Safety & Health at Work Congress 2003
Strengthening the Team Approach - 19-22 May 2003 - Halls 10, 11, 12, NEC, Birmingham
Programme
Day 1 - Monday 19th May - ‘Stakeholders and strategies’
Day 2 - Tuesday 20th May - ‘Building a common commitment to safety’
Day 3 - Wednesday 21st May - ‘Securing health together’
Day 4 - Thursday 22nd May - ‘Learning and sharing’
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
Programme : Day Two - Tuesday 20th May
B1 ‘Building a common commitment to safety’
10.00 Registration & Coffee
10.30 Introduction from the chair
Eleanor Lawson, President, Institution of Occupational Safety and Health
10.40 Team-based target setting
Roger Bibbings, Occupational Safety Adviser, RoSPA
- Consulting all stakeholders
- A wider view of performance
- Understanding ‘where we are now’
- Agreeing the right performance indicators
- Gathering the evidence
- Reporting on progress
11.10 From open reporting to whistleblowing
Kirsten Trott, Legal Advisor, Public Concern at Work
- Why whistleblowing matters
- A classic dilemma
- A practical response
- A legislative response
- Making the law work for you
- Where now?
11.40 Team-based learning from accidents
David Shillito, Consultant, David Shillito Associates
- Accidents as ‘windows on reality’;
- Learning from accidents is difficult, expensive and unwelcome
- Accident prevention is safety and must be a ‘team’ activity
- Teams have better, longer memories
- Teams are better at recognising organisational error
- Accident scenarios must become a key part of routine risk assessment
- Accident prevention must involve learning from the sharp end.
12.10 Knowing your business - Changing cultures and behaviours at all levels to that end
John Hatto, Consultant, J & W Hatto Services Ltd
- Knowledge management and an integrated approach to risk
- Building a successful team-based approach to include SH&E
- Incentives – myth or magic?
- Management behaviours
- Mindsets and reinforcement
12.40 Open Forum
13.00 Close
B2 Case Studies
13.30 Coffee & Registration
14.00 Contracting safely with Esso
Michael May, Project Manager, Southern Electric Contracting
14.30 Tackling risk on the road together
Martin King, Quality, Safety & Environment Manager, Coca Cola Enterprises Ltd
15.00 Open Forum
15.30 Close
Programme : Day Three - Wednesday 21st May
C1 ‘Securing health together’
10.00 Registration & Coffee
10.30 Introduction from the chair
Dr Nerys Williams, Head of the Employment Medical Advisory Service, Health and Safety Executive
10.40 Health and Work: developing essential management skills
Lawrence Waterman, Chairman, Sypol Ltd
- How does health affect business?
- How can managers intervene to benefit their organisations?
- What skill do managers need?
- Where is there evidence of good management practice?
- Why is health management too important to leave to the ‘experts’?
11.10 Managing health in the business
Sue Guest, UK Health & Safety Manager, Powergen
- The ‘business case’ for health as well as safety
- Establishing clear corporate health goals
- Line managing health and work
- Putting more 'H' into H&S
11.40 Co-operate to rehabilitate
Dr Pauline Dibben, Lecturer, Human Resource Management, Middlesex University
- The importance of vocational rehabilitation
- Conceptualising the role of vocational rehabilitation
- Key elements in effective workplace rehabilitation
- Internal and external influences on workplace rehabilitation
12.10 Working together to tackle drink and drugs
Andy Slovak, Chief Medical Officer, BNFL
- Alcohol, drugs and performance impairment
- Recreational use and abuse
- Establishing the need for action
- Key ingredients for a successful policy
- Getting workforce and line manager buy-in
- Keeping everyone on-board
- Monitoring and review
12.40 Open Forum
13.00 Close
C2 Case Studies
13.30 Coffee & Registration
14.00 Ask the workforce: body mapping: a case study
Hugh Robertson, Head of Bargaining Support and Health & Safety, UNISON
14.30 Getting OH services and advice to smaller firms
Dr Kit Harling, Director, NHS Plus
15.00 Open Forum
15.30 Close
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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