Meetings and Events

Tim Briggs – Leeds Beckett University Emma Cook - Purely Balanced People Solutions

Owner of Red Alpha Consultancy; a business psychology and safety management consultancy, supporting reliable Human Performance. A Senior Human Factors and Culture Change Specialist with 13 years international experience working in Aviation & Rail within the UK and Middle East. Jodie is a technical expert in the following areas: Human Performance, Systems Thinking, Crew Resource Management, Just Culture, Leadership Development and Safety Culture. Jodie is a thought leader and influencer with an outstanding record for successfully transforming the understanding of incident causation for organisations- to see Human Error as a symptom rather than a cause. Jodie has significant experience of integrating and assessing Human Factors and Human Performance within Aviation, Rail and Nuclear.

Announcing our guest speakers for our annual seminar next week: Duncan Spencer, Head of Advice and Practice at IOSH, Warren Spiers from Spiers Engineering Safety, Adam Phillips from Diphex Solutions Ltd, and Dawn Kenyon from RADCaT. Please join us on Zoom for this event.

Legal Professional Privilege can be an intrinsic and one of the most important protections for companies and individuals facing regulatory investigations or criminal proceedings. Have you heard of it? Do you know what it means? How can it be applied within your business? What does it allow for? What ‘privilege’ is not, and what care should be exercised when considering it?

THE BUILD, BUZZ, BAKE FORMULA Karen J Hewitt, author of "People Power - Transform Your Business In The Era of Safety and Wellbeing" Making Health and Safety Messages Relevant, Engaging and Sticky. The 'Build, Buzz, Bake' Formula, and the principles that underpin it, is the result of her decade of experience of driving cross company engagement in health and safety. Link to the Zoom below:

Usage of Respiratory Protective Devices in a Pandemic, Epidemic or Outbreak of Respiratory Infectious Diseases - Charles Tracey

LOHSG - AGM Preston Marriott Hotel Garstang Road, Broughton, Preston PR3 5JB United Kingdom

Topic: Face Fit Testing

Topic Sleep - Guest Presenter: Anne Cresswell. The benefits of sleep and the effects of sleep deprivation. Understanding sleep cycles. How lifestyle changes can help you get a good night's sleep.

Topic: LOHSG Members Event Roundtable Event: Overcoming Obstacles to Good Mental Health in the Workplace Time: May 18, 2021 18:00 London

Our next members meeting takes place on 20 April at 7pm via Zoom and we welcome our guest speaker, Jo Perruzza. Jo helps organisations to embed Mental Health awareness into their work place, by creating bespoke training programmes and coaching. This will increase your organisations productivity, health and happiness. With a professional background in Mental health Nursing, senior management, coaching and a Mental Health First Aid Instructor Jo delivers expert knowledge and skills for you and your teams. In our meeting, Jo will discuss what she does, Working with You in Mind.

Our guest presenter will be Simon Cassin, Director at OUCH Training Team, who will be discussing values. Simon says “Values are easy, everyone has exactly the same values and always behaves in a way which is commensurate with those common values, WRONG. When we say something is of value what do we mean? Does it mean it always has value and is equally valued by everyone? What if we value a few things and situations occur when we must choose one value over another? As you can see, values can be tricky. In this short presentation I will try and provide a base from which we can build our understanding of values. We will consider the difference between instrumental and final values and briefly consider how an ethical framework can help develop a values based approach to working in a safe and healthy way.”

Webinar: The H&S guide to Communication and Influence. You've probably heard many excuses why people don't do as they are asked and why once your back is turned return to old ways... This Safety PAL (PLAN ACT LEARN) founder Karl Spencer interactive webinar will help you understand why and provide you with some vital tools to help improve communication - Influencing better behaviours.

Topic - Legal Update 2021 - Speaker: Matthew Sulley, Associate for Pinsent Masons LLP

RoSPA’s OSH Policy Adviser, Dr Karen McDonnell

This will be LOHSGs first virtual meeting, the meeting will be to discuss: 1. What presentations/talks members would like to see/hear and topics 2. General H&S forum discussion on members questions 3. Moving the Group forward A further email will be sent to our group members with a link and code to the Zoom meeting.

John Jones (UK Health and Safety Manager) – Westinghouse Springfields Fuels Limited

Dewi-Ap-Thomas (Partner), Weighmans LLP

Karl Tindale (Associate Director H&S), SaferSphere

Company Name: ABC North West Ltd

LOHSG Annual Seminar

Jeremy Evans (Sales Development Manager) SKC Limited - Free for members. Jeremy has worked for SKC Ltd for 14 years and his role is Sales Development Manager. This includes assisting in SKC’s regularly held practical air sampling training courses. He has presented at BOHS regional meetings as well as at a Technical Conference. Jeremy has also presented and exhibited at various local SGUK and NIOSH meetings/events. He has a background in science, with a degree in Biological Sciences, then working as a biochemist followed by over 20 years in various Sales and Quality Management roles with a multinational laboratory chemicals and apparatus supplier before moving to SKC

Sam Duxbury – HSQE Manager - Walter Carefoot & Sons (Construction) Ltd - Free for members. Sam is a construction expert with over 40 years experience having left school and taken up a job as an apprentice Joiner working his way to his current position making the odd mistake along the way.