Conference Day Two: 24th September 2009

08:30 Registration And Coffee

09:00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks

Stephen O’Neill
Head of Health and Safety
ASSOCIATION OF ELECTRICITY PRODUCERS

09:15 Keynote Address: Health And Safety In The 21st Century - Everyone Has A Role To Play

HSE has recently published a new strategy which makes clear that its roles include advice, guidance, inspection, investigation and enforcement but not management of health and safety. Management, and leadership, is down to employers and those who create the risks.

Gordon MacDonald
Director
Hazardous Installations, Health and Safety Executive

10:00 Addressing The Generic Plant Safety And Integrity Issues Associated With Operating Ageing Coal Generation Plant - GENSIP The UK Industry Response

  • Develop a strategic framework to improve the management of plant integrity of ageing coal plant
  • Produce technical solutions to major industry wide safety and integrity issues which meet legislative and regulatory objectives in a proportionate and cost effective manner
  • Provide a vehicle for coal plant operators to discuss and negotiate collectively on sector-level plant integrity issues with the HSE

Peter Emery
Production Director DRAX POWER
Director of the AEP and member of the UK COAL GENERATOR'S FORUM

10:45 Morning Coffee And Networking Break

11:15 Improve Communication To The Board On The Subject Of Plant Health By Addressing Your Leading Indicators

  • Translate an imperative aspect of the Baker report into a useful tool for your business
  • Ensure transparency without complications by prioritising your leading indicators
  • Streamline your plant assessments by creating a more manageable safety assessment system

Mike Evans
Head of Technology
RWE NPOWER

12:00 Optimise The Practical Application Of Procedures By Ensuring Full Comprehension Of The Working Practices Of Contractors

  • Hear about the specific issues of ensuring that your contractors are putting safety processes into practice
  • Gain an understanding of the complications that can arise without an inclusive implementation strategy
  • Guarantee your process safety culture is reinforced at all levels by understanding key drivers

Stephen O’Neill
Head of Health and Safety
ASSOCIATION OF ELECTRICITY PRODUCERS

12:45 Networking Lunch

13:45 Learn From Advances In Other Sectors: Wind Power Generation

  • Certify the level of inclusiveness of your risk assessments in this case study from the renewable energy sector
  • Understand how risk assessments can be individually adapted to account for a complex process carried out at height
  • Ascertain the best way to utilise risk assessments to improve your working at height programme and re-address the need to scale equipment

Jan Norholm
Head of HSE
VATTENFALL VINDKRAFT A/S

14:30 Learn From A Leader In The Nuclear Sector In The Application Of A Learning Model To Improve HSE Performance

  • Achieve accident resilience within your organisation by hearing from a leading offshore operator about their effective implementation of process safety techniques
  • Ensure your processes are effectively monitored and establish how benchmarking can be used to focus improvements
  • Hear how an integrated management approach linked through a multilayer process can improve HSE performance

Dale Oliver
Head of Assurance
MAGNOX NORTHSITES

15:15 Afternoon Tea And Networking Break

15:45 Achieving Ultimate Efficiency In Your Process Safety System Through Effective Process Management

  • Effectively streamline your systems across your plant by implementing this management tool
  • Sustain process efficiency whilst maintaining high levels of safety through the assessment of key working practices
  • Reduce the impact of major accident hazards in a multifaceted organisation through adequate supervision of the processes

Dave Miller
Safety Branch Manager
BRITISH ENERGY

16:30 Safety In The Nuclear Sector: Ensure You Comply With UK Health And Safety Legislation And Your Nuclear Site License Through The Application Of An Auditable And Transparent System That Demonstrates Nuclear Safety

  • Protect the safety of your personnel and the wider public with compliant safety systems
  • Increase the effectiveness of your inspections by ensuring transparency and challenge in your processes
  • Engage with your regulator to secure the effectiveness of proposed strategies and modifications.

Colin Patchett
Deputy Chief Inspector, Nuclear Inspectorate Division
HEALTH AND SAFETY EXECUTIVE

17:15 Chairman’s Closing Remarks

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