PHSC Regulatory News (PHSC)

31 March 2016

PHSC PLC

("PHSC" or the "Company")

Change of Non-Executive Director and Company Secretary

PHSC plc ("the Group"), a leading provider of health, safety, hygiene and environmental consultancy services and security solutions to the public and private sectors, announces a change to its Board of Directors with effect from 1 April 2016.

Mike Miller will leave the Board upon expiry of his current term of appointment on 31 March 2016. Mr Miller has served as a non-executive Director of the Company since its admission to trading on AIM in June 2005. Mr Miller has played a key role in overseeing the Company's recent acquisition programme and the Board would like to extend its grateful thanks for Mr Miller's dedication and insightful contribution over the past decade.

Lorraine Young is appointed as non-executive director with effect from 1 April 2016. Ms Young graduated from Leeds University with a BSc (Hons) degree in Chemical Sciences and set up her own company secretarial practice following a successful career in the City. She is immediate past President and a Fellow of ICSA The Governance Institute. Her previous roles include Company Secretary at Brambles Industries plc and Head of the Group Secretariat at Standard Chartered PLC. These posts involved key roles in acquisitions and disposals, bid defence, overseas board visits, directors' induction and continuing professional development, complex international share plans, and promoting clear communication to shareholders and employees. This skillset and wealth of experience will prove invaluable to the Board of the Company.

Upon appointment as a non-executive director, Lorraine Young will resign as Company Secretary, a post she currently holds in a personal capacity. Lorraine Young Company Secretaries Limited will be appointed as Company Secretary and the statutory functions will be carried out by other members of her team.

The following information is provided in accordance with paragraph (g) of Schedule 2 of the AIM Rules for Companies. 

Lorraine Elizabeth Young (aged 53) currently holds, and has held (including all appointments during the five years preceding the date of this announcement), the following directorships and partnerships, other than of the Company:

Lorraine Young does not currently hold any shares with voting rights in the Company, nor has she been granted any options over the share capital of the Company.

No further information relating to Lorraine Young is required to be disclosed pursuant to Schedule 2 paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules. 

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About PHSC

PHSC plc, through its trading subsidiaries Personnel Health & Safety Consultants Ltd, RSA Environmental Health Ltd, Adamson's Laboratory Services Ltd, QCS International Ltd, Inspection Services (UK) Ltd and Quality Leisure Management Ltd, provides a range of health, safety, hygiene, environmental and quality systems consultancy and training services to organisations across the UK. B to B Links Ltd and SG Systems (UK) Ltd offer innovative retail security solutions including tagging, labelling and CCTV.