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IOSH 10 conference – Health and safety: Making the case

The annual IOSH conference, the most comprehensive health and safety conference in the UK, returns in 2010 to The Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre, Glasgow. Packed with hours of content delivered by world-renowned speakers, the conference will ensure attendees leave the event fully up-to-date with the latest industry developments.

 

Taking place from 24 – 25 March 2010 and running in conjunction with an extensive exhibition, the programme will deliver informative sessions to help health and safety practitioners protect their budgets in the global economic downturn, secure senior management engagement and demonstrate where health and safety adds value to their organisations.

 

News broadcaster Gavin Esler will chair the conference and numerous industry-leading speakers will deliver topical and informative sessions. Highlights include:

 

• Judith Hackitt CBE, Chair, Health and Safety Executive
• James Clappison MP, Shadow Minister for Work and Pensions
• Elaine Dorward-King, Global Head of Health, Safety and Environment, Rio Tinto
• Tim Roberts, Head of Health and Safety, Glastonbury Festival
• Inder Poonaji, Head of Health, Safety and Environment, Nestlé UK
• Alan Barlow, Head of Health and Safety, The Natural History Museum
• Alison Reid-Wright, Health and Safety Manager, Ofcom

 

Adrian Newton, Portfolio Director for Safety and Building Management at UBM Live, organisers of IOSH 10, said: “The line-up at the IOSH 10 conference is outstanding and we are excited to welcome so many renowned health and safety professionals to the event. We regularly communicate with our audiences and it is abundantly clear that the IOSH conference is a key date in their calenders. We aim to deliver the finest content possible to ensure they are hearing from the right people about the most current topics. We feel we have achieved it again this year and we are in no doubt that our visitors will leave the event with all the latest information.”

 

John Holden, the President of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), said: “IOSH 10 provides a terrific platform to show the world some of the excellent work that health and safety professionals do. Through our efforts, lives are saved and stopped from suffering debilitating ill-health everyday. However, the fact that 180 people died, and over 2 million suffered ill-health, shows that there’s still a lot of work to do, and conferences like IOSH 10 provide an opportunity for us to share life-saving and ill-health preventing best practices.”

 

The conference will offer four different tracks throughout the two-day event to provide delegates with a varied programme and ensure they walk away with answers to the most pressing issues facing health and safety practitioners today. The four tracks are:

 

• Legal and regulatory compliance
• Making business sense
• Safer working environments
• Thinking ahead

 

These will be supported by keynote addresses, interviews and discussions before and after the track sessions.

 

An extensive exhibition will be running alongside the conference to offer visitors the opportunity to source solutions from a comprehensive cross section of health and safety manufacturers, distributors and suppliers.

 

For companies interested in exhibiting, please contact Dominic Pinfold on +44 (0)20 7921 8183 or email dominic.pinfold@ubm.com.

 

For further information on the exhibition, its features or to register for a conference delegate pass, please visit www.ioshconference.co.uk.