RoSPA Scotland 2003 : Programme

Strengthening the Team Approach - 10-11 September 2003 - Hilton Hotel, Glasgow

Day Two - 11th September
‘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 Determining priorities, setting targets
Colin Chambers, Head of Responsible Care Development and Nick Berentzen, Head of Occupational Safety, Chemical Industries Association

  • Consulting all stakeholders
  • Understanding recent accident experience
  • Immediate and underlying causes
  • Targeting interventions
  • Agreeing the right performance indicators
  • Reviewing progress

11.10 Behavioural safety programmes: myth or magic?
Dr Debbie Lucas, Principal Psychologist, HSE

  • Key stages in performance improvement
  • Lessons from major hazards industries
  • Understanding human failures
  • Behavioural safety assumptions
  • Involving the workforce
  • Behavioural safety in context

11.40 Learning from ‘incident scenarios’
Mike Reed, Director, Trant Construction Ltd

  • Incident scenario challenges
  • Testing immediate response
  • Proving the incident could not have happened
  • Incident scenarios as a complement to audit
  • Experience gained so far
  • Lessons for others

12.10 Safely skilling the Scottish workforce
Tim O’Brien, Deputy Chief Executive, Education, EmpNTO

  • 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

12.40 Open Forum

13.00 Close

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