Safety discussion on the world stage

Friday, 02 May 2008

IOSH and INSHPO (the International Network of Safety and Health Practitioner Organisations) will be hosting symposiums at the World Congress in Seoul, Korea.

1 July will see the IOSH symposium on 'An interactive global perspective on developing health and safety management systems' which will feature a range of presentations and workshop sessions.

The sessions will include sections covering:

• management systems, with IOSH council member, Rakesh Maharaj
• corporate governance and the role of environment, health and safety professionals, with Philip McAleenan, from ExpertEase International
• taking into account real activity for changing safety management systems to health management systems, with Joel Maline, from Antenne ANACT Basse

There will also be three workshop sessions, moderated by Rakesh, with a briefing session by the chair of the International Group, David Evans, on the exercise covering examination of cultural influences on safety management systems.

On the 2 July, INSHPO is also hosting a symposium on the international transportability of safety and health practitioner credentials.

Martin Ralph, the president elect of INSHPO, will chair the event, which will see three health and safety perspectives put forward and then focus groups to discuss competence standards across the world.

The North American perspective will be put across by Eddie Greer, from the American Society of Safety Engineers, and Eldeen Pozniak, from the Canadian Society of Safety Engineering.

Martin Ralph, in his capacity as managing director of the Industrial Foundation for Accident Prevention (IFAP), Neville Rockhouse, from the New Zealand Institute of Safety Management (NZISM) and Andrew Tan, from the Singapore Institution of Safety Officers (SISO) will explore the Australasian perspective.

Former IOSH president Paul Faupel will then look at the European perspective before the symposium breaks up into three focus groups to discuss how a competence standard gap analysis could be undertaken and to discuss the development of an INSHPO standard of competence for the profession.

For more information on the World Congress and IOSH/INSHPO involvement, please visit the website or contact Sascha Lemon on 0116 257 3215.