'Sharpening the Focus on Performance' - 13-16 May 2002 - Gallery Suite 1, 2, 3 NEC - Birmingham
Programme : Day Four - Thursday 16th May
Delivering Competent Advice
D1 Congress Session 10.00 - 13.00
Chair: Paul Faupel, President of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health
10.00 Coffee
10.30 Introduction from the chair
10.40 What the law requires
Speaker: David Lewis, Weightman's, Solicitors
- The requirement for competent advice
- Options for employers
- Enforcement?
- The legal duties of advisers
- Advisers’liabilities: the current position
- Options for promoting compliance
11.10 Developing and maintaining professional competence
Speaker: Hazel Harvey, Head of Professional Affairs, Institution of Occupational Safety and Health
- Health and safety advice as a 'profession'
- Routes to professional status
- Vocational development of skills and knowledge
- Why CPD is so important
- Enhancing career paths and prospects
- Towards professional excellence
11.40 OS&H and corporate risk management
Speaker: Andy Shaw, bmi British Midland
- Developments in corporate risk management
- OS&H as a risk based business discipline
- Common RM concepts,skills and tools
- Working with other RM disciplines
- What OS&H can ‘bring to the party'
- OS&H and the corporate social responsibility/sustainability agenda
12.10 Getting the right advice to small firms
Speaker: Dr Mel Draper, Head of Policy Division, Health and Safety Executive
- Small is not necessarily safe
- Reviewing HSE ‘Small Firms Initiatives'
- SMEs are not just small big firms
- Engaging new 'intermediaries'
- Strengthening OS&H in the supply chain
- Making OS&H part of the business development infrastructure
- The ‘good neighbour’ role of 'high performers'
12.40 Open Forum
13.00 Close
D2 Best Practice Case Studies 13.30-15.30
13.30 Coffee
14.00 Road to Safety: a new approach to help small firms
Speaker: Joe Laverick, Environmental and Safety Adviser, Business Link for Devon and Cornwall
14.30 Restructuring the corporate H&S function
Speaker: Dr Deborah Allen, Director, Safety, Health and Environment, BAE Systems
15.00 Open Forum
15.30 Close
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