'Sharpening the Focus on Performance' - 13-16 May 2002 - Gallery Suite 1, 2, 3 NEC - Birmingham

Programme : Day One - Monday 13th May

From Targets to Progress

A1 Congress Session 9.30 - 13.00
Chair: Mike Totterdell MBE, Chair of RoSPA's National Occupational Safety and Health Committee

9.30 Coffee

10.15 Introduction from the Chair

10.25 Opening Address
Dr Alan Whitehead MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions

10.40 Raising the status of health and safety at work
Speaker: Kate Timms, Deputy Director General (Policy), Health and Safety Executive

  • ‘Revitalising’ two years on
  • Establishing a performance approach to H&S
  • Engaging directors and workers
  • Establishing HSC/E’s priorities
  • The out-turn from HSC's 'top 350 challenge'
  • Government as 'exemplar' employer

11.10 H&S and business performance objectives
Speaker: Chris Pierce, Professional Standards Executive, Institute of Directors

  • H&S as part of corporate risk management
  • The ‘business case’ for health and safety
  • Company law reform
  • Setting corporate targets
  • Reporting to stakeholders
  • Director competencies

11.40 Workers: part of the solution, not just part of the problem
Speaker: Owen Tudor, Senior Policy Officer, Trades Union Congress

  • Doing H&S with workers not to them
  • Tapping knowledge, securing ‘buy-in'
  • Consultation: the key challenges
  • Safety reps deliver higher performance
  • Roving safety reps and union improvement notices
  • New TUC and union initiatives

12.10 Maximising the H&S performance dividend
Speaker: Phil Grace, Liability Risk Manager, Norwich Union Insurance

  • ‘Revitalising’: the challenge to the insurance sector
  • Insurers as key 'stakeholders'
  • Performance and premiums
  • Focusing on standards of management
  • Further options for incentivisation
  • Strengthening insurers' services to insureds

12.40 Open Forum

13.00 Close

A2 Best Practice Case Studies 13.30-15.30

13.30 Coffee

14.00 ‘Our approach to performance measurement and reporting'
Speaker: Clive Castell, Company Safety Manager, Scottish Power

14.30 ‘Proving the power of partnership at Hickson and Welch'
Speaker: Dr Ken Patterson, Process Safety Manager and Chris Emsen, Safety Adviser Transport and General Workers Union

15.00 Open Forum

15.30 Close

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