Itinerary for Sandown Park, 27th February 2008
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H & S 08 Southern – IOSH Seminars: Summaries
Copies of each seminar presentation from HealthandSafety’08 - South are now available to download. Simply click the orange link attached to the seminar notes you wish to see. In some cases copies of these presentations are available with approval from the speaker; we have provided an email link for you to submit your request in each case.H & S 08 Southern – Event Partner Seminars: Summaries
Wednesday 27 February
10:00-10:45 - View Seminar
Speaker- Mike Flannery
Insurance – Friend or Foe?
For years, insurance and health and safety seem to have been somewhat at odds. Only in the largest organisations do you find arrangements where both are viewed as equal and mutually beneficial partners in the management of risk. The presentation will examine practical, tried and tested ways of leveraging your H&S programme to achieve significant impact on your insurances and how to use your insurers to assist in progressing H&S programmes that may benefit from external oomph! (and finance).
11:15-12:00
Speaker – Ioanni Toutoungi
Behavioural Based Safety-The Impact of Organisational Culture
Organisational culture can be a complex concept to understand, let alone to portray. This interactive presentation will attempt to explicate what organisational culture is and the impact it may have on behavioural safety within a high reliability organisation.
13:00- 13:45 - View Seminar
Speaker – Martin Kirk
Manual Handling
The presentation will give an overview of the guideline limits and raise awareness of the MAC assessment tool. It will also cover the 2002 legal update.
14:15-15:00 - View Seminar
Speaker- Neil Budworth
Risk Management - The Foundations of Health and Safety
The presentation will show how risk management has underpinned the development of health and safety practice and influences how we tackle issues as practitioners, on a daily basis
Wednesday 27 February
09:15-10:15 - Email for Seminar
Speaker – Ian Samson, DuPont
The correct method of selection and use of chemical protective clothing
When it comes to choosing protective coveralls, specifications are often littered with scientific terms that users are unable to put into practice context. Chemical protective clothing specialist Ian Samson will cut through the technical jargon to discuss best practice in the selection of limited use protective garments, and once selected, how a protective garment must be put on (donned) and removed (doffed) to avoid the potential for cross-contamination of hazardous substances after the wearer has left the “danger zone”.
10:45-11:30 - View Seminar
Speaker – Nigel Maddison, Inburex Consulting
Electrostatic Discharges- The Hazards and How to Manage Them.
The presentation will explain the phenomena of electrostatic charging and the formation of hazardous discharges. A procedure for assessing electrostatic hazards, which can occur both with plant equipment and, more importantly,during manual operations, will be described. The selection of appropriate safety measures to meet the requirements of the ATEX Directive will be discussed together with the requirements for antistatic clothing and gloves specified in new European Standard EN 1149-5.
12:00-12:45 - Email for Seminar
Speaker - Paul Difford , Principal People
Industrial Accident Investigation - Intentional ‘At Risk’ Behaviour
As ardent supporters of leading edge accident prevention initiatives, Principal People again devote their seminars to the work of the Institute of Industrial Accident Investigators. The Director of R&D at the Institute will present data and findings that are currently enabling clients to pre-empt and counter the potential of worker violation without a clear understanding of the true extent of which, organisations are unlikely to be either inclined, or prepared, to counter it.
13:15-14:15 - Email for Seminar
Speaker – Elaina Harvey, DuPont
Protection against burn injury from electric arc
The imminent introduction of an IEC standard for garments, updated test methods for types of arcs and the introduction of a revised European Standard to protect against heat and flame could affect many organisations whose employees are at risk of burn injury from electric arc. Elaina Harvey, protective clothing specialist from DuPont, manufacturer of heat-and-flame protective fibre NOMEX®, will discuss:
- What the changes in legislation will mean for end-users and protective garment manufacturers
- The hazards in electric arc
- Risk assessment
- The importance of why employees need to be protected by FR clothing
- The selection of PPE.
14:45-15:30 - View Seminar
Speaker - Mike Denton, Aearo
Hearing Protection- Just Legal or Just Right?
With all the confusion of Exposure Limits, Action Values, Real World Attenuation and Correction Factors, what are we trying to achieve in a hearing Conservation Programme? The proposals from EN 458 and the HSE guidance are considered to find a sound path through the maze.
