Meeting Schedule for 2019

Dr Shaun Lundy CMIOSH C. Build E MCABE FRSPH FHEA

Technical Director at 4site Consulting and Visiting Scholar at the University of Greenwich School of Design

Shaun is a Chartered Safety and Health Practitioner, Chartered Building Engineer with over 25 years of experience advising on health, safety and fire risks. Prior to joining 4site Shaun was Head of the Built Environment Department at the University of Greenwich.  In addition to his day job as Technical Director at 4site Shaun is a visiting Scholar at the University of Greenwich, a member of the Health and safety Executives Myth Buster Challenge Panel, and a Member of the Professional Standards Committee at the Institution of Occupational Safety & Health.  Shaun also works with the Association of Residential Managing Agents (ARMA) as a member of the health and safety committee and with the Institute of Residential Property Managers (IRPM) on the health and safety working group, addressing issues raised by the Hackitt Review on Building Regulations and Fire Safety. Shaun’s research interests include leadership, education and competence in health, safety and fire practice within the built environment.

Session Summary

Many books on leadership seem to imply that leaders matter a great deal and followers hardly at all. Where followers are mentioned they are sometimes referred to as subordinates and mistakenly assumed to be amorphous, all one and the same. As such we can fail to notice that those who mindlessly go along with an intervention are altogether different from those who are deeply devoted.

It is long overdue for health and safety practitioners to fully acknowledge the importance of understanding their follower groups better. Particularly in relation to generational issues, political motivations and past experiences.

These distinctions have critical implications for how leaders in health & safety should lead and managers should manage. An understanding of followership is vital, if interventions and initiatives in health and safety are to be successful.

In this interactive and fun session Shaun will address the Leadership and Followership theme as it relates to the challenging world of health and safety practice

Macmillan Cancer Support

Statistics now show that one in two people born after 1961 will develop cancer at some point in their lives. Many of us have already been affected either by personal diagnosis , helping to care for someone through their treatment or by supporting a friend or colleague that is affected. Many more of us feel awkward and uncomfortable on dealing with the hidden enemy . Cancer can affect people emotionally, financially and physically . If you are an employer, you’re likely to face managing employees affected by cancer in the workplace. Managers and colleagues might need supporting too.

Macmillan at Work run workshops for employers on how to support your workers who are directly and indirectly affected by cancer.  At this event they will be delivering their taster session which gives you an insight into what you could be doing to support your employees through training, policy development and resources. It will also give you an opportunity to learn more about other services that Macmillan provide.

It’s is a tough subject , parts of the session are emotionally challenging but it is well worth you investing your time to attend.

Whoever you are, you have the power to reduce the impact of cancer for yourself, the people you love and for the world. It’s time to make a personal commitment.

#IAmAndIWill

Sign up to for your free Macmillan at Work tool kit HERE

Sarah Valentine, Eversheds – Managing Contractors and Sub-Contractors

Sarah Valentine from Eversheds Sutherland will presenting this session On Managing Contractors and Sub-Contractors

Managing the safety of contractors is the most common health and safety concern of clients covering site workers, drivers and consultants as well as facilities, security, cleaning and catering. Many large health and safety prosecutions include contractor mismanagement and the HSE often prosecutes numerous duty-holders when the law is breached.

The point of a contractor is that they have capability that your organisation does not have, in which you are not expert. If you need to manage your contractors too closely, the benefits are reduced and the function may as well stay in-house.

This session will cover the balance between contractor autonomy and supervision. Using recent case law to demonstrate mistakes, consequences and punishments, this event will help to either verify your processes are fit for purpose or give you pointers on improvements you need to develop a robust system.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION – AGM Documents

LHSG AGM and Legal Update – 8th April 2019

LHSG AGM 2019 Invitation and Agenda

LHSG AGM 2018 Draft Minutes

LHSG 2019 Constitution

Following the AGM, Kizzy Augustin will be presenting our annual legal update.

Kizzy is the Head of the Heath and Safety Team at Russell Cooke LLP  Russell Cooke are one of the Top 100 law firms in London and if Kizzy’s name sounds familiar it’s because she was voted one of SHP’s most influential; people.

Kizzy’s talk will cover updates on recent cases (including health & safety, fire safety and corporate manslaughter) as well as her personal look into the crystal ball on changes to UK legislation and particular trends on enforcement.

These events are always popular so ensure you book early to avoid disappointment.

