EBIS Health
&
Safety Law and Practice
– Annual Update 2024
Programme
9.-9.30 Registration and coffee
9.30 Introduction
Aims and objectives, outline of the day.
How to submit questions.
HSE Priorities and
Current Enforcement Action
- a review of the HSE annual business plan, and progress on the 10-year
strategy
- what statistics for
injuries, health, notices and FFI reveal about the HSE priorities
- what is likely to bring
HSE Inspectors to your premises this year?
- review of legislative
changes in the safety field
Managing Safety in
Procurement – The New Act
- analysing the implications for safety of the new procurement regulations
- how these changes will support a sustainable
procurement process
- how this effects EHS practitioners and what
they need to do
Case Law Update -
Work at Height
Why are we still having so many accidents from falls from height?
- what the data tells us
- what the legal cases highlight
- what we need to (keep) doing
- what's new with fall protection anchor devices?
10.55Coffee
Break
11.15 Navigating the PPE Minefield - Legally
- what are the
latest legal requirements
- managing the
complexities of inclusive PPE
- legal
implications of the growing problem of non-compliant and potentially unsafe PPE
Young Workers - Managing
the Risk
- what we learn from the latest legal cases
- what the law says
- some psychology for EHS professionals
- what we need to do
Beware inspection
failures – recent legal cases
- ensuring the competence of external inspection services
- lessons learned
in identifying and managing joint liability aspects.
Managing Asbestos -
increased focus on legal duties
- what's not working with asbestos awareness?
- what are the HSE doing differently?
- what should we be doing to protect people from asbestos
- how do we apply what we know about managing asbestos to preventing
disasters with RAAC?
12.40 Lunch Break
13.40 What's happening with OHS tech?
- Should I be looking at
AI and robots?
- What are the latest
tech-tools for OHS?
- What about the basics?
- What does good
governance look like with tech?
Protective security
- what’s happened to Martyn’s Law?
- updating security and crisis management arrangements
- the impacts on EHS professionals
Workplace Cancer Latest
- no time to lose
- The stats, and why we can't rely on them
- What are the 'big four'
we should be concerned about?
- What new carcinogens
could be on the rise?
COSHH Legal update
- recent cases involving respiratory hazards –
- recent cases involving
skin hazards.
14.50Tea Break
15.10 Legal Update on Confined Space Issues
- "That's not a confined space" - oh yes it is. How we need to
be more rigorous in identifying confined spaces.
- what happens when we get it wrong
- What is a confined space legally? With examples in office buildings as
well as 'traditional' workplaces
- So it's a confined space. What next?
People versus vehicles
- analysing latest cases and prosecutions
- the challenge of keeping pedestrians separated from moving vehicles
- recent cases
- using competent
operators of mobile plant
Electric vehicles
are a great idea - but what about the risk?
- Myth and reality of the fire risk
- Should I provide EV charging stations for staff or customers? If so,
how?
Fire Safety Update
- rethinking the provisions for evacuation planning and testing
- refining personal
emergency evacuation plans (PEEPs)
16.05-16.15 Closing summary and last chance to answer
questions