Wednesday 24th November 2010 - 'Road Safety and Driving at Work'
To coincide with National Road Safety Week this event explored the risks from work-related driving and transport which employers have statutory and common law duties to manage.
Any business can have employees driving whilst at work and encounter moving vehicles in areas where it has responsibility. The outcomes of driving and transport accidents can have very serious impact on individuals and businesses
Presentations were given by:
West Yorkshire Police's Major Collision Enquiry Team on how work-related road traffic accidents are investigated;
Health and Safety Executive covering health and safety legislative duties and good practice for managing work-related transport risks;
West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service giving examples of work-related traffic and transport accidents it has responded to; and
Zurich Municapl Insurance on good practices and systems, particularly where work-related driving is incidental to an employer's main activities.
PowerPoint presentations (PDF file format)
Mark Hemmingway (West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service)
John Micklethwaite (Health and Safety Executive)
Mike Horsfield (Zurich Municipal Insurance)
Wednesday 19th January 2011 - 'Better health at work makes better business sense'
This joint event from Kirklees Council's Better Health at Work team and PROHMS Professional Occupational Health Services explored: -
What better health at work consists of and what the team can offer;
Revisiting successful management of work-related stress;
Postures and productivity; and
Understanding the fit note scheme and making it work for businesses.
Friday 4th March 2011 - "Common sense, common Safety" - exploring Lord Young's report and what it means to businesses
"That's why I asked Lord Young to do this review and put some common sense back into health and safety. And that's exactly what he's done" – Prime Minister David Cameron (October 2010)
This event explored Lord Young's report to Government on health and safety and the compensation through presentations by: -
The group's current chairperson and his throughts on the report;
Federation of Small Businesses offering its perspective of what the report means to employers and businesses, especially the smaller-sized operations; and
Zurich Municpal providing a perspective from the insurance industry, particularly what it means to employers and personal injury claims.
PowerPoint presentations (PDF file format)
Gary Wood (Group's current chairperson)
Lyndsey Whitaker (Federation of Small Businesses)
Mike Horsfield (Zurich Muncipal Insurance)
Wednesday 13th April 2011 - "Managing the risk of slip incidents - take simple measures, don't suffer massive repercussions"
Accounting for over a thirs of all major injury incidents invcolving workers and half of of injury incidents involing the public that are reported to enforcing authorities, slip incidents present significant costs to employers and society, and incalculable suffering to individuals.
Common barriers to addressing slip incidents are the risks not being taken seriously, poor understanding of actual causes, belief incidents are inevitable and poor application of risk management.
Simple, cost effective solutions can reduce slip incidents and these were explored through presentations by:
Kevin Hallas from HSE's Health and Safety Laboratories pedestrian safety unit on the underlying causes of slip incidents and how these can be effectively managed; and
Gary Wood - the group's chairperson - on simple application of the HSE's Slip Assessment Tool in designing out slip incidents.
The event was preceeded by the group's annual general meeting.
PowerPoint presentations (in PDF file format)