The Impact of Accident Investigations on the Safety Cultures of Organisations

John Dillon, Principal Consultant at RMOCAID

John Dillon has been working with RMOCAID in its various guises since 2006 where he has helped organisations to measure and evolve their Safety Culture/ Organisational Culture to be become better places to be, John’s speciality within RMOCAID is accident investigation. It’s this combination of safety culture and investigation where John believes there is huge opportunity for organisations to positively change perceptions of their Culture by changing the language, behaviour and beliefs of those responsible for conducting Investigations.

Through John’s working life he has seen Accident Investigations in all of their forms, from his early days where no investigation took place even after being treated in Hospital for the same injury twice, through to being the accused, the injured party, the witness, the Trade union Steward, the Investigator and finally the Investigation Trainer and Consultant.

Session Content

• Understanding how the culture of our organisation and client organisations affects investigators.
• The impact investigators have on other people’s perception of the current level of safety culture from the way they carry out our role.
• Looking at the cultural and individual reasons why some investigations have a negative impact on perceptions of safety culture.
• Some of the unintended positive outcomes of doing an excellent job whilst carrying out investigations.
• The long-term impact we can have on changing perceptions and culture in our organisations.

Mock Trial – Keeping Fire Safety in Focus.

Crisis Management – Louise Elstow, Fynbos Consulting

Louise is an emergency management consultant with recent experience that includes amongst other things London local authority standardisation work, developing the nationally adopted Rail Incident Care Team deployment manual, assisting Kensington and Chelsea to re-write their emergency response plan, and developing and implementing a business continuity programme across a major private healthcare organisation affected by the London terrorist attacks in 2017. Additionally, she holds the post of Deputy Chair of the Emergency Planning Society’s CBRN Professional Working Group.

Previously she has worked at a major nuclear site and collaborated on a number of EU funded projects. Prior to working in the private sector, Louise worked in emergency management for local government and the voluntary sector.

Louise has a Masters in Risk, Crisis and Disaster Management and a BSc in German, Swedish and Economics. As a 2013 Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Travelling Fellow, Louise spent time in Canada and the USA researching Community Resilience initiatives in urban areas. She is currently undertaking an ESRC funded PhD at Lancaster University; her thesis will consider the making and use of scientific information in contamination events, using Fukushima, Japan as a case study. She has spent over six months in Japan doing fieldwork for her research.

Presentation

Louise will be presenting on how you can support your staff in a crisis.  Looking at a few recent case studies we will investigate the ways in which your staff may be challenged during a crisis and how you as Health and Safety professionals can help them successfully deal with both the challenges of the incident at hand and also the longer term considerations for those staff on their transition back to a new normal working environment.

Mental Health

Martin Lockham – Mates in Mind

Sean Toon – Personal Testimony

Mates in Mind is a UK charity raising awareness and understanding across businesses about mental health. We achieve this by partnering with workplaces and through them, individuals, to understand how, where and when they can get support.  We do this through an evidence-based insight, effective communication and impactful education that improves the capability of businesses and individuals to change the way they work in a joined-up way.

We also bring the industry together to talk openly and address the stigma associated with mental ill-health; and drive improvements that build a preventative approach.

We will also be joined by a guest speaker, Sean Toon, talking of his own personal experience in managing his mental health.

Kevin Hard will be talking about the impact of leadership on safety, wellbeing and performance and how understanding people and why we do what we do is critical in all of this.

We will look at:

• Cultural Safety® as opposed to behaviour based safety (BBS)
  • The difference is people
  • Improving safety and wellbeing cultures though your people
  • Does it work?
• Why we need to understand people and why they do what they do
  • The influence of leadership
  • Taking Shortcuts
  • Psychology of behaviour
• A culture of Care
  • Engagement through reframing to the +ve
  • Empowerment – how to get it right
  • Managers or leaders?
• The impact of engagement on safety, wellbeing and business performance
  • Sharing research into the impact of engagement
  • The Drugs
  • Organisational risk or not knowing your people

Expect a unique and interactive session , and be ready to be pulled in by Kevin’s enthusiasm and energy.

 Kevin Hard is the Business Development Director at OCAID, after proving himself on the global stage he has spent the past 19 years focusing on leadership coaching and mentoring. Kevin has recently published an Organisational Integrated Improvement model based on Leadership, Engagement and Wellbeing (with Nigel Girling) which has been referenced by many organisations including the HSL/HSE at conference. He enjoys understanding how the brain thinks and using his knowledge to challenge the accepted norms.