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SHOW PREVIEW


Health and Safety North will once again take place in Bolton on 7th and 8th October. Tomorrow’s Health & Safety gets a behind the scenes look at what will be on offer at this year’s show.


This year’s Health & Safety North aims to provide all the latest news and legislative updates currently shaping the health and safety sector. With a free to attend conference authored by the British Safety Council and some of the most respected UK vendors exhibiting, the event, taking place on 7th and 8th October 2015 at The Bolton Arena, guarantees free and quality advice to all attendees.


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HOSTS CONFERENCE The event hosts a wide array of conference sessions, organised through the British Safety Council that cover industry ‘hot’ topics. These range from key developments in the health and safety regulatory framework to how measurement of health and safety performance can provide the information an individual needs to know on managing risks in their organisation.


On day one, Louise Taggart, a health and safety training and project


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delivery professional, will deliver her presentation entitled ‘Michael’s story – the impact of not managing risk effectively’. Addressing the presentation to anyone with a responsibility for health and safety in the workplace, Louise will tell the story of how her 26-year-old brother, an experienced electrician, died tragically 10 years ago on a job site as a result of an electrical incident, which could and should have been prevented.


“VISITORS TO HEALTH AND SAFETY NORTH WILL ALSO BENEFIT FROM PRACTICAL SEMINARS HOSTED BY EVENT PARTNERS SUCH AS 3M, ARCO AND DUPONT PERSONAL PROTECTION.”


During the presentation, Louise will talk through the catalogue of errors in health and safety management that accumulated to prove fatal. She will


also discuss the wider consequences of Michael’s death in the hope that lessons can be learnt and other deaths can be prevented. Visitors can catch Louise’s poignant presentation at 11:10 on 7th October.


In the afternoon on the first day, Dr Louise Vassie, an Institute of Directors independent consultant and advisor, turns the focus onto the audience, encouraging them to ask some important questions about their own health and safety performance. With her 45-minute presentation entitled ‘Health and safety performance – how do you think you’re doing?’ Louise will cover how measurement of health and safety performance can provide insight into how to do things more effectively. Highlighting the importance of using, selecting and reporting performance data, the presentation looks at some key issues determining the effectiveness of performance management.


Following a busy first day, the programme on 8th October is not to


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HEALTH & SAFETY NORTH 2015


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