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“ The IOSH Food and Drink Awards are about sharing ideas that have made a real improvement to the way people work. This year’s winner shows how innovations to machinery, procedures or systems can reduce ill health – and wasted time and money ”
Neil Catton, IOSH Food and Drink Group Chair, Maintenance Online
“ Wellbeing programmes are a great way for businesses to make sure employees achieve a better work–life balance – helping to make staff more resilient and productive ”
Dr Luise Vassie, IOSH Policy Executive Director, HR Director
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This year, members had hundreds of opportunities to network and discuss professional issues, in person or online
More than 2,500 delegates and visitors from around the world came to IOSH 2011, our flagship conference and exhibition. Held this year at ExCeL in London, the event was chaired by BBC Today programme broadcaster Justin Webb and brought together 55 speakers ranging from HSE Chair Judith Hackitt CBE talking about the impact of the government-commissioned review of health and safety, to Chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority John Armitt leading a series of sessions from senior professionals on health and safety at the London 2012 Games. Topics went to the heart of today’s professional issues – workplace wellbeing and the GP’s fit note, the ramifications of the Corporate Manslaughter Act, and how
< Go Backthe public sector maintains health and safety in the face of significant cutbacks
Senior managers from Network Rail, the Office of Rail Regulation, Docklands Light Railway and Tube Lines were among the speakers at the IOSH Rail Industry Conference. Cultural change and behavioural safety strategies were discussed at what has now become the leading annual rail safety conference in the UK
We once more staged the National Safety Symposium, our event for professionals working in local authorities and the healthcare, education and waste sectors. The symposium covered areas from substance and alcohol abuse to handling violent assaults on ambulance staff, and featured case studies from the Natural History
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Museum and the Glastonbury Festival. And as public spending cuts started to take their toll in 2011, we began planning the next symposium to target the specific issues facing members struggling to keep quality services going with diminishing budgets
Our members could choose from more than 80 local or sector-specific events over the year, including technical seminars, webinars, mock trials and site tours
www.iosh.co.uk continues to be an important information and networking hub. Nearly 400,000 people visited the IOSH website this year, looking at almost 6 million pages. Seventy per cent of our website users came to the site more than once. Around 67,000 people visited our forums and contributed more than 31,000 posts to a huge range of discussions. Online innovations this year included new Council election forums where
< Go Backcandidates took questions from voting members, and discussion forums for our network committees
We co-hosted the first national health and safety conference in Romania. The event, organised with the Romanian Association of Safety and Health at Work in Bucharest, attracted 300 delegates and the support of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work and the Romanian Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Protection. A new series of codes of practice will be published on the back of the conference
IOSH presented or was represented at events in Abu Dhabi, Astana, Baltimore, Barcelona, Beijing, Brussels, Bucharest, Dubai, Geneva, Halifax (Canada), Hong Kong, Melbourne, Milan, Muscat, Riyadh, Rome and Struga. We hosted delegations from Australia, The Netherlands and Turkey
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We took valuable health and safety messages to a range of diverse communities
Our Thames Valley Branch worked with the locally based National Film and Television School to deliver its award for safety planning for student film productions – its work to support students for the fourth year running was in turn recognised by the first IOSH President’s Alliance Award
A new initiative, Safe Highlander, was aimed at nearly 2,000 Year 7 schoolchildren in the Scottish Highlands. Set up by the IOSH Inverness District, the 10-day event featured a mock-up of a building site, to show children real hazards in a controlled environment
< Go BackMore than 6,000 teachers and trainers have now successfully applied to download our free Workplace Hazard Awareness Course, designed to introduce students and apprentices to health and safety basics. The interactive course, with more than 20 activities, has been shortlisted for an award at the World Congress on Safety and Health at Work
