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Ed Corbett CPsychol AFBPsS
Head of Human Factors & Organisational Performance, HSE Science DivisionEd Corbett is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist at the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). He heads up HSE's Human Factors and Psychology teams in Science Division. Working for a national regulator, Ed has an understanding of regulatory requirements and how duty holders can demonstrate compliance.
Ed’s work currently focuses on leadership development for health and safety. In recent years he has been involved in the development of HSE’s leadership development programmes, and the current HSE/NEBOSH qualification. He has also been part of the development and delivery of training on incident investigation and organisational learning.
Prior to re-joining HSE in 2015, he spent approximately six years working in the offshore oil and gas and shipping sectors on various projects aimed at increasing human reliability through systemic organisational interventions. A significant part of this work also focused on working with senior management to enhance H&S skills.
Greg Davies
Director of Market Development, Assurity ConsultingGreg has worked for over 30 years in health, safety and environmental compliance management covering aspects including Legionella, H&S, fire, asbestos, building environment quality and sustainability.
A degree-qualified microbiologist he joined Assurity Consulting in 1989 and is a Specialist Member of the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management (IIRSM), committee member of the iwfm Sustainability Special Interest Group and IIRSM London Branch.
Greg is a regular blogger and contributor to our industry press, with over 200 articles published on health and safety, risk and environmental management/sustainability. He chaired the CIBSE committee that revised TM13, was the author of the original BIFM good practise guide to risk management and has been survey lead for the iwfm sustainability in FM survey for the last 5 years.
On subjects ranging from water management to the “Red Tape Challenge” Greg has also spoken at events for, or been involved with, organisations including Defra, PHE, DECC (now BIES), RICS, CIEH, BSRIA, IOSH, the London Health and Safety Group, CIBSE, IWFM, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) and BSC.
Clare Forshaw
Occupational Health & Hygiene Partner | Park Health & Safety PartnershipClare is an Occupational Health & Hygiene Partner with Park Health & Safety Partnership. She previously worked at HSE and has over 20 years’ experience in workplace health management. Her role involves assisting organisations in achieving their goals in health risk management. With a strong interest and experience in assisting organisations develop a strategic and sustainable approach to health management, she also works closely with senior management teams to embed appropriate leadership and culture for organisational health maturity.
Clare is actively involved in advising many industry sector working groups to embed a strategic health roadmap of improvement and sits on various committees to influence and evolve understanding and approaches to improving health through the workplace. Clare is the founder and director of the UK Hearing Conservation Association which was launched in March 2019 and aims to prevent damage to people’s hearing health and other noise related health conditions; through a multidisciplinary approach to developing practical, evidenced and cost-effective communications and solutions.
Chris Green
Regulatory Partner | Keoghs SolicitorsChris leads Keoghs’ and crime and regulatory team across the Midlands and specialises exclusively in providing expert advice in relation to adverse incidents and compliance with regulatory requirements.
A former prosecutor, since 1995 his experience includes representing companies, directors, senior managers, public sector organisations and individuals in defending, responding to and avoiding regulatory breaches.
He provides specialist support and advice from the outset following accidents and crisis events such as food, fire, rail and environmental incidents within his clients’ businesses.
Chris was first ranked in Chambers in 2003 and he has been named as one of the Top 50 legal advisers in the North West. For many years he has been a named individual with a Top Tier ranking for Health and Safety in the Legal 500 and quoted in Chambers.
He is also quoted in the legal experts section of Tolley’s Guide to Corporate Manslaughter and has been published, interviewed and quoted by the Times, BBC Breakfast, BBC Radio 2, Radio 5 Live and Central News. He has also written published articles for the Financial Times, Insurance Post, Birmingham Post and Estates Gazette and Chris regularly delivers speeches and training for the leading practitioners’ bodies such as IOSH, ROSPA, the British Safety Council etc.
He sits on the IOSH Food and Drink Industries Committee. Before joining Keoghs, Chris led a highly regarded team of specialist regulatory lawyers, the team’s accolades included a top tier ranking in Legal 500 in the East and ranked in West Midlands.
Stephen Haynes
Head of Programme | Mates in MindStephen is the Head of Programme for Mates in Mind, a framework to support construction companies in improving mental health & wellbeing. He is a specialist in the design, implementation and management of workplace health & wellbeing programmes and co-founder of the C3 Workplace Health Movement, a global networking body of HR and workplace health professionals. Stephen is also an advisor to the Mayor of London’s Healthy Workplace Charter as well as an assessor of London based organisations, examining and advising on the Healthy Workplace Charter standards.
Lawrence Waterman, OBE
Chairman, British Safety CouncilLawrence Waterman OBE CFIOSH is the Chairman of the British Safety Council since 24 November 2017.
He was formerly head of health and safety for the London Olympic Delivery Authority, which proved to be the safest and healthiest major construction project in Europe, incorporating the venues, infrastructure and athletes’ village for the London 2012 Olympic Games, for which he was appointed OBE for services to health and safety in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Honours.
Lawrence has led the development of occupational health and safety programmes for major projects and organisations, in some of the most challenging environments. Since London 2012, he has been the Director of Health and Safety for the Battersea Power Station Development, an advisor to the Tideway project team and a member of Tarmac’s senior leadership team. He remains the senior adviser to the London Legacy Development Corporation, which continues to develop the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and is also providing support for the Royal Albert Dock Development.
He is the past president of IOSH. Lawrence is also a visiting professor at Loughborough University, where he both teaches and participates in research.
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