Programme
- Day 1:
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Tuesday 19 November 2024
- 8.45
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Registration & coffee
- 9.00
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Introduction and OH hot topics
Dr John Ballard, Occupational Health [at Work]
MENTAL HEALTH & WELLBEING
- 9.15
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Supporting workers through challenging events
Alan Dovey, consultant cognitive behavioural psychotherapist
- Understanding adjustment disorder, secondary traumatic stress
and PTSD- Prevalence, risk factors, signs and symptoms
- Single and chronic exposure
- Maladaptive coping
- Interventions, prevention and recommendations
- Understanding adjustment disorder, secondary traumatic stress
- 10.00
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Wellbeing: organisational interventions that work
Dr Paul Litchfield, ITV and Compass Group
- Understanding the organisation, work and the worker
- Evidence-based interventions
- Using a framework for action
- Evaluating impact and sustaining improvement
- 10.40
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Coffee & exhibition
- 11.20
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Mental health and the law
Prof Diana Kloss, barrister
- Health and Safety at Work etc Act
- Equality Act
- Definition of disability: stress and neurodiversity
- Employer’s actual/constructive knowledge and duty of care
- Harassment
- 12.10
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Legal Q&A
- 12.25
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder – employment implications
Prof Almuth McDowall, Birbeck University of London
- What is ADHD?
- Diagnosis/under-diagnosis
- ADHD strengths and challenges at work
- Workplace needs and reasonable adjustments
- Coaching
- 13.10
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Lunch & exhibition
- 14.05
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Supporting workers with drug and alcohol addictions
Annika Lindberg, chartered counselling psychologist
- Understanding addiction
- Alcohol/drug addiction and work
- What works for rehab
- Referring from OH
- 14.45
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Case study: Addiction policies for support and testing
Dr CJ Grobler, Jaguar Land Rover
- Why do employers need testing and support policies?
- What to include?
- Implementing new or updated policies
- Outcomes
- 15.25
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Tea and exhibition
- 15.50
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Moral injury in healthcare workers
Dr Danielle Lamb, University College London
- Understanding moral injury
- Health outcomes and burnout
- Risk factors
- Prevention – and relevance to other sectors
- 16.30
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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!
- 17.30
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End of day one
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- Day 2:
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Wednesday 20 November 2024
- 8.00
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Registration
- 8.05
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Breakfast briefing: Managing Long COVID and work
Dr Clare Rayner, occupational medicine consultant
- Lived experience
- Advising employees and managers
- 8.40
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Registration and coffee
- 8.55
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Welcome
- 9.00
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Colt Foundation keynote lecture: Importance of research for OH practitioners
Prof Ira Madan, consultant in occupational medicine
- How and why practitioners should get involved
- How OH clinicians can help make research relevant to them
- How to access the latest research
DISABILITY AND WORK
- 9.50
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Supporting disabled people into work
Meghan Reed, Evenbreak
- Top 3 barriers disabled people face job searching
- Adjustments at recruitment and beyond
- Role of occupational health
- 10.30
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Coffee and exhibition
- 11.00
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Disability and the law
Emily Yeardley, Couchman Hanson
- Employers’ duties
- S.15: discrimination arising from disability
- Role of medical evidence and of OH
- What makes an adjustment reasonable?
- Key developments in case law
- Menopause and equalities legislation
OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES
- 11.50
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Occupational health reporting networks
Dr Melanie Carder, University of Manchester
- How the schemes work and can help OH practice
- How to get involved
- Trends in occupational disease
- 12.20
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Managing musculoskeletal pain and work
Dr Nadia Sheikh, Health Partners
- Causes and work implications
- Biopsychosocial components
- Prevention: what works
- Return to work and job retention
- 13.00
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Lunch and exhibition
- 13.50
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Welcome to the afternoon
OH TECHNOLOGY
- 14.00
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Wearable exposure monitoring technology
Alex Wilson, Johnson Matthey and BOHS
- Developments in wearable technology
- Applications
- Evidence of benefits
- Downsides
- Sense check on exposure risk prevention
OH MANAGEMENT & PRACTICE
- 14.45
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Managing difficult issues in OH
Susan Gee, Yorkshire Water, Dr Clare Fernandes, BBC and Prof Diana Kloss, barrister
- Our experts present a selection of complex cases and
scenarios with clinical, ethical, or management issues, and
provide guidance on how these can best be managed.
- Our experts present a selection of complex cases and
- 15.30
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OH pay & benefits
Dr John Ballard, Occupational Health [at Work]
- Findings from the 2024 Occupational Health [at Work] survey
on pay growth by sector, benefits and working time
- Findings from the 2024 Occupational Health [at Work] survey
- 15.55
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Final questions
- 16.00
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Close of day two
Benefits of attending
This two day seminar offers a fantastic opportunity to update your OH expertise, plus plenty of opportunities to network – our exhibition and at our conference dinner.
How will attending this event benefit you?
You will gain:
- An understanding of the importance of research for OH practitioners and why you should get involved – in our Colt Foundation Keynote Lecture
- Best practice advice on some of the most significant mental health issues in the workplace, including supporting employees in challenging times, understanding moral injury, and managing ADHD, drug and alcohol addictions and wellbeing interventions
- Practical guidance on supporting disabled people into work
- Advice on how to manage difficult issues as three experts explain their approaches to complex cases and dilemmas
- Expert insight into the latest technological developments in wearable monitoring equipment and their OH implications
- An up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest developments in OH law, including a closer look at mental health and disability law
- An update on the latest developments in OH and much more!
This seminar is designed for:
- OH professionals from the UK, Ireland and overseas
- HR managers
- Allied health professionals
Present a five-minute briefing session and attend day one FREE!
Would you like to present a new idea that has helped improve health in your workplace? Present a 5 minute presentation and attend day one for FREE! Showcase an OH intervention, discuss a dilemma in OH practice or present the key findings of some research.
Challenge or celebrate what you’ve been doing in OH in 5 minutes & 20 slides! For more information on how you can take part, click here: https://www.atworkpartnership.co.uk/workplace-health-5-minute-presentations
About the venue
This year’s conference will be held at the Chesford Grange Hotel in Warwickshire. Set in the beautiful countryside of Warwickshire, the hotel has been refurbished in the last few years and now has upgraded events and room facilities.
The hotel offers free car parking for those wishing to drive, but also has good train links via Warwick station (direct trains from London Marylebone station) or Kenilworth station.
Accommodation can be booked with us via the booking link below.
Conference dinner
Network and chat with fellow delegates and speakers in a relaxed atmosphere at our conference dinner at 7.30pm on Tuesday 19 November 2024. Our entertainment will add a sparkle to the evening! Book your place at the conference dinner at the booking links below.
Join us at Workplace Health 2024 – Book your conference place and accommodation now to avoid disappointment!
