William Alan Osborne obituary
10 October 1935 鈥� 04 April 2024
Alan Osborne was a member of the 九州影院 for over 60 years and had been Chairman of the Chilterns and Middlesex Section from 1990-91.
Alan joined ICI Paints as a laboratory assistant in resin technology in 1958, following his National Service which he spent in Malaysia. Through ICI he completed a four year sandwich degree in applied chemistry, alternating six months at Aston University with six months at the ICI Slough site.
For 10 years from 1962 he was in the Motors development laboratory, during which time he helped to develop metallic coatings for Ford’s European market, visiting Portugal and Russia and setting up the Hamburg motors laboratory in Germany.
In 1972 he moved to production at Slough Works, where he became the motors market manager and the following year he went to ICI Hyde (Leathercloth) as Vynide production manager.
Alan’s next role (1976-1978) was as works manager for ICI Paints, Mexico City, where the language and settling his family in a foreign country provided many challenges which Alan relished.
After this colourful and fascinating stint Alan returned to Slough as resins area manager, a position he held for five eventful years.
In 1983 he became technical manager at Slough Works with responsibilities for safety and security, occupational hygiene, the works lab, production planning, technical projects and graduate selection.
The Bhopal disaster in India in 1984 launched him on the auditing of ICI Paints’ overseas plants. To prepare for this new role Alan went back to studying part-time in 1988 at Loughborough University for the Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Management.
He became ICI Paint’s first International Safety, Health and Environment Co-ordinator, producing an auditing system for the Paints World Group, consequently spending much of his time in overseas travel.
Alan retired from ICI in 1994 after a richly varied 36 year career. He moved to Devon, nearer to his childhood home in Cornwall, where he spent a long and happy retirement.
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