Health and Safety After the Löfstedt Review (Manchester)

Confirmed Speakers Include:

• Professor Ragnar Löfstedt, Author of the Löfstedt Review
• Alison Fryatt, Team Leader, Health & Safety Sponsorship Team, Health & Wellbeing Directorate, DWP
• Simon Topman, CEO, ACME Whistles & Red Tape Challenge Champion (enforcement)

The Context:

The Löfstedt Review fits into wider Government measures to overhaul what it sees as a ‘health and safety culture’ in this country. While it concludes that “there is no evidence for radically altering current health and safety legislation”, it nevertheless makes 26 recommendations for change, 6 of which the Government have highlighted as priorities. What recommendations does the review make, how will the Government go about implementing them and what sort of an impact will they have?

Key Issues to be Addresses Include:

• What are the Löfstedt Review's key recommendations?
• How are the HSE and the Government going about implementing them?
• What impact will the changes have on employers?
• What impact will the changes have on health and safety professionals?
• Will enforcement of legislation become more consistent as the HSE starts to ‘direct all local authority health and safety inspection and enforcement activity’?
• How can Professor Löfstedt’s conclusion that the “problem lies less with the regulations themselves and more with the way they are interpreted and applied” be further addressed?

The Event:

Participants in the morning policy session will be briefed about and discuss the recommendations, implementation and impact of the Löfstedt Review. The afternoon application and enforcement session will examine how it can be ensured that health and safety legislation is properly applied and enforcement made more consistent. Delegates will have the opportunity to engage with the expert panel throughout.

Who Should Attend?

Delegates will be drawn from all those with an interest in health & safety, including those with specific responsibility for health & safety in their organisation, employers, HR managers, inspectors, the legal and insurance sector, elected members, trade unions, and the third sector.