The RoSPA Scotland Conference provides an annual opportunity for the health and safety community in Scotland to come together and discuss key issues facing professionals, including a focus on mental health and how businesses can implement ISO 45001.
The agenda has now been confirmed as follows:
16.30 -19.00 – talks
Establishing a culture of risk prevention across the working age population by Dr Karen McDonnell, Head of RoSPA Scotland and RoSPA OHS Policy Adviser
Communicating critical information by John Johnston, Health, Safety & Radiation Adviser, TechnipFMC, Chair of RoSPA Awards Excellence Forum
IOSH No Time to Lose : Focus on Asbestos by Michelle Muxworthy, MSc CFIOSH Vice-President, IOSH, Helical Blue Consulting
Not for play…keep them away by Lesley Nish, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde | GRI · Public Health
Where organisations fail: a practitioner’s perspective by Helen Pearson, MSc. Occ Hygiene, LFOH, CFIOSH, FIIRSM, Viridis Safety
19.00 – 20.00 – networking
An opportunity to network with colleagues over drinks and canapes.
To book your place at RoSPA Scotland Conference 2018 click here.
Image: a recent Women in Health and Safety event
The WiHS meeting, which is free to attend, will introduce the EU-OSHA campaign to Scotland’s health and safety community, focussing on a whole life approach to managing dangerous substances, providing an insight into the challenges of managing dangerous substances across the life course, focussing on the working age population and how to effectively engage and communicate critical information.
Image: Karen McDonnell
Karen McDonnell, Head of RoSPA Scotland & Occupational Health and Safety Policy Adviser at RoSPA said: “We want to encourage a whole person whole life approach to prevention across working lives. Workplaces tend to manage dangerous substances well, but how do we translate what we do well in the workplace to the wider community towards lives free from serious accidental injury?”
“We are hoping that as part of the Women in Health and Safety shared network we can really build some momentum around the EUOSHA campaign here in the UK, sharing best practice and creating case studies.”
The meeting will allow time for peer networking and a chance for everyone to share what works for them in terms of managing dangerous substances.
Karen, who will be speaking at the event to introduce the EU-OSHA campaign said: “The Women in Health and Safety Network is so energetic. We really want to let people have a chance to tell us what is working for them, how they got to where they are, in order that we can keep the dialogue going around this and other topics we tackle on a daily basis.”
The event
The free to attend networking event concluding with a drinks reception takes place between 16.30 – 20.00 at Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh…and is open to members and non-members of Women in Health and Safety (both men and women are encouraged to attend).
To register your interest, please email Carolyn Reid
