RoSPA Scotland 2002 : Programme

Sharpening the Focus on Performance - 11-12 September 2002 - Hilton Hotel, Glasgow

Day Two 12th September
'Success Stories'

9.30 Chair: John Howard, Director of Safety Policy, RoSPA

9.40 Good Driving is Good Business
Paul Richardson, Road Safety Manager, Lothian and Borders police

  • Britain’s biggest occupational safety issue
  • Recent policy developments
  • Managing occupational road risk as part of H&S
  • Learning from experience
  • Ways forward

10.15 Team Based Learning From Accidents
Norman Stevenson, Group HS&E Manager, Motherwell Bridge Holdings Ltd

  • Why we fail to learn from safety failures
  • Accidents as ‘windows on reality’
  • Developing a team approach
  • Tackling the ‘blame culture’
  • A case study

10.40 Coffee

11.00 How We Reduced Days Lost Due to Sickness Absence
Angela Dunlop, Occupational Health Adviser, Scottish Equitable

  • Holistic approach to attendance management
  • Targeting sickness absence and rehabilitation
  • Developing joined up working
  • Focusing on the individual
  • Demonstrating costs and benefits

11.25 Partnerships Against Pain
Doug Russell, National H&S Officer, Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers

  • Musculo-skeletal disorders: bad for people, bad for business
  • Benefits from employee involvement
  • Six principles of H&S partnership
  • What trades unions bring to the process
  • Overcoming barriers to success
  • Examples of partnership solutions that work

11.50 Scotland’s Health at Work Awards
Andrew Cubie, Chair of ‘Scotland’s Health at Work’

12.05 Open Forum

12.30 Lunch

N.B. All sessions booked include lunch and refreshments

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