RoSPA Scotland 2002 : Programme
Sharpening the Focus on Performance - 11-12 September 2002 - Hilton Hotel, Glasgow
Day One 11th September - Morning Session
'Strategies' - Afternoon Session
9.30 Chair: Stewart Campbell, HSE Director
9.40 Opening address by George Foulkes MP, Minister of State for Scotland
10.00 Revitalising Health and Safety in Scotland: Progress So Far
Ian Waldram, Co-ordinator ‘Scottish Health and Safety Revitalisers’ Forum
- H&S targets in a Scottish context
- Priority sectors and risks
- The Forum’s here to help
- Members and activities
- What we aim to deliver
- Future challenges
10.25 Performance Measurement and Target Setting
John Ewins, Head of Strategies and Information Unit, Health and Safety Executive
- What gets measured gets managed!
- Limitations of traditional H&S performance measures
- Developing an ‘holistic’ approach
- Selecting appropriate KPIs
- Evidence based target setting
10.50 Coffee
11.15 The Insurers’Role
Douglas Dale, Liability Manager, Axa Insurance
- The importance of working together on health and safety
- Benefits from effective employee involvement
- Performance and premia
- Focusing on standards of management
- Further options for incentivisation
- Strengthening insurers’ services to ‘insureds’
11.40 Challenging Attitudes, Changing Corporate Cultures
Professor Matthias Beck, Division of Risk, Glasgow Caledonian University
- Understanding error in organisations
- ‘Command and control’ as a recipe for disaster
- Why organisations fail to learn
- Challenging attitudes, changing behaviours
- H&S culture measurement: fantasy or solution?
12.05 Open Forum
Day One 11th September - Afternoon Session
''Tactics'
13.30 Driving Safer Transport - At Workplace and Sites
Neil Wallace, Senior Engineer (Training/Health & Safety), The Highland Council
- The business case
- Minimise avoidable losses
- Effective management of road risks
- Improved vehicle specifications
- Driver competence
- Forward progress on reversing
13.55 Managing Asbestos in Buildings - Developing Cost Effective Strategies
Bill Macdonald, Head of Asbestos Policy Unit, Health and Safety Executive
- The continuing asbestos ill health tragedy
- Continuing exposure in premises
- The proposed duty to manage
- Developing a strategic approach
- Access to specialist services
- Avoiding panic, wasted resources and ineffective solutions
14.20 Falling Down On the Job
Dr Steve Thorpe, Human Factors Group, Health and Safety Laboratory
- The cost of falls, human and financial
- Common causes
- Testing regimes
- Simple interventions
- Developing a risk based approach
14.45 Coffee
15.05 Mental Wellbeing in the Workplace
Miriam O’Connor, Workplace Programme Manager, Health Education Board Scotland & Ronny Lardner, Director, The Keil Centre
- Who’s stressed and why
- The cost of getting it wrong
- Developing stress management strategies that work
- Accessible tools and guidance
- The ‘Work Positive’ risk management tool
15.30 Open Forum
15.55 Congress Closes
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