Safety & Health at Work Congress 2003 - 19th-22nd May 2003 - Halls 10, 11, 12, NEC, Birmingham
Programme : Day Four - Thursday 22nd May
D1 ‘Learning and sharing’
10.00 Registration & Coffee
10.30 Introduction from the chair
Paul Reeve, Health & Safety Advisor, The Electrical Contractors’ Association
10.40 Going public on corporate H&S performance
Lieu Nguyen, Project Manager Occupational Safety, RoSPA
- The challenge to report annually on H&S policies, performance and targets
- The presence and quality of H&S information on companies’ websites
- A case for transparent and accessible reporting
- The perceived barriers
- Results on current trends in web reporting
- Guidance on web reporting
11.10 Development of electronic H&S business tools
Pauline Nash, HSE Small Firms Policy Adviser, Health & Safety Executive and a Representative from the IUKE Health & Safety Visit Programme
- CONNECT for better business – to help businesses learn from the experience of others through ‘real life’ documentary case studies
- Benchmark Index – a benchmarking resource for SME’s
- Hazard Identifier – to identify key health and safety hazards in specific sectors
- IUKE Programme – learning from pioneers, an organised visit programme
11.40 Safely skilling the UK workforce
Speaker tbc, Health and Safety Executive
- Harms and human factors
- The duty to assess and assure competence
- Safety education from classroom to boardroom
- Building H&S into vocational education
- Recent HSE initiatives
- Developing the UK H&S training system
12.10 Building safety and risk concepts into education: towards a coherent strategy
Juliet Brown, Head of Safety Education, RoSPA
- The need for a framework for risk education
- Developing a generic approach
- Building an incremental framework taking into account children’s conceptual development
- Links to the National Curriculum
- Examples of Good Practice
12.40 Open Forum
13.00 Close
D2 Case Studies
13.30 Coffee & Registration
14.00 Managing OS&H in the NHS and PFI
Lynne Ainge, Lead Health and Safety Advisor, Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust
14.30 Sharing H&S experiences in a major multinational company
Rob McAuley, Global Safety Manager, AstraZeneca
15.00 Open Forum
15.30 Close
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