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IOSH 2011 conference and exhibition, 15–16 March 2011, ExCeL London
Already established as the key date in the health and safety calendar for industry professionals, the IOSH 2011 conference will offer delegates its most expansive programme in its history, including 55 expert speakers, 35 conference sessions and unparalleled networking opportunities including two evening drinks receptions.
Taking place from 15 – 16 March at ExCeL London and running in conjunction with the extensive IOSH exhibition, the conference, the theme of which is ‘Health and Safety: Rising to the challenge’, will be split into four separate tracks: ‘Managing legislative change’, ‘Striving for safety excellence’, ‘Responding to economic uncertainty’ and ‘Developing healthy working lives’. The tracks will provide delegates with a varied programme and ensure they walk away with answers to the most pressing issues facing health and safety practitioners today. Keynote addresses, interviews and discussions will also take place before and after the track sessions.
Leading trade body supports European Week for Safety and Health at Work
The British Safety Industry Federation (BSIF) is supporting this month’s European Week for Safety and Health at Work (25th – 31st October) organised by The European Campaign for Safety and Health at Work and supported by the Health and Safety Executive.
This year will see the launch of a new theme for the next two years – Safe Maintenance. The HSE, in conjunction with TUC, launched a campaign earlier this year to increase understanding of the importance of safe maintenance in the workplace. Like previous campaigns, it is based on employers, employees and their health and safety representatives working together.
Cuts to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and to local authority budgets announced in the spending review will make it easier for rogue employers to take unacceptable risks with the health and safety of their workforce, the TUC said Friday.
TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: ‘In the last seven days health and safety has been hit by a triple whammy. The Young Review, which last week seemed to rule out any commitment from the Government to the occupational health agenda, was followed this week by deep cuts to spending which will make it easier for employers to avoid their obligations under the law to keep their staff safe and well at work.
‘This week the HSE saw its budget cut by 35 per cent and that, combined with a 28 per cent cut in local government funding, will have a damaging impact on safety in workplaces up and down the UK.
‘Workers need their safety and health protecting now more than ever. More than a million workers are currently suffering from an illness or injury caused by their work, and last year over 30 million days were lost due to work-related sickness absence. This time off work cost employers £3.7 billion, yet much of this could have been prevented if they had taken better care of their staff.
‘Cuts of this magnitude cannot be achieved through ‘efficiency savings’ but will mean job losses for large numbers of frontline staff. That will mean fewer visits to workplaces, less enforcement of safety law, and reduced health and safety guidance for employers. As a result, more people are likely to be made ill by their jobs, and killed or injured at work. All in all it’s been a bad seven days for health and safety.’
Source: NewsOnNews
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A new national register of occupational safety consultants will be set up to help employers access good quality, proportionate advice, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has confirmed.
The Occupational Safety Consultants Register (OSCR) will go live in January 2011. It will provide firms with details of consultants who have met the highest qualification standard of recognised professional bodies and who are bound by a code of conduct that requires them to only give advice which is sensible and proportionate.
The register has been developed by HSE and a network of professional bodies representing safety consultants across Britain. Employers will visit a single website that helps them to find local advisers with experience relevant to their sector.
Judith Hackitt, the HSE chair, said:
“Lord Young quite rightly recognised that businesses find it difficult to know when they need expert safety advice and where to go to get it. The Occupational Safety Consultants Register will make it easier to identify consultants who meet the highest standards within their professional bodies.
In this day and age of compensation claims for even the most minor strains and accidents it pays all employers to comply with Health and Safety regulations to cover themselves as well as their employees. The Health and Safety Executive regulations have, for a number of years now, made it a legal requirement for all employers to assess and reduce the risk to staff in the workplace.
Some employers, pressed for time as well as money, find this a problem. Whole work days are sometimes lost, venues need to be booked and paid for and transport provided. All this comes at the expense of the employer but surely cannot be as costly as the amount of sick days taken in the name of work related health problems.