Stream A
Improving Learning & Performance

Health & Safety:
Mentoring a Positive Way Forward
An assessment of the mentoring process within IOSH, designed to assist and develop other IOSH members in their professional development and how this programme has evolved to now being adopted internationally. Identifying the strategies used, training elements involved, and its potential application as a blueprint for safety promotion.

Tim Briggs, MA CFIOSH
Course Leader BSc(Hons) Health, Safety and Environmental Management,
Leeds Metropolitan University

Safety Management:
The Implementation of a Successful
e-learning Strategy
Employee engagement through a high impact e-learning strategy designed to increase employee awareness on key risk areas, supplemented by high quality supporting material as well as discussing cost benefit analysis' and measuring critical success factors. PRUPIM are working to revolutionise the current approach towards safety management with a strong emphasis on employee engagement through technology as well as measurement and improvement of safety culture more widely.

Ian Riches, CMIOSH
Health & Safety Manager PRUPIM | Real Estate Investment Management, Part of Prudential Plc

Stream B
Integrating Systems & Partnerships

Close Partnering:
A Practical Model to Improve Health and Safety Compliance
Engaging with suppliers and contractors to improve health and safety is an important part of the work of a client organisation such as the Highways Agency. This paper demonstrates a practical model that has delivered improvements in both the level of safety compliance and rate of improvement throughout the industry. It details the mechanism of close partnering used to achieve these as well as the key elements that have been embedded in the close partnering model to ensure that it remains effective. Specific examples are included from the perspective of the client (Highways Agency), contractor (Carillion plc) and organisation responsible for qualitative monitoring and evaluation (TRL Limited).

Paul Mitchell
Head of National Health & Safety, Highways Agency
Bob Wadsworth, MBE
Incident Support Manager, Carillion plc
Dr Iain Rillie
Road Safety Specialist, Transport Research Laboratory (TRL Limited)

The Relationship Between Work / Working and Improved Health, Safety and Well-being
This project has reviewed scientific evidence on the effects of different types of work (or job characteristics) on health benefits, increased well-being and safety. A multi-method approach has been used to examine what measures are available to assess health, safety and well-being and what characteristics of jobs are “good” for health. The relative importance, effect sizes and optimum combinations of these factors has also been examined. In addition, new quantitative research is being undertaken to increase the knowledge base of cause and effect relationships between work and health, and the relative balance of adverse and beneficial effects of different elements of work.

Professor Andy Smith, BSc., PhD., C.Psychol., FRSM
Director, Centre for Occupational and Health Psychology, School of Psychology Cardiff University

Stream A
Improving Learning & Performance

Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Health & Safety Training Interventions
Safety interventions at an organisational level, particularly those which are designed to impact on the company's safety climate over time, are rare and evaluation of the effectiveness of such safety interventions even more so. This presentation details the design and implementation of health and safety training in a range of organisations, with the aim of determining the impact these interventions have on the organisational safety climate, as well as the effect on employees' attitudes and behaviour. An overview of the progression of the project, highlighting indicators of best practice and reporting on initial results.

Dr Sharon Clarke
Reader in Organisational Psychology, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester.

The Safe Learner Blueprint
The health, safety and welfare of learners are fundamental values of the Learning and Skills Council (LSC). This presentation will review The Safe Learner Blueprint, a template designed to assist organisations in developing individuals as part of the life long learning experience and how successful application will result in an individual who can demonstrate safe behaviours, an awareness of risk assessment and control, and will provide a set of transferable value added skills that can be utilised in any learning or working environment. There will be specific emphasis placed on research carried out by the Institute of Employment Studies on behalf of the LSC.

John Atkinson, MA (Law), CMIOSH, MIIRSM
Chartered Health & Safety Practitioner, Learner Health & Safety Manager, National Employer Service, Learning and Skills Council

Stream B
Integrating Systems & Partnerships

Health & Safety Partnerships: Leveraging, Collaborating and Engaging
Partnerships between regulators, public agencies and other stakeholders have been promoted and pursued as a more effective way to achieve health and safety goals. A presentation of the research (completed for the Health and Safety Executive, Communities and Local Government, Food Standards Agency and Sports Council for Wales) into the nature, role and outcome of partnerships in the context of residential fire safety, occupational health and safety, food safety and sports promotion. Analysis of the impact of partnerships on injury rates, safety management standards and culture change, cost effectiveness and assessment of the features of effective partnerships. It will detail a ‘policy model’ to inform future engagement and support of partnerships, along with suggestions on further development of good practice. It will provide valuable lessons learnt on the evaluation of partnerships and how best to build evaluation into future programmes.

Michael S Wright
Greenstreet Berman Ltd

Understanding the Role of Supply Chains in Influencing Health & Safety Management and Regulation
The paper will provide a systematic, wide-ranging critical review of the diverse body of international research discussing the nature of supply chain relationships, the influences they may have on the behaviour of the parties concerned and its relevance to health and safety at work.

Professor David Walters
Professor of Work Environment,
Director Cardiff Work Environment
Research Centre, Cardiff University