Following the success of earlier years the Food and Drink Manufacturing Health & Safety Forum and the Specialist Group Food, Drink and Hospitality of the Institution of Occupational Safety & Health (IOSH) will be running another two-day conference in October 2008.
Judith Hackitt CBE, new chair of the HSC, will be the keynote speaker. The conference programme will cover important and topical issues such as machinery safety including machinery/plant interventions, workplace transport including lift trucks, slips prevention, manual handling/MSD, accident investigation, safety risk assessment, occupational health priorities, stress and mental health, occupational health risk assessment, updates on multicultural issues and the 'Recipe for Safety' supervisors' training pack.
The conference is aimed at a wide audience - directors, factory managers, site managers, plant designers, health and safety officers, occupational health professionals, HR/personnel managers, process development managers, technical managers, supervisors, trade union safety representatives etc..
There will be places for 150 delegates, however early booking is recommended as the previous five events (held in Chipping Campden) were fully subscribed. Expressions of interest should be made to the conference organiser.
Venue: Imperial Hotel, Blackpool
Date/time: Commencing 8 October 2008 at 1000 and finishing 9 October at 1545
Organiser: Ruth Thorpe, IOSH Specialist Groups Manager ruth.thorpe@iosh.co.uk, tel: 0116 257 3144
In recent years many food manufacturers have jointly set up health and safety groups in their region. These include:
In addition there are many local general industry health and safety groups in existence. Two which have a largely food industry membership are:
As contact details for these groups change frequently it is not possible to provide contact addresses on this page. However contact details can be obtained from HSE's Food Section.