Safety & Health at Work Congress 2003 - 19th-22nd May 2003 - Halls 10, 11, 12, NEC, Birmingham

Programme : Day One - Monday 19th May

A1 ‘Stakeholders and strategies’

10.00 Registration & Coffee

10.30 Introduction from the chair
Nina Wrightson, Chair, RoSPA’s National Occupational Safety & Health Committee

10.40 Towards a strategy for OS&H excellence
Rt Hon Nick Brown MP, Minister of State for Work

11.00 Questions to the Minister

11.10 What is real team leadership?
George Cox, Director General, Institute of Directors

  • Setting the vision
  • Creating the right environment
  • Selecting – and ejecting
  • Setting priorities
  • Balancing shared and personal objectives
  • Utilising diverse skills
  • Leading from the front

11.40 ‘The Safety Rep – the hidden solution’
John Edmonds, General Secretary, GMB

  • 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

12.10 Building partnerships with key stakeholders
Kate Timms, Deputy Director General, Health and Safety Executive

  • ‘Revitalising Health and Safety’
  • Setting and delivering targets
  • Getting priorities right
  • Involving the key players
  • Working with and through intermediaries
  • Strengthening the role of insurance
  • Government as H&S exemplar

12.40 Open Forum

13.00 Close

A2 Case Studies

13.30 Coffee & Registration

14.00 Keeping the team out of jail: lessons from recent cases
Gerard Forlin, Barrister, 2-3 Grays Inn Square

14.30 Strengthening the H&S Competence of Senior Management Teams
Chris Lloyd, Managing Director, CAS Ltd

15.00 Open Forum

15.30 Close

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