Events

National food and drink manufacturing health and safety conference 

Following the very successful annual conference held in Harrogate in October 2012, the next national conference will take place at a different location in October 2013.

This annual event remains the foremost health and safety conference in the food and drink manufacturing calendar, aimed at health and safety practitioners, health and safety representatives, managers, consultants, enforcing authorities and machinery & equipment designers and suppliers.

The event is run by IOSH in partnership with the Food and Drink Manufacture Health and Safety Forum and HSE.

Further information, contacts and booking details will be found on the IOSH website.

Events around the UK

Health and safety events take place throughout the year. These events include:

• HSE health and safety events
• IOSH health and safety events    

Local food industry Health and Safety Groups

Many food manufacturers have jointly set up health and safety groups in their region. These include:

• Food Industry Safety and Health Network (FISHNET) covering Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex
• Food Industry Regional Safety Team (FIRST) covering Leicestershire, Warwickshire, Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire
• Northwest Food and Drink Group covering west and north Yorkshire
• Somerset and Dorset Food Industry Group
• Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire Food Industry Health and Safety Group
• North West London Food Industry Safety Group

In addition there are many local general industry health and safety groups in existence. Two which have a largely food industry membership are:

• Humberside Occupational Health and Safety Group (RoSPA) covering Hull and Yorkshire
• South Humberside Health and Safety Group (RoSPA) covering Grimsby and Lincolnshire

As contact details for these groups change frequently it is unfortunately not possible to provide contact addresses.