PROGRAMME
08:30
Registration and Coffee in the Networking Surgery
09:25
Chair's Opening Address
Professor David Ball (confirmed)
Professor of Risk Management, Co-Director for Decision Analysis and Risk Management, Middlesex University
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Professor David Ball (confirmed)
Professor of Risk Management, Co-Director for Decision Analysis and Risk Management, Middlesex University
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09:30
Dr John Watt (confirmed)
Senior Lecturer in Risk Management and Decision Analysis, Middlesex University
“Restoring balance: Safety management and public spaces”
The Löfstedt recommendations promoted a risk and evidence-based approach to health and safety legislation, thereby ensuring action is proportionate, effective and sensible. Much in the same way as interpretation of regulations has resulted in over compliance in many businesses, it can be argued that these same issues have branched out of high-risk industries to encompass more and more of public life.
What is good practice for safety and risk management and how might it differ between the factory environment and public space beyond the factory fence? Is it time to factor in a risk benefit assessment to aid decision-making around safety management and public space?
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Senior Lecturer in Risk Management and Decision Analysis, Middlesex University
“Restoring balance: Safety management and public spaces”
The Löfstedt recommendations promoted a risk and evidence-based approach to health and safety legislation, thereby ensuring action is proportionate, effective and sensible. Much in the same way as interpretation of regulations has resulted in over compliance in many businesses, it can be argued that these same issues have branched out of high-risk industries to encompass more and more of public life.
What is good practice for safety and risk management and how might it differ between the factory environment and public space beyond the factory fence? Is it time to factor in a risk benefit assessment to aid decision-making around safety management and public space?
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09:50
Keynote Address
Professor Ragnar Löfstedt (confirmed)
Director of the King's Centre for Risk Management, King's College, London
“Health and safety regulation-what do we need to do now?”
Professor Löfstedt has been asked to review the government's progress in implementing the recommendations of his report, Reclaiming health and safety for all. The report set out a number of risk and evidence-based recommendations to reduce regulatory requirements for workplaces, enabling them to reclaim ownership of the management of health and safety.
A review of progress on the report one year one was published in January 2013, making this an ideal time to hear what impact the recommendations have had so far and what more can still be done.
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Professor Ragnar Löfstedt (confirmed)
Director of the King's Centre for Risk Management, King's College, London
“Health and safety regulation-what do we need to do now?”
Professor Löfstedt has been asked to review the government's progress in implementing the recommendations of his report, Reclaiming health and safety for all. The report set out a number of risk and evidence-based recommendations to reduce regulatory requirements for workplaces, enabling them to reclaim ownership of the management of health and safety.
A review of progress on the report one year one was published in January 2013, making this an ideal time to hear what impact the recommendations have had so far and what more can still be done.
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10:10
Alison Fryatt (confirmed)
Team Leader, Health and Safety Stewardship Team, Department for Work and Pensions
“Curbing the burden of red tape – simplifying health and safety compliance and liability”
From April 2013 the government is looking to introduce binding new rules on both the HSE and local authorities that will exempt thousands of businesses and workplaces from the burden of regular health and safety inspections. Draft legislation is also aiming to ensure that only employers that have been shown to have acted negligently will be liable for civil damages in health and safety cases. How will a common sense approach work in practice and what will workplaces gain from implementing change?
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Team Leader, Health and Safety Stewardship Team, Department for Work and Pensions
“Curbing the burden of red tape – simplifying health and safety compliance and liability”
From April 2013 the government is looking to introduce binding new rules on both the HSE and local authorities that will exempt thousands of businesses and workplaces from the burden of regular health and safety inspections. Draft legislation is also aiming to ensure that only employers that have been shown to have acted negligently will be liable for civil damages in health and safety cases. How will a common sense approach work in practice and what will workplaces gain from implementing change?
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10:30
Thomas Martin (confirmed)
Joint Managing Director, Arco
“A Vision for the Future: The time has come to set out a positive vision of the future of health and safety, and the part it has to play in business today”
Economic times are difficult, budgets continue to be cut and a Comprehensive Spending Review is looming. Against this backdrop, rhetoric on health and safety from government and business alike has been too much about cutting red tape and not about preventing injury. Good health and safety makes business sense and saves businesses money in less lost working days.
A positive vision for health and safety in the future is critical to the government as it is government that makes the difference in setting and policing the regulatory framework.
How can we get involved and make a difference to this important agenda? And what should government be doing in this incredibly challenging environment?
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Joint Managing Director, Arco
“A Vision for the Future: The time has come to set out a positive vision of the future of health and safety, and the part it has to play in business today”
Economic times are difficult, budgets continue to be cut and a Comprehensive Spending Review is looming. Against this backdrop, rhetoric on health and safety from government and business alike has been too much about cutting red tape and not about preventing injury. Good health and safety makes business sense and saves businesses money in less lost working days.
A positive vision for health and safety in the future is critical to the government as it is government that makes the difference in setting and policing the regulatory framework.
How can we get involved and make a difference to this important agenda? And what should government be doing in this incredibly challenging environment?
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10:45 - 10:55
11:00
Masterclass Session 1
11:45
Coffee in the Networking Surgery
12:30
Masterclass Session 2
13:15
Lunch in the Networking Surgery
14:15
Guest Speaker
Neal Stone (confirmed)
Director of Policy and Communications, British Safety Council
“Health and safety: a burden or a benefit?”
Health and safety is too often portrayed as an obstacle to economic growth and job creation. Evidence of the social and financial benefits that proportionate and sensible health and safety management bring to society is ignored by critics. Will the health and safety reforms currently being implemented assist business by significantly reducing burdens or result in no change?
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Neal Stone (confirmed)
Director of Policy and Communications, British Safety Council
“Health and safety: a burden or a benefit?”
