Join the debate at The Health & Safety Event

Education is a major theme for the event and the seminars organised by The British Safety Council will address the very latest challenges in the safety sector. Opening the three-day conference is the seminar entitled ‘Recent Developments in Health and Safety Regulation – Changes and Challenges’ delivered by Jane Willis, Director of Cross-cutting Interventions, Health & Safety Executive. The presentation will give an overview of the many developments in health and safety regulation and its enforcement in the UK following a number of different reviews since 2010, with a key focus on the recently published Triennial review. It will consider the impact and challenges of these changes for both the regulator and the regulated and also outline what these are likely to mean for future regulation.

Providing insight into how large manufacturing businesses handle their safety requirement is John Holt, Director HS&E at Rolls-Royce with his seminar entitled ‘Delivering health and safety in a global power systems business’.

On the second day, the pre-exhibition Breakfast Briefing benefits from guest VIP speaker Ed Galea, a renowned expert on advising governments on how to avoid potential disasters. In his briefing, Ed will be speaking about real life emergency experiences such as 9/11 and the World Trade Centre disaster, and how egress affects the world of health and safety.

The event is co-located with exhibitions including MAINTEC 2014 and Facilities Management 2014.The event aims to meet the needs of those visitors that have been visiting the NEC on an annual basis to get their health and safety information, as well as giving visitors to MAINTEC and Facilities Management the opportunity to expand the range of products they can evaluate, experts that they can speak to and seminars they can attend.