Annual Sheffield Occupational Health and Safety Association Conference
12 October 2010: Tapton Hall, Sheffield
This year, the Annual Sheffield Occupational Health and Safety Association (SOHSA) Conference will explore, through a variety of presentations and exhibits, the lessons learned following a local workplace death, and how brought about change in management and safety culture within the workplace.
Agenda Sessions:
- Leadership – A keynote speech enforcing the importance of leadership, highlighting guidance produced by both HSE and the Institute of Directors to help directors take the lead in health and safety.
Gillian Spurrier, Head of Operations, Yorkshire & Humber HSE
- What can go wrong: lessons learned – Mark Wait discusses the effects a preventable death in the workplace had on a local company, highlighting the changes in health and safety culture taken place since the accident.
Mark Wait, Transition International Ltd
- It will never happen to me! – The personal, first-hand account of Jen Deeney, who is the widow of a construction worker killed in a preventable workplace incident. Jen discusses the impact her husband’s death has had on the family.
Jen Deeney
- An evolution in safety culture – Delegates are given an insight into the root causes and triggers to unsafe behaviour in a discussion of behavioural-based safety (BBS) by Carolyn Yeoman and Kate Blackford, corporate culture and psychology experts.
Dr Carolyn Yeoman & Kate Blackford, Highley Yeoman Consulting Ltd
- Corporate manslaughter and you – Looking at the fatality case-studies already discussed, Zoe Betts and Kevin Bridges discuss corporate manslaughter, explaining new laws that will dictate corporate manslaughter trials.
Zoe Betts & Kevin Bridges, Pinsent Masons LLP
Venue and Delegate Information
Tapton Masonic Hall,
Shore Lane, Sheffield, S10 3BU.
Registration and coffee from 08:30.
Conference start at 09:30, close 16:30.
Day includes lunch, refreshments,
networking and safety exhibition.
For more detailed information on this event, please visit the SOHSA conference website.
Booking information
For members of the SOSHA, tickets are £50. For non-members, tickets are priced at £90. Please contact the SOHSA conference website or call 0114 236 0854 for more information or to book a place.
