Workplace Health 2018

Programme

DAY ONE:

Tuesday 25 September 2018

8.45

Registration and coffee

9.00

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

THE STATE OF OH

9.15

Improving lives: is the government vision feasible?
Richard Cienciala, Joint DHSC/DWP Work and Health Unit

• Work as a Health Outcome
• What’s next for the fit note?
• Reform of OH and learning from Fit for Work

9.40

Transforming OH
Dr Paul Litchfield, What Works Centre for Wellbeing

• OH in the changing world of work
• Replacing a decayed structure with an evidence-based framework
• Shaping the value proposition
• Positioning OH at the heart of the business

10.05

The state of OH nursing: the new faculty
Christina Butterworth, Faculty of Occupational Health Nursing

• Faculty of Occupational Health Nursing (FOHN) – open for
  business
• What it will mean for the profession
•  Recruiting and training more nurses into OH

10.30

Roundtable Q&A

10.45

Coffee and exhibition

11.25

GDPR, consent, confidentiality & other hot topics
Prof Diana Kloss, barrister

• What difference has the GDPR made?
• Do’s and don’ts for OH data protection
• Ensuring consent is explicit, ethical and lawful
• Revised FOM ethics guidance
• Establishing if an employee is disabled
• Other hot legal issues

12.15

Legal Q&A

12.30

Lunch and exhibition

HEALTH AT WORK

13.30

Colt Foundation Keynote 1: Work, health and inequality
Prof Tarani Chandola, University of Manchester

• Socioeconomic and occupational determinants of health and
  illness
• Is any job better than no job?
• New forms of employment relations and health
• Closing the disability employment gap – implications for health and wellbeing

14.15

Shiftwork and cancer
Prof Damien McElvenny, Institute of Occupational Medicine

• Evidence – risk factors and biological mechanism
• Scale of risk
• Preventive action and the role of OH

15.00

Tea and exhibition

15.25

Neurodiversity at work
Dr Blandina Blackburn, Association of National Health Occupational Physicians

• Why do we talk about ‘neurodiversity’?
• Understanding the key types of neurodiversity in the context of work
• Disclosure
• Role of OH
• Latest guidance and support

15.55

Inspecting for health: what the HSE is looking for
Kerry Trow, HSE

• HSE inspectors – how they operate
• Inspecting for health risks
•  Implications of HSE enforcement related to OH

16.40

What matters to you in OH practice?
Five-minute briefing sessions

• Your chance to highlight some work that has helped improve health in your workplace, or share a great new idea – but you’ve only got FIVE minutes and 20 slides to do it!If you are interested in presenting a five-minute briefing, you can benefit from a special booking offer. Find out more here

17.35

End of first day

 

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DAY TWO:

Wednesday 26 September 2018

8.00

Breakfast briefing: Occupational asthma – health surveillance and spirometry
Dr Lisa Bradshaw, Jade Sumner and Alison Codling, HSE

8.40

Registration and coffee

9.00

Welcome and introduction

FITNESS FOR WORK

9.10

Fatigue in safety critical work
Dr Tim Stevenson, The Healthy Company

• Understanding the risk in aviation and other safety-critical arenas
• Mitigation strategies
• Monitoring alertness
• Latest research

9.55

Fatigue in healthcare: including ramifications of the Hadiza Bawa-Garba case
Dr Paul McGovern, Medigold

• Medical errors through fatigue
• A strategic approach to reducing risk from fatigue
• Cultural change and fatigue management

10.35

Fitness for work – legal compliance
Nick Hanning, Dutton Gregory LLP

• Establishing that workers are fit for work – a just and reasonable approach
•  What if they are no longer fit for work?
•  Substance misuse

11.25

Coffee and exhibition

11.55

Colt Foundation Keynote 2: Longer working lives – interventions to promote healthier working longer
Prof Karen Walker-Bone, Arthritis Research UK/MRC Centre for Musculoskeletal Health and Work

• Facilitating longer, healthier working lives
• Improving work ability and resilience
• Influencing retirement decisions

ORGANISATIONAL CASE STUDY

12.40

25 years of support for workers with drug & alcohol addiction at TfL
Nick Shields, Transport for London

• How it works
•  Success stories – and where it can go wrong
• Return on investment

13.15

Lunch and exhibition

14.15

Introduction to afternoon

WORKSHOP SESSION

14.25

Better OH consultations: an afternoon workshop
Alan Dovey/Sharon Wilday, Janet Patterson and Diana Kloss

• An interactive session which looks at improving OH consultations, providing an opportunity to learn techniques to handle sensitive conversations either face to face or on the telephone, and to ensure that the resulting OH referrals and reports are legally defensible.

16.15

Close of seminar