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Health @ Work Summit 2008
Bringing HR, Occupational Health and Health and Safety together to Promote a Healthy Workforce
Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th June 2008
Millennium Gloucester Hotel, London, SW7 4LH
Summary
Symposium Events' Annual Health @ Work Summit 2008 is firmly established as the UK 's premier conference on health in the workplace. Now in its 3rd year, this seminal event boasts two days of innovative case studies, helping you to establish clear solutions to the challenges that face your organisation with regards to the health and wellbeing of your employees; from the assessment of an employee's health before a problem arises, through to gaining management and employee buy-in for your Health Scheme.
Incorporating details of the latest legislative changes and reports affecting those responsible for health at work, eight comprehensive streams tackling the health challenges that face your organisation on a daily basis and Symposium Events' unique interactive Knowledge Share and Networking session, the Health @ Work Summit 2008 is the definitive event for HR, Health and Safety and Occupational Health professionals.
Background
With attitudes to work-life balance continuing to evolve and current state benefits legislation bringing increasing numbers of UK employees back into the workplace, the pressure on employers to provide a supportive and healthy working environment has never been greater.
According to a recent study by Ipsos MORI, almost ¼ of UK employers are unsure of how to better the health and wellbeing of their employees. This figure is particularly shocking as, according to the Confederation of British Industry, sickness absence costs UK businesses around £ 12.2 billion a year. The research begs the question, what can organisations do to improve the health and wellbeing of their employees?
Dame Carol Black's Call for Evidence report, which is due to be published in the next couple of months, is expected to be the first step towards a clearer understanding of the health of Britain's working age population, but the responsibility of responding to this evidence still lies in the hands of employers.
Symposium Events' 3rd annual Health @ Work Summit 2008 will provide you with the necessary tools to tackle the health and wellbeing challenges that face your organisation and help you develop a united front internally, to provide efficient, cost-effective and sustainable support to each and every one of your employees.
Programme Highlights
- Creating a positive approach to health assessment: Encouraging a shift in focus from incapacity to capacity
- Supporting employees through the challenges of healthy living
- Overcoming employee attitudes to mental health
- Providing prompt and effective treatment of Musculoskeletal Disorders
- Involving line managers in every aspect of your health policy
- Investigating the causes of work-related absence
- Determining the causes of work based stress
- Defining the role of health and HR in your business' continuity plan
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You will also have the opportunity to attend four out of eight detailed streams on:
- Benefits & Rewards
- Occupational Health
- Absence Management
- Health Insurance
- Healthy Lifestyle
- Health and Safety
- Mental Health
- Musculoskeletal Disorders
Speakers
Chairs:
- Dr Mike Goldsmith - Executive Chairman, Medigold Occupational Health
- Sheila Pantry - Editor, Occupational Health Word
Keynote Speaker:
- Dame Carol Black - National Director for Health and Work , Health, Work and Wellbeing
Confirmed Speakers:
- PricewaterhouseCoopers - Vicki Broadhurst, Health Matters Manager
- The Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education - Peter Barnard, Registrar
- City of York Council - Stephen Forrest, Former Business Development Manager (HR)
- Bradford & Bingley - John Hamilton, Head of Group Health and Safety
- HSE - Mark Dempsey, Senior Policy Advisor (Health, Work and Sickness Absence)
- Royal Mail - Dr Su Wang, Group Head of Health
- Ceva Logistics - John Paterson, HR Director
- East Sussex County Council - Leatham Green, Assistant Director, Personnel and Training
- Welsh Assembly Government - Peter Kennedy, Head of HR
- Cancer Research UK - Paul Chadwick, Head of Reward and Recognition
- Wilson James - Gemma Quirke, HR Director
- E.ON - Louise Boston, Occupational Health Manager
- GlaxoSmithKline - Adrian Chojnacki, Vice President of Employee Health UK
- British Sugar - Ash Solanki, Safety and Environment Manager
- Park Health - Dr Chris Pugh, Specialist in Occupational Medicine
- Boots - Richard Ellis, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility
- Unum - Andrew Potterton, Chiel Medical Underwriter
- Norwich Union - Dr Johnathan Cleeland, Medical Director and Consultant Occupational Physician
- IPRS - David Bingham, Chief Executive
- Centrica - Martyn Davidson, Group Head of Occupational Health
- Association of British Insurers - Matthew Young, Policy Adviser,Liability and Occupational Health
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