RoSPA Scotland Safety and Health at Work Congress 2008
Leadership, Partnership, Progress
Glasgow Hilton Hotel, Glasgow, 24th September 2008
Programme
Wednesday 24th September - Strategy
Chair: Tom Mullarkey, Chief Executive, RoSPA
AM Session - Strengthening the team approach
10:00 Registration, exhibition and networking
10:30 Welcome by the Chair
10:35 Keynote Address
Danny Carrigan OBE
Chair, HSE Partnership on Health and Safety in Scotland
11:05 Delivering health and safety within a Scottish context
Dr Paul Stollard
HSE Director Scotland
- Targeting scarce resources
- Priority sectors
- Focusing on H&S management standards
- Working in partnership
11.35 Sharing the safety vision: how to involve the whole workforce
Ian Tasker
Assistant Secretary, STUC
- The evidence for workforceinvolvement
- Combating negative stereotypes
- Options for joint consultation
- Strategic versus operational focus
12:00 Raising standards and enhancing competitiveness
Roger Bibbings
Occupational Safety Adviser, RoSPA
- H&S – burden or benefit?
- Costs to the UK economy
- Building the business case
- Options for enhanced incentives
12:30 - 13:45 Lunch, exhibition and networking
PM Session - Sharpening the focus on performance
13:45 Developing a wider view of performance: a high performance case study
Sandra Stewart
Managing Director, Stewart Solutions Ltd, and
Phil Beaumont
Professor of Employment Relations, University of Glasgow
- Characteristics of the case study
- Measures of performance
- Dimensions of the business case
- Drivers of high performance
- Larger lessons from the case study
14:15 Assuring health and well-being
Dr Ewan McDonald
Head of the Healthy Working Lives Group, Director, Salus
- Health and work – the evidence
- Prevention, promotion and return to work
- Personal versus corporate responsibilities
- Getting access to advice and support
14:45 And what can happen if it all goes wrong?
Tom Stocker
Senior Associate, Pinsent Masons
- Investigation by the authorities
- Corporate homicide, myths and realities
- Health and safety offences
- Penalties
15:15 Close
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