This talk will show you how working together, businesses can accelerate improvement, reduce costs, and use their collective influence to drive better products from suppliers to reduce hand-arm vibration risk.

Incidents, hazards, risks, audits and corrective actions do not exist in isolation. However, in many organisations, the systems and information used to manage them remain disconnected, making it difficult to see the full picture.

Slips, trips and falls remain one of the leading causes of workplace incidents, yet many are preventable. Join SlipTest to explore the six key factors that contribute to slip risk, along with practical steps businesses can take to reduce risk and create safer working environments.

Discover how to move from reactive clean-up to proactive slip prevention, helping to reduce injury rates, protect employees and safeguard your bottom line.

Donna Helgeson (Principal Associate at Weightmans) will discuss how internal investigations should be a key part of responding to any health and safety incident, the benefits of undertaking internal investigations and how to protect an internal investigation with legal professional privilege. We will compare and contrast a scenario where a health and safety incident is responded to by a robust privileged internal investigation against a situation which is not and the likely consequences of each.

 Attendees will gain practical insights into how a connected approach to EHS management can improve oversight, support more proactive decision-making and help turn operational data into meaningful action.

In this session, Davy Snowdon MBE will explore how Olympic weightlifting principles can be applied to manual handling. Drawing on scientific evidence, he will show how these techniques reduce accidents and improve safety, offering practical insights that can be used in everyday workplace activities.

This presentation explores how wearable technology is transforming modern EHS management through real-time monitoring of worker exposure to occupational hazards such as noise, dust & HAVS. Using Reactec’s wearable solutions as a case study, the session will highlight how live exposure data, actionable insights and proactive risk management are helping organisations reduce risk, improve compliance and create safer, healthier workplaces across complex industrial environments.

Delivering critical infrastructure projects presents a unique set of challenges, from complex supply chains and increased regulatory scrutiny to growing commercial pressures to deliver at pace. For senior leaders, the challenge is clear: how do you accelerate delivery while protecting the safety, health and wellbeing of those carrying out the work?

A look at how a large organisation has changed the way it uses accident data. How taking a more risk-based approach has allowed it to better understand the safety environment and to help inform decisions.

Two people can look at the same situation and see something completely different. Organisations do this at scale.

Drawing on emerging thinking from The Choice Chain, Louise will explore how the different issues we see, the pressures we experience and the choices we make interact to create organisational outcomes. Rather than looking at decisions in isolation, we’ll look at the wider constellation of choices: what people could see at the time, what they couldn’t, and how one choice creates the conditions for the next.

For safety professionals, it’s an invitation to think about how connecting different perspectives can help us understand not only why choices made sense at the time, but influence the conditions around the choices still to come.

Through sharing personal experience panellists will discuss Overcoming barriers, the importance of creating a community, becoming more visible and also recognising that you are ‘good enough’.