RoSPA Scotland 2003 : Programme
Strengthening the Team Approach - 10-11 September 2003 - Hilton Hotel, Glasgow
Day One 10th September - Morning Session
Stakeholders and strategies' - Afternoon Session
10.00 Registration & Coffee
10.30 Introduction from the Chair
John Arthur, Head of Environmental and Community Services, Inverclyde Council
10.40 Health at Work - The Perspective from Scotland's Health at Work
Dr Andrew Cubie
11.00 Questions to the Minister
11.10 Board level H&S leadership
Dave Calder, Head of Manufacturing, Ciba Specialty Chemicals
- Setting the vision
- Creating the right environment
- Involving everyone
- Setting priorities
- Measuring change
- Learning from experience
- Leading from the front
11.40 ‘Safety representatives – the hidden solution’
Ian Tasker, Assistant Secretary, STUC
- Safety reps and the accident statistics
- Safety as a partnership project
- Done to us or done by us?
- Reform of management systems
- A new culture
- Worker Safety Adviser Trial, currently being evaluated by York Consulting/TUC
12.10 Partnerships with key stakeholders
Ian Waldram, Co-ordinator, ‘Scottish ‘Revitalisers’ Forum’
- ‘Revitalising Health and Safety’
- Cascading improvement targets
- Who is accountable?
- Clear reporting
- Copying good practices
- Government as exemplar
12.40 Open Forum
Day One 10th September - Afternoon Session
'Towards a healthier working environment’
14.00 Working to tackle drink and drugs together
John Griffiths, Consultant, Workplace Health Promotion
- Alcohol, drugs and performance impairment
- Recreational use and abuse
- Establishing the need for action
- Key ingredients for a successful policy
- Getting workforce and line manager buy-in
- Keeping everyone on-board
- Monitoring and review
14.30 Putting more ‘H’ into H&S management
George Kirk, Director of Safety, ScottishPower
- The ‘business case ’for health as well as safety
- Establishing clear corporate health goals
- Measuring success
- Line managing health and work
15.00 Co-operate to rehabilitate
Dr Jane Wilford MRCGP,MFOM Consultant Occupational Physician for Salus, the NHS Occupational Health and Safety Services in
- Lanarkshire and Medical Director, Healthy Return Project
- Pilot project in Glasgow
- The importance of vocational rehabilitation
- Conceptualising the role of vocational rehabilitation
- Key elements in effective workplace rehabilitation
- Internal and external influences on workplace rehabilitation
- Case histories
15.30 Health and work: developing essential management skills
Alex Killick, Assistant Director, Partnership and Employment Practice, Scottish Executive
- How does health affect business?
- How can managers intervene to benefit their organisations?
- What skills do managers need?
- Where is there evidence of good management practice?
- Why is health management too important to leave to the ‘experts’?
16.00 Open Forum
16.30 Close
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