Preview 2019: OH Legal & Professional Update

Wednesday 6 February 2019, Central London

Are you prepared for 2019? Do you know the legal and professional developments that will be affecting your work in occupational health over the next 12 months?

This is one of our most popular annual events, attracting delegates from the UK and overseas who wish to keep up to date with all of the most recent changes in OH law and practice.

 

Chaired by: Dr John Ballard, editor of Occupational Health [at Work]
Legal updates: Professor Diana Kloss, Nick Hanning and Rebecca Tuck

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Programme

9.00

Registration and coffee

9.20

Welcome and introduction
Dr John Ballard, Occupational Health [at Work]

9.30

The state of occupational health
Dr John Ballard, Occupational Health [at Work]

  • Pay & benefits – are you getting enough?
  • What’s happening to occupational health?

LEGAL UPDATE PART 1

9.45

Disability discrimination law update
Rebecca Tuck, barrister

  • Discrimination arising from disability
  • Determining disability, and the importance of medical
    evidence
     Whose responsibility?
     Durham and Darlington NHS v Dr E Jackson
     Agency workers
  • Other key cases
10.30

Coffee

OH PRACTICE PART 1

10.50

Professional competence
Mandy Murphy and Dr Ali Hashtroudi,
National School of Occupational Health

  • Developing professional competence
     Educating OH nurses
     OH doctors – state of play
     Other OH professionals
  • Working with the regulators (NMC/GMC), the Faculty
    of Occupational Medicine (FOM) and Faculty of
    Occupational Health Nursing (FOHN)
  • Timescales and implications for revalidation

LEGAL UPDATE PART 2

11.35

Ethical practice
Prof Diana Kloss, with an introduction from FOM
ethics chair, Dr Steve Boorman

  • The FOM’s guidance on ethics for OH practice
     What’s new?
     Status of the guidance
  • Informed consent and the revised GMC guidance
  • GDPR update – recent developments in data protection
  • Whistleblowing malpractice
  • Disclosing on grounds of safety
12.25

Ethics Q&A
Your chance to ask about the implications of the new
FOM guidance with Diana Kloss and Steve Boorman

12.45

Lunch

OH PRACTICE PART 2

13.50

Workplace wellbeing – measuring impact at work
Michael Whitmore, RAND Europe

  • Does measurement matter in workplace health
    settings?
  • What to consider and when
  • Case study examples evidencing approaches to
    workplace health

LEGAL UPDATE PART 3

14.35

Legal hot topics: stress, mental health
and sexual harassment
Nick Hanning, Anthony Gold Solicitors

  • Stress – where are we now?
  • 24/7 working – whose responsibility?
  • Sexual harassment
  • Bullying
  • Civil Liability Bill – implications for personal injury
    claims at work
15.10

Tea

15.30

Brexit – what it will mean
for OH law
Prof Diana Kloss, barrister

  • What will happen to UK law based on EU Directives
    and Regulations?
  • The European Courts
  • Recruiting OH workers from the EU
15.55

General legal Q&A
Your chance to put your legal questions to our experts,
Prof Diana Kloss and Nick Hanning

16.15

Close of day

Benefits of attending

You will gain:

  • An up-to-the-minute analysis of the implications of the new FOM ethics guidance and of Brexit on OH law
  • A vital update on legislation and recent case law taking you through the complexities of informed consent, disability discrimination, stress, mental health, harassment and other hot
    topics – you’ll be sure you know your obligations, and how to meet them
  • Knowledge of the legal dos and don’ts in some of the most difficult areas affecting OH professionals’ practice
  • An update on key professional practice issues, focusing on professional competence
  • The opportunity to learn how to measure the impact of workplace wellbeing – and to how to avoid the pitfalls
  • A chance to network with speakers and other delegates

This event is designed for:

• OH professionals and allied health professionals

• HR managers

• H&S practitioners

• Case managers

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