SHOW PREVIEW
24th - 26th March 2015
NEC, Birmingham
THE HEALTH & SAFETY EVENT 2015 PREVIEW
The Health and Safety Event is a national exhibition and conference organised by Western Business Exhibitions that will take place from 24th to 26th March 2015 at the NEC in Birmingham. Here, Tomorrow’s Health & Safety gets a sneak peek of the show.
Taking place over three days, the Health & Safety Event will provide visitors with a diverse educational programme, the opportunity to meet the industry’s most highly respected organisations and the chance to network with other professionals. Additionally, appealing to time pressured visitors from across a range of industry sectors, the event is taking place at the same time and in the same location as Maintec, Facilities Management 2015 and Cleaning Expo 2015. This co-location of events ensures that any visitor will maximise the time they spend attending the NEC.
Each year the event organisers work in partnership with the UK’s top safety product and service providers, as well as the leading safety industry organisations to provide an exhibition and conference programme that is relevant to today’s workplace. This year, IIRSM will independently author the main conference streams at the event and BOHS, the British Occupational Hygiene Society, will officially support the event.
The IIRSM comprehensive conference programme will cover the latest risk and safety issues and the presenters are recognised experts who are able to deliver insight and relevant experience across a wide range of industries.
Emma Cundiff’s presentation ‘Developing a Risk Management Programme’ is a must in the calendar of any health and safety manager or business director. Her seminar builds
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a bridge between Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and Occupational Safety and Health, which on the surface are two completely different worlds. Emma believes that the skills used in the two disciplines are similar and therefore the two worlds have crossover that is advantageous to explore. There is also very real movement in the market whereby those with responsibility for safety and health are having other related responsibilities ‘tagged on’ to their role. Among these are ‘the environment’ and, increasingly, ‘risk management’.
Unusually for a presenter, Emma acknowledges that her seminar might not be to everyone’s taste. “Health and Safety practitioners,” Emma says, “are used to being bounded by the law whereas ERM is not. Organisations that have a risk management framework in place determine how much or how little risk they wish to take, but with the knowledge of the extent and type of risk they are taking. In my seminar I want to turn the concept of risk, as it is usually recognised as a negative in nature, inside out and look at how the likelihood of an opportunity risk might be maximised.”
Again, looking at the similarities between the two sectors, there are many aspects of the risk assessment process which correlate to developing a risk management programme. ERM is not only focused on the health and safety aspects of a business, it also considers strategic, financial and
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