This year the SOHSA annual conference will focus on safely managing the maintenance activities that affect every workplace – whether it be servicing plant or equipment, contractors coming on site, the installation of new equipment or significant redevelopment works – we will examine the pit-falls, the myths and what does happen when it “all goes wrong”.

Promoting the Safe Maintenance Campaign of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OHSA), the conference shall focus on the effective management of maintenance tasks and projects.

Expert speakers will discuss “what goes wrong and why” and how effective preventative maintenance benefits both incident reduction and reduced costs. We will see how Meadowhall Shopping Centre, a large retailing organisation, controls their contractors while still carrying out business as usual - operating one of the busiest shopping complexes in Europe. The conference will also consider the unknown and the need for effective dynamic risk control to support safe systems for maintenance teams to operate with when the going gets tough.

The day will help delegates understand the systems needed to effectively control and maintain their facilities, processes and equipment and provide tools and practical advice for effective operation.

Conference Speakers

• Nicholas Tosney, HM Inspector of Health and Safety, Health and Safety Executive
• Dr John Herbert, Managing Director, Peak HSE Ltd
• Sarah Taylor, Legal Director, Pinsent Masons LLP
• Alison Hoyes, Health and Safety Manager, Transition International Ltd
• Steve Batty, Facilities Director, Meadowhall Shopping Centre
• Chris Jerman, Corporate Safety Manager, John Lewis Partnership

Further Information

Find out more from the links below:

• Flyer and Booking Form
• Speaker Information
• Sponsors
• Exhibition
• Campaign Resources

Conference Sponsors

The 2011 SOHSA Conference is kindly sponsored by: