Safety & Health at Work Congress 2004 - 11th-13th May 2004 - Salamander Suite, NEC, Birmingham
Speaker Profiles - in alphabetical order
PAUL BEAUMONT
Paul Beaumont’s background is as a chartered chemist and occupational hygienist. Paul worked in the chemical and steel industries before becoming a Factory Inspector in 1974. He later became HM Senior Chemical Inspector and later Principal Occupational Hygiene Inspector. In 1992 Paul became Head of the HSE North West Specialist Group which he left two years ago to manage the HSE Physical Agents Unit. Paul became Programme Manager responsible for revising and expanding the Slips and Trips Priority Programme in March 2003.
NIGEL J. BRACE
Nigel has 30 years experience as a safety practitioner with the HSE, British Nuclear Fuels plc and QSM. He provides consultancy advice and sampling and training services in a wide range of employment sectors in the UK and overseas.
DES BROWNE MP
Des Browne MP is Minister of State for Work at the Department for Work and Pensions. Previously he was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at The Northern Ireland Office (appointed June 2001).
Mr Browne was born on 22 March 1952 and studied at Glasgow University where he was awarded an LLB. He is married and has two sons.
Before entering Parliament he was a lawyer. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1976 and was subsequently called to the Scottish Bar in 1993.
Mr Browne has been MP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun since 1997 and was previously Parliamentary Private Secretary to the late Donald Dewar MP 1998-1999 and more recently to Adam Ingram MP.
He is a former member of Select Committees on Northern Ireland 1997-1998 and Public Administration 1999 and the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights 2001.
Mr Browne also tabled the Register of Drug Trafficking Offenders Bill, a private Member's Bill to amend the Misuse of Drugs Act (1971) to establish a register of trafficking offenders.
BILL CALLAGHAN
Bill Callaghan was appointed Chair of the Health and Safety Commission on 1 October 1999. He was previously the Chief Economist and Head of the Economic and Social Affairs Department at the TUC. He has considerable experience of working with different groups in the industry and public life and has served on the boards of Business in the Community and the Basic Skills Agency.
Bill Callaghan served on the Low Pay Commission from 1997 to 2000. He was also a member of the Economic Social Research Council's (ESRC) Research Priorities Board. He is a Visiting Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford and a member of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Innovation Group Advisory Board.
RICHARD CLAYDON
Richard has worked as a safety professional for the past 16 years. He has operated in all of RMC’s UK Divisions, these include Cement, Aggregates, Readymix and Building Products as well as some limited involvement in operations which RMC no longer own in the waste control and DIY store industry sectors.
He is a Fellow of IOSH and a Registered Safety Practitioner and a representative of various industry health and safety panels.
Following his recent work in helping RMC to establish health and safety management procedures and standards worldwide, Richard has recently been promoted to the position of International and UK Health and Safety Manager.
AVA FINE
Ava Fine is a highly experienced organisational counsellor, facilitator and consultant with a background in Human Resources in both the NHS and Local Government. Ava has extensive working experience and knowledge of a wide range of organisational settings.
For six years, Ava was the national Employee Welfare Adviser to a countrywide rail freight company during a period of intense organisational change. She specialised in post-trauma stress counselling following major incidents, redundancy counselling and the prevention of bullying and harassment in the workplace.
She later designed and implemented policies and actions relating to stress in the workplace and alcohol and drugs, gaining hands-on experience during the introduction of the ground-breaking Alcohol and Drugs policy within British Rail.
Since becoming an independent consultant six years ago, Ava has worked for a wide range of companies including the Health and Safety Executive, Welsh Assembly Government, NHS Health Scotland, British Film Institute, Department of Health, University of Glamorgan, Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Cardiff City Council, Bridgend County Borough Council and Newport City Council.
On the international stage, Ava, in partnership with John Griffiths of work2health, helps facilitate the Enterprise for Health Network, which brings together some of Europe’s biggest companies to address employee health and its impact on absenteeism and productivity. In the last two years, the work has taken them to Berlin, Bilbao, Aix-en-Provence and Budapest.
The partnership recently produced a comprehensive resource pack on workplace alcohol and drugs issues for NHS Scotland. Ava and John have run “train the trainers” courses associated with the pack in Edinburgh, Glasgow and for the Northern Ireland Drugs and Alcohol Campaign.
In Wales, the partnership is contracted by the Welsh Assembly Government to deliver the Health at Work – The Corporate Standard initiative under which 40 public and 13 private organisations covering 250,000 employees have so far won awards for their approach on employee well-being.
A visiting tutor for the Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling-Organisational Settings in the University of Bristol for the past four years, Ava also provides stress auditing, strategic planning and implementation support to organisations, along with specialist services on bullying and harassment, mediation and communications.
GERARD FORLIN
Gerard Forlin is a leading barrister specialising in, amongst other fields, Health and Safety, Corporate and Gross Negligence, Manslaughter, Disaster Litigation, Regulatory Offences, Human Rights and Public Enquiries.
His experience includes the successful defence in the Faversham M2 coach crash, the Watford, Southall and Paddington train crashes and various cases involving doctors, nurses, directors and companies charged with manslaughter.
Gerard is Standing Counsel for numerous plc’s, unions and government departments in the UK and abroad, and also acts for several local authorities.
He is the General Editor of Butterworth’s Corporate Manslaughter Service, due out in August 2003, and previously has had numerous articles published in his speciality.
Gerard lectures many times each year to safety professionals, universities, lawyers and the media, both in the UK and around the world.
He is a facilitator/trainer for the Bar Council on the Human Rights Act 1998, and a script adviser for various TV companies.
Gerard achieved his LL.B(Hons) and LL.M degrees at LSE, before going on to complete an M.Phil at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar in 1984.
ROBERT GIFFORD
Robert Gifford is Executive Director of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS). PACTS is a registered charity and associate Parliamentary group advising MPs and Peers on road, rail and air safety issues. Its charitable objective is "To promote transport safety legislation to protect human life".
Robert is a member of the Ministerial Road Safety Advisory Panel. Since 1997, he has also acted as a special adviser on transport safety matters to the House of Commons Transport Select Committee. He is a member of the Responsibilities and Rights of the Motorist group of the Motorists' Forum, served on the working group set up by the Highways Agency to look at the implications of the Selby road crash and is a member of the Safety Advisory Board set up by the Rail Safety and Standards Board. He also serves on the National Steering Group of the Driver Improvement Scheme.
Prior to taking up his post with PACTS, he taught English for 13 years and spent six years as a policy officer with the National Union of Teachers. Between 1987 and 1995, he was a councillor on Milton Keynes Borough Council, including three years as Leader. He is still active in local politics, serving currently as chair of Stony Stratford Town Council.
50 in 2002, he is married. His numerous personal interests include cooking, gardening and the performing and visual arts.
SUSAN HARDY
Since 1990 Susan Hardy has been the Occupational Health and Safety Manager for the East Cheshire (NHS) Trust. In recent years under her leadership the Trust has won numerous RoSPA and HSE awards for the quality of its Occupational Health and Safety Management and Training.
Originally qualifying as a State Registered Nurse in both General and Psychiatric Nursing, she worked as a Ward Sister at Cheadle Royal Hospital for five years before joining Ciba Geigy UK as Occupational Health Nursing Officer. Adding further qualifications during her time in this post, Susan was appointed as Senior Nurse Manager for Occupational Health by East Cheshire (NHS) Trust, a role she fulfilled for five years before taking up her current position.
She is an accredited tutor for several health and safety training initiatives and also holds a Cert.Ed from Manchester University, a NEBOSH diploma and an NVQ Level 4 in Health and Safety Practice. She is currently working towards a Masters Degree in Medical Ethics and Law.
Susan is a Member of the Institute of Safety and Health, was a founder member of the National Association of Safety Officers in 1994, and also served on the North West NHS Safety Officers Group.
In her spare time, she plays the violin with Keele Philharmonic Orchestra and enjoys outdoor leisure pursuits.
DAVID KING
David King is presently a policy advisor involved in the implementation of the Work at Height Regulations into UK law. This role involves liaising with industry stakeholders, and HSE’s solicitors, inspectors and technical experts. He is also responsible for the day-to-day issues/questions concerning the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations (LOLER) & the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations (PUWER), although both of these regulations were implemented before he joined HSE.
Prior to joining HSE, David has previously worked in the transport, communications and polymer industries. These occupations have given him wide experience of quality control, planning, and man management.
DR SARA LUMLEY
Sara Lumley originally worked in the textiles industry before writing a thesis on the Training Needs of Small and Medium Organisations in Britain. She then managed an Egronomics Unit at the University of Glamorgan whist developing and lecturing on a vocational MSc course in Health, Safety, Environment and Total Quality. Sara joined the Engineering Employers Federation as Principal Training Advisor and then became a Director and consultant of a SHEMA, she is now a freelance consultant. Sara has been a member of a CEN/ISO committee on concrete production and part of the ENTO working party on Occupational Health and Safety Employment Standards. Sara is a Director of NEBOSH.Dr. Sara Lumley
J A McCAUL
Chief Medical Officer of RWE Innogy Accredited Specialist in occupational medicine with 26 years experience including 13 at Ford Motor Company, 10 years with National Power and 3 with RWE Innogy.
Currently heading up an occupational health service to 10,000 employees of whom 8,000 work in the retail sector and 2,000 in power generation. Main work interests are in collecting data on work related ill health, travel health and in occupational stress I have been the Honorary Secretary of the Society of Occupational Medicine and, more recently, was Chairman of the London Group of the Society. Outside work I am married with two children both of whom are at school. My main interests are motor racing and cricket.
DR MIKE McKIERNAM
Until 2003 Mike was Director of Occupational Policy at EEF (Engineering Employers’ Federation) where he was responsible for the development and representation of national policy and best practice on Health, Safety & Environment and Education & Skills.
He was previously Group Director HS&E at Lucas Industries and later LucasVarity. He was a Health & Safety Commissioner from 1996–2000. He is currently a Trustee Director of RoSPA and Chairman of RoSPA’s Safety Policy Committee. He is also Chairman of the charity BackCare.
