'Sharpening the Focus on Performance' - 13-16 May 2002 - Gallery Suite 1, 2, 3 NEC - Birmingham
Programme : Day Two - Tuesday 14th May
Revitalising Accident Prevention
B1 Congress Session 10.00 - 13.00
Chair: Nina Wrightson, RoSPA’s National Occupational Safety and Health Committee
10.00 Coffee
10.30 Introduction from the Chair
10.40 Understanding human factors
Speaker: Trevor Shaw, Principal Scientific Officer, Health and Safety Executive
- Understanding ‘error’
- Lessons from major disasters
- People, organisation, tasks
- Designing ‘error tolerant' systems
- Modifying behaviours
- Designing with people in mind
11.10 Accident investigation: strengths and weaknesses in current practice
Speaker: David Embrey, Managing Director, Human Reliability Associates
- Current investigation practices
- Scaling of the level of investigation and gathering the facts
- Use of structured methods
- Distortions in evidence gathering and analysis
- Simply focusing on the errors of individuals
- Searching for ‘root causes' and safety management system failures
- Communication of ‘lessons learned' and securing closure
11.40 Preventing falls from height: radical approaches
Speaker: Dr Roger Pope, Roger Pope Associates
- Falls from height, a cross-sectoral problem
- Why people fall
- Outcomes and costs
- What the law says
- Good risk assessment, the key
- Defence in depth
12.10 Risk on the road: part of mainstream OS&H
Speaker: Roger Bibbings MBE, Occupational Safety Adviser, RoSPA
- Establishing at-work road risk as a mainstream OS&H issue
- Issues arising from the recent HSE/DTLR report
- Developing the legal framework
- Implementing a risk management system approach
- From risk assessment to integrated control measures
- Monitoring and learning from experience
- Building a UK wide occupational road safety culture
12.40 Open Forum
13.00 Close
B2 Best Practice Case Studies 13.30-15.30
13.30 Coffee
14.00 The BT road safety programme
Speaker: John Lyons, Group Safety Adviser, British Telecommunications
14.30 Preventing slips, trips and falls
Speaker: TBA
15.00 Open Forum
15.30 Close
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