Health and safety is too often portrayed as an obstacle to economic growth and job creation. Evidence of the social and financial benefits that proportionate and sensible health and safety management bring to society is ignored by critics. Will the health and safety reforms currently being implemented assist business by significantly reducing burdens or result in no change?
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14:30
Joe Mulligan (confirmed)
Head of First Aid Education, British Red Cross
“The wider benefits of first aid training”
Joe Mulligan will talk about the wider benefits of first aid training to the employer and the employee and the implications for workplace first aid post the Löfstedt review. In addition, he will explore the challenges facing first aid training providers in customising first aid education related to the identified risks.
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Head of First Aid Education, British Red Cross
“The wider benefits of first aid training”
Joe Mulligan will talk about the wider benefits of first aid training to the employer and the employee and the implications for workplace first aid post the Löfstedt review. In addition, he will explore the challenges facing first aid training providers in customising first aid education related to the identified risks.
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14:45
Simon Lowe (confirmed)
Managing Director, Handsam Ltd
“Credible online training: reality or pipedream?”
Training is one of the most challenging aspects of public sector management today. How does one find the time in the schedule, create the desire amongst staff and, more and more importantly, fund quality, benchmarked training across a wide range of topics for huge quantities of staff, whilst retaining control?
Handsam Ltd has come up with a unique and innovative option. Working with public sector organisations in the education sector such as the Academies Enterprise Trust, E-ACT and Cardiff Council, Handsam has produced a cloud-based e-training system that not only answers all the above questions, but can be tailored to suit the demands of the sector, or even the individual organisation.
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Managing Director, Handsam Ltd
“Credible online training: reality or pipedream?”
Training is one of the most challenging aspects of public sector management today. How does one find the time in the schedule, create the desire amongst staff and, more and more importantly, fund quality, benchmarked training across a wide range of topics for huge quantities of staff, whilst retaining control?
Handsam Ltd has come up with a unique and innovative option. Working with public sector organisations in the education sector such as the Academies Enterprise Trust, E-ACT and Cardiff Council, Handsam has produced a cloud-based e-training system that not only answers all the above questions, but can be tailored to suit the demands of the sector, or even the individual organisation.
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15:00
Coffee in the Networking Surgery
15:30
Chair's Afternoon Address
“Tales from the witness box”
Regarding H&S reform, the proof of the pudding may be determined ultimately by the courts. The reforms have spoken of the desirability of proportionality, of risk-based (not hazard-based) controls, and of less paperwork. So how are we doing?
And are there any other spectres in the crypt?
“Tales from the witness box”
Regarding H&S reform, the proof of the pudding may be determined ultimately by the courts. The reforms have spoken of the desirability of proportionality, of risk-based (not hazard-based) controls, and of less paperwork. So how are we doing?
And are there any other spectres in the crypt?
15:45
Roger Bibbings (confirmed)
Occupational Safety Advisor, The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents
“Will a leaner and fitter health and safety regime actually deliver improved H&S outcomes?”
In tougher times, how does the health and safety community begin to generate a new sense of ambition to save lives, reduce injuries, incidents and work related health damage and harness workplace H&S culture to build a safer society?
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Occupational Safety Advisor, The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents
“Will a leaner and fitter health and safety regime actually deliver improved H&S outcomes?”
In tougher times, how does the health and safety community begin to generate a new sense of ambition to save lives, reduce injuries, incidents and work related health damage and harness workplace H&S culture to build a safer society?
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16:00
Guest Speaker
Subash Ludhra (confirmed)
Immediate Past President, Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH)
“Health and wellbeing: understanding the importance of occupational health and working safely”
HSE statistics for 2010/11 show that 26.4 million days were lost, with work related stress being the biggest single cause. Occupational health should be a key consideration, to not only prevent serious injury and illness, but also to help improve productivity and absence management.
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Subash Ludhra (confirmed)
Immediate Past President, Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH)
“Health and wellbeing: understanding the importance of occupational health and working safely”
HSE statistics for 2010/11 show that 26.4 million days were lost, with work related stress being the biggest single cause. Occupational health should be a key consideration, to not only prevent serious injury and illness, but also to help improve productivity and absence management.
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16:15
Panel Debate
“Health and safety gone mad: debunking the myth”
Health and safety all too often gets a bad press. We've seen stories on postmen not delivering letters because of uneven plaving stones, the banning of conkers in the school playing fields and the closure of 'Murray Mount' at Wimbledon due to damp grass. The perception of a risk-adverse, compensation culture undermines the credibility of regulation and guidance.
So what does good health and safety practice actually look like? How can organisations ensure a risk and evidence-based approach to safety management?
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“Health and safety gone mad: debunking the myth”
Health and safety all too often gets a bad press. We've seen stories on postmen not delivering letters because of uneven plaving stones, the banning of conkers in the school playing fields and the closure of 'Murray Mount' at Wimbledon due to damp grass. The perception of a risk-adverse, compensation culture undermines the credibility of regulation and guidance.
So what does good health and safety practice actually look like? How can organisations ensure a risk and evidence-based approach to safety management?
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Subash Ludhra (confirmed)
Immediate Past President, IOSH
Immediate Past President, IOSH
Professor David Ball (confirmed)
Professor of Risk Management, Co-Director for Decision Analysis and Risk Management, Middlesex University
Professor of Risk Management, Co-Director for Decision Analysis and Risk Management, Middlesex University
Roger Bibbings (confirmed)
Occupational Safety Advisor, The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents
Occupational Safety Advisor, The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents
Joe Mulligan (confirmed)
Head of First Aid Education, British Red Cross
Head of First Aid Education, British Red Cross
16:55
Chair's Closing Remarks
17:00
Conference Close