He is a medical graduate from the University of Birmingham, an accredited specialist in Occupational Medicine in the UK and Australia and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.
His work has taken him to many parts of the globe and he has practical hands on experience of Europe, Asia, North & South America, Africa and Australia.
He is currently undertaking postgraduate research on the representation of trade and employment in 16th century Flemish painting at the History of Art Department, Barber Institute, University of Birmingham.
DOUG RUSSELL
Doug Russell has been the Health and Safety Officer for the Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers since 1987. His previous employment was as a tutor-organiser with the Workers Educational Association specialising in trade union health and safety training. He has a M.Sc. on “The Structure and Organisation of Science and Technology” from Manchester University and a B.Sc. (Hons) in Chemical Physics from Edinburgh University. He is a corporate member of I.O.S.H. Doug is one of the TUC representatives on the HSC Occupational Health Advisory Committee. He also represents his Union on various tripartite bodies such as the HSE Meat Trades Working Party and Chemical Industry Forum. He regularly attends liaison meetings between the TUC and HSE LAU/HELA. He sits on the Editorial Board of the Lexis-Nexis IRS Occupational Health Review. In his spare time he sits on the management committee of Greater Manchester Hazards Centre.
JONATHAN RUSSELL
Jonathan Russell joined HSE as an inspector in 1988. After 5 years in various inspecting posts covering a wide range of sectors he moved into policy work. His first post was in health policy where he was part of the team responsible for the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations, with specific responsibility for control measures. Other policy posts have included work on: Transport of Dangerous Goods, Agriculture, Welfare, Leisure including fair grounds and swimming pools. In his current post he has policy responsibility for the Health and Safety Commission's Enforcement Policy Statement, the Health and Safety at Work Act, primary legislation development, the Work Related Deaths Protocol, and the Management of Heath and Safety at Work Regulations and incident investigation. He is a Corporate Member of IOSH.
CHRIS SELBY
Chris Selby has been involved in conducting and disseminating results from a broad research portfolio whilst working for The Steel Construction Institute. Through his management of the Fire and Blast Information Group and publishing Offshore Research Focus for the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), he has been responsible for producing high quality information and guidance for the offshore industry. For the last four years he has become increasingly interested in using ICT to improve the effectiveness of dissemination, and this has been exploited through his involvement in the UKCS oil & gas industry Step Change initiative's electronic dissemination strategy.
SUE VINEY
Sue Viney is a Chartered Insurer and an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute (ACII) having worked as a motor fleet underwriter for a major insurer for over 20 years, handling a wide variety of clients, before leaving in 1999 to set up her own Risk Management Consultancy. Since 2001 Sue has been an associate consultant for RoSPA focusing on their Managing Occupational Road Risk consultancy programmes.
With over 20 years’ experience in the industry combined with two as Senior Consultant to RoSPA, Sue is uniquely placed to provide a specialist service to complement clients existing skills and provide access to all aspects of motor fleet risk management, from data collation and analysis to recommendations and assistance in the development of incident reduction, leading to the creation of an accident-free culture.
All business undertaken has been referral/recommendations and current clients vary from those with just a few vehicles to one of the largest privately owned companies in the UK and covering diverse trades/occupations.
Sue’s largest client was the first company to win the coveted RoSPA Award for management of occupational road risks.
LAWRENCE WATERMAN
Chairman of Sypol Limited, well-known for its COSHH Management and other services, with its team of 52 staff providing health, safety and environmental consultancy throughout the UK and overseas. He drafted the preliminary feasibility study for HSE into occupational health support for the construction industry, is a member of Securing Health Together Programme Action Group, and appointed occupational health advisor to the Terminal 5 project. The integration of occupational hygiene and safety techniques has been the core of his work. He is President-Elect of IOSH, and (joint) winner of the Gold Medal for Health & Safety in Construction awarded by the Institution of Civil Engineers.
MICHAEL WRIGHT
Michael, with over 15 years risk management consultancy experience, heads Greenstreet Berman’s policy, regulation and evaluation research and consultancy service for Government agencies and regulators, as well as leading risk management and Corporate Social Responsibility work for blue chip companies.
He has completed a series of studies in support of the HSC’s objective of engaging boards and external stakeholders such as investors and insurers in health and safety. He has also directed a series of studies aimed at providing a clearer link between company health and safety performance and insurance costs, on behalf of both the HSE and the Association of British Insurers. This work has culminated in the development of practical techniques for assessing corporate and SME health and safety performance in a format that supports investors’ and insurers’ decision making, including a web based Corporate Health and Safety Performance Index (CHaSPI).
NINA WRIGHTSON
Nina Wrightson’s career began with the HM Factory Inspectorate. In 1988 she was appointed Regional Safety Adviser for the government office in Yorkshire and Humberside. A move to Nestle UK Limited as Safety Manager provided fresh challenges in a position within private industry and in 1977, she joined Northern Foods plc as Group Health and Safety Executive. She is Chair of RoSPA’s National Occupational Health and Safety Committee and is a member of the CBI’s Health and Safety Panel. She was President of the ‘Institute of Occupational Safety and Health’ in 1998/99 and is currently a Governor of the British Safety Council.
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