Safety & Health at Work Congress 2004 - 11th-13th May 2004 - Salamander Suite, NEC, Birmingham - Speaker Profiles
Programme : Day One - Tuesday 11th May
Chair: Nina Wrightson, Chairman, NOSHC
10.00 Registration & Coffee
10.30 Introduction from the chair
Nina Wrightson, Chairman, National Occupational Safety & Health Committee
10.40 UK strategy for better H&S at work
Jane Kennedy, Minister of State for Work at the Department for Work and Pensions
- Revitalising: progress so far
- Responding to the changing world of work
- The HSC's strategy to 2010
- Developing the UK 'H&S system'
- Focusing on health and rehabilitation
- Government as an exemplary employer
11.00 Corporate performance measurement and reporting - CASE STUDY
Michael Wright, Director, Greenstreet Berman Ltd
- H&S and corporate social responsibility
- What do we mean by performance?
- Why report and to whom?
- Research findings
- A new performance index
- Linking H&S with key stakeholder agendas
11.20 ELCI focuses on the facts
Tim Humphreys, Manager for Liability, Association of British Insurers
- Employers' Liability Compulsory Insurance: recent trends
- The DWP review: key findings
- Linking ELCI premia to performance
- Which indicators?
- Recent insurance sector initiatives
- Developing closer partnerships
11.40 How we are meeting challenging targets - CASE STUDY
Richard Claydon, International & UK Health and Safety Manager, RMC
- How we set evidence based targets
- Priorities and key performance indicators
- Getting management and workforce buy-in
- Avoiding distortions
- Linking with other business metrics
- What we have learned so far..
12.00 Open Forum
12.30 Lunch & Networking
13.30 Health and safety systems update
Professor Richard Booth, Aston University
- Management systems thinking moves on
- Revision of BS8800
- Old themes, new emphases
- Key points from consultation
- Communicating key concepts
- Assessing H&S management capability
13.50 Back to the Floor! - CASE STUDY
Dr Sara Lumley PhD MIOSH RSP, Consultant and Director of NEBOSH
- H&S as a strategic, board level issue
- Assumptions about board level leadership
- Front line director involvement
- Results from RoSPA's investigations
- Key findings
- Ways forward
14.10 Tougher penalties
David Bergman, Executive Director, Centre for Corporate Accountability
- H&S offences as crimes
- Developments in criminal justice
- Corporate killing and the Government's response
- Individual versus personal liability
- Time for innovative penalties?
- Towards zero tolerance?
14.30 Recent enforcement trends - CASE STUDY
Gerard Forlin, Barrister, 2-3 Gray's Inn Square
- HSE and Local Authority enforcement policy
- Recent high profile cases
- Are the courts getting tougher?
- How companies are responding
- Does punishment work?
- What does society expect?
15.00 Open Forum
15.30 Close
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