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