Registration and Refreshments

Welcome from Chair
Ben Tolhurst (Membership Manager, RoSPA)

Use Your Voice
Dr. Karen McDonnell (Occupational Health and Safety Policy Advisor, RoSPA)
 
Having a seat at the right table at the right time is a thread that has run through RoSPA’s policy work for decades. As a membership organisation with a truly global reach, having the right conversation at the right time about the prevention agenda, provides opportunities to influence and effect change. More lives, free from serious accidental injury, by the exchange of life enhancing knowledge and skills, through using our voice and echoing those of our members.

Member voice adds value to our work, providing us with new perspectives on our policy priorities and helping us to focus on the ‘whole person’ with a ‘whole life’, rather than simply the ‘part’ of the person that comes to work on a daily basis. It is increasingly important to understand the workforce from that perspective.

How have you created a free flow within your organisation to flush through areas of stagnation?
 
In this talk you will learn:

• The importance of being ‘at the table’
• Key themes we should be speaking about
• Creating unique perspectives
• Engaging for success
• What success looks like

Q&A Session with Dr. Karen McDonnell

Breakout Sessions

Delegates will break off into smaller groups, each with a different discussion topic. They will have set questions to answer and feedback. Each group will be led by a RoSPA host.
Please note that due to event timings, delegates will only be able to attend one of the below, but there will be summary feedback from each session.
 
Discussion Topics:

• Slips, Trips and Falls Prevention
• The Future of RoSPA Membership
• Workplace Wellbeing
• Members Choice

Feedback from Breakout Sessions

The session host will feedback discussion topics from each session to the wider audience.

Tea and Coffee Break

Keynote: Fatal Accident – Response Team Leadership
James Howard

James shares his experience of leading a major incident team, responding to a work-place accident that tragically claimed the lives of four colleagues in 2016.

He provides critical insight, from an organisational perspective, into the complex challenges and often competing stakeholder issues that the audience should consider when developing and reviewing their own critical event/crisis incident response frameworks.

In addition he discusses the mental health impacts he observed, in respect of post traumatic stress disorder [PTSD] and management burn-out of those directly and indirectly involved in this tragic incident.

Questions for James Howard

Close from Chair
Ben Tolhurst (Membership Manager, RoSPA)