Prior to his retirement in 2020, Dr Paul Logan was a Senior Civil Servant in the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) which he had joined as a regulatory scientist. He subsequently trained as a specialist inspector with responsibility for inspection of high containment laboratories. During his time in HSE he chaired a number of industry/government committees, as well as representing the UK on a European Medicines Evaluation Agency working group on Gene Therapy, and a World Health Organisation group developing guidelines for the manufacture of pandemic flu vaccines. In his final post he was Director of the division in HSE with responsibility for regulation of major hazards industries, including chemical manufacturing, oil refineries, explosives manufacture and storage, and high containment laboratories.