Vic Quayle

Managing Editor Vic Quayle trained as an environmental health officer after leaving school. Initially he worked in London before moving to Surrey and took a keen interest in the new Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 when it first came into effect.

He was soon authorised as an inspector and when required served improvement and prohibition notices and took prosecutions. He also started writing on health and safety subjects in the monthly journal of the Chartered Institute for Environmental Health and continued to do so every month for seven years.

He was now working as a Group Environmental Health Officer in a London Borough and had also written a guide to Health and Safety Enforcement published by Shaw and Sons Ltd.

Vic left local government in 1988 to set up one of the first electronic newsletters – Environmental Health Briefing – targeted mainly at local authorities. He later published Health and Safety Briefing in the same format.

In addition Vic became Managing Editor of the Barbour Index range of fifteen full text regulatory sector information systems and published huge indices for over 40,000 health and safety and other relevant authoritative and official publications. These included UK and European legislation and guidance, codes of practice, British Standards, and other publications from notable sources. 

Consultancy work with Technical Indexes saw Vic develop their first CD ROM and online full text information services for the health and safety industry. 

In recent years Vic has worked as an independent consultant dealing with immigration work, the Licensing Act 2003 and other regulatory matters affecting small businesses.