the British Empire
