Workplace Health 2022

Programme

Day 1:

Tuesday 20 September 2022

 

8.45

Registration & coffee

9.00

Welcome & introduction

Dr John Ballard, Occupational Health [at Work]

• Hot topics in OH practice

COVID-19

9.20

COVID-19: Planning ahead for winter22/23

Dr Anne de Bono, University of Leicester Hospital Trust

• What can we expect?
• Ongoing infection control & monitoring
• Managing post-COVID syndrome (‘long COVID’)
• Should we be strengthening our plans for influenza?

10.05

Colt Foundation Keynote: COVID-19 – its lasting impact on mental health and wellbeing

Prof Richard Bentall, COVID-19 Psychological research consortium, University of Sheffield

• Mental health impact of the pandemic on working-age people
• Beliefs
• Behavioural aspects
• Can we be better prepared for future pandemics?

10.50

Coffee & exhibition

NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES

11.30

Keynote 2: Preventing non-communicable diseases

Christine Hancock, C3 Collaborating for Health

• Impact of non-communicable diseases on society and work
• Role of the workplace in preventing NCDs
• Evidence base
• Business case

12.15

Returning to work following cancer

Stephen Bevan, Institute for Employment Studies

• Prevalence among working age people
• Obstacles to returning to work
• Why OH can do better

13.00

Lunch & exhibition

HEALTH AT WORK

13.55

Shiftwork, health and safety

Dr Philip Tucker, Swansea University

• Long-term impact of shiftwork on health
• Short-term risks to safe working
• Health surveillance
• Work design and other interventions

LEGAL UPDATE

14.40

Legal hot topics

Prof Diana Kloss, barrister

• COVID update
• Holiday pay
• Menopause and autistic spectrum as disabilities
• Equality Act and gender reassignment
• Other hot topics

15.25

Tea and exhibition

15.50

Legal Q&A

CASE STUDY & PROFESSIONAL BRIEFINGS

16.10

The positive impact of COVID: The BBC, a global case study

Dr Clare Fernandes, BBC

• OH and multidisciplinary team working
• The role of the employer in preventing poor health
• Awareness of disability

16.55

What matters to you in OH practice? Five-minute professional 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!
• Click here for more information on how to take part. Get chosen to present a five minute briefing session, and you can attend day one FREE!

17.35

End of day one

 

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Day 2:

Wednesday 21 September 2022

 

8.00

Registration

8.05

Breakfast briefing: Employment tribunals

Harry Sherrard, Sherrards Employment Law Solicitors

OH PRACTICE AND MANAGEMENT

9.00

Work addiction

Annika Lindberg, chartered counselling psychologist

• Healthy commitment or damaging addiction?
• Impact on work and the individual
• Six criteria for assessing work addiction
• Prevention and intervention
• Clinical treatment

9.45

Making OH software management systems work for you

Dr Steve Boorman, consultant occupational physician

• Understanding the OH management system
• Data protection compliance
• Making the most of your data
• Using OH software to enhance the quality of your service

10.30

Coffee and exhibition

CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN OH

10.55

Mental health: work, absence and presenteeism

Prof Max Henderson, University of Leeds

• The relationship between stress, mental health, absence and presenteeism
• Individual risk factors
• Can we measure presenteeism and how can we manage it?
• What works at work and what to avoid?

11.40

Obesity and work

Jane DeVille-Almond, British Obesity Society

• Why is obesity a workplace issue?
• Challenging stigma – in healthcare and in work
• Healthy conversations – how to discuss obesity in an OH consultation
• What works?

12.20

Disability, technology and employment

Mark Howard, Microlink

• Are we failing employees and job applicants?
• Can we do better?
• Advances in technology

13.05

Lunch and exhibition

13.55

Welcome to the afternoon

14.05

Asthma health surveillance and spirometry

Prof David Fishwick, University of Sheffield

• Successful history taking
• Serial peak flow analysis
• Spirometry – getting it right
• Optimising the interpretation of results

14.50

The Smart return to work plan

Prof Kim Burton, OH Researcher

• Why we need a ‘smart’ RTW plan
• Determining ‘work-relevant’ ill-health symptoms
• Using biopsychosocial principles to inform the plan
• Bringing all sides on board

15.45

Close of day two