Dr. Frank Fox
Head of Occupational Health, Anglo American
After qualifying at the University of Rhodesia Dr. Frank Fox worked in the government health services in rural hospitals for four years. He then moved to Botswana where he spent 13 years in clinical practice on a copper-nickel mine. During his time in Botswana, he developed an interest in occupational and environmental medicine, qualifying in occupational health at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1985. Dr. Fox went on to achieve a specialist qualification in occupational medicine from the Faculty of Occupational Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians in London.
During his time in the nickel industry Dr. Fox served as vice-chairman of the scientific advisory committee of the Nickel Producers Environmental Research Association (NiPERA).
In 1995 he moved to South Africa taking up a position with an international Forest products company and worked in forestry, sawmilling and the paper industry. He went on to become the Group Medical Consultant with exposure to occupational health care at operations in Europe, Eastern Europe, Russia and the UK.
He currently heads up occupational health for Anglo American plc, a global mining company with its main operations in Brazil, Chile, South Africa and Australia.
Dr Fox is the Chairman of the Health and Safety task force of the International Commission on Metals and Mining (ICMM) where, with his background in rural health care and occupational medicine he has been instrumental in the production of a number of best practice guidelines, on various subjects (notably Health Impact Assessment) for the membership of ICMM.
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