What's New 15.04.08
Mindful Employers Conference
The MINDFUL EMPLOYER Conference is to be held in Exeter on Thursday 25 September. As you'll see they have excellent speakers (Dame Carol Black, John Hamilton, Susan Scott-Parker) together with a wide range of workshops, one of which will be hosted by our Convener, Ian Draper, some magic and drama!
The conference organisers are offering a discounted rate for delegates who are employed by signatories to the Charter for Employers and bookings will close on 5 September - although places will be allocated a first come, first served basis and we are anticipating a lot of interest.
For a booking form follow this link
Guidance to the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007
The Centre for Corporate Accountability has published comprehensive Guidance on the new Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act which begins to apply after 6 April 2008. It is intended to help a range of interested groups and individuals - whether they be lawyers, other advisors, bereaved families, trade unions, managers, employers or others - to understand the nature of the new offence, the type of organisations to which it applies, the circumstances that will lead to prosecution, areas in which the Act remains open to legal interpretation, and so on.
Whilst detailed and comprehensive, the guidance tries to explain the new law in as accessible a manner as possible.
To obtain the guidance, follow this link
Wind Down
This new website, www.winddown.co.uk offers a tremendous amount of advice on coping with stress. Articles currently available include, The vicious stress cycle, Can stress affect a relationship? and The right music for the right mood.
Spring Newsletter
Our Spring Newsletter is now available, in Word ® and in PDF formats. In this issue are
- Quality of Working life
- Convenor report & diary dates
- An individual case
- Stress issues & more stress issues
- Stress conference 2008
Follow this link for the Word ® copy and this link for the PDF copy.
Stress Conference 2008
The 2008 Stress Network conference will take place at the Hillscourt Conference Centre, Rednal near Birmingham on Saturday, November 15th 9.30 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. and closing at 12.30 p.m. Sunday, 16th 2008. The theme for this year is Eradicating Workplace Bullying, including Cyber-Bullying - The Case for Dignity at Work.
Bookings are now being taken, you can ensure your place by downloading and completing our Conference booking form
Agency Workers: Social Justice, Long Overdue
The Institute of Employment Rights have organised a seminar on Monday 21 April 2008 beginning at 1.30 p.m. on Social Justice for Agency Workers. It is being held at at the UCU Conference Centre, Britannia Street, London WC1
To quote the flyer: When Andrew Miller’s Temporary and Agency Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Private Members Bill passed its second reading in the House of Commons on 22nd February the long promised and much needed statutory protection for agency workers came a step closer.
You can download more information and the booking form from this link
Clued in
The Clued-In Project is a leading service-user led training initiative that aims to reduce the stigma and discrimination that people experiencing mental distress face on a day to day basis.
The Clued-In Project delivers tailor-made training and educational sessions about a broad range of mental health issues to voluntary, statutory and private sector organisations. We are able to deliver training locally, regionally and nationally.
All of our training and educational sessions are developed and delivered by people who have direct personal experience of mental distress, which ensures that all sessions are powerful, impacting, inspirational, informative and educational.
For more information visit their website at www.imaginementalhealth.org.uk
You can also download acopy of information advertising their Stress In The Workplace courses and a Booking Form that any delegates interested in attending will need to complete
Occupational and Environmental Cancer Prevention
As a contribution to the global trade union zero occupational cancer campaign, an international conference will address a major threat to public health: the toll taken by occupational and environmental cancers. The 25 April 2008 event to be hosted by Stirling University, Scotland and supported by unions in the UK and across the world, will feature top union, campaign and academic experts from Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Finland, the UK and USA.
Speakers from international health and safety agencies including the World Health Organisation, the European Agency (EU-OSHA) and the International Labour Organisation will also contribute. The conference will assess the best available policies and practices, including presentations from leading researchers and commercial organisations on toxics use reduction, from members of bodies such as the Canadian Cancer Prevention Coalition and from trade unions and non-governmental organisations.
Union safety specialists and safety representatives will have the opportunity to make contact with top international experts on occupational cancer causes and incidence and on prevention strategies.
Occupational and Environmental Cancer Prevention - from research to policy to action at international, national and workplace levels Friday, 25 April 2008, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland
Further information can be obtained from;
Evonne Fleming
University of Stirling
Stirling
FK9 4LA
Scotland
Telephone: + 44 (0) 1786 466337 or Fax: + 44 (0) 1786 466344
Email: cancerpreventionconf@stir.ac.uk
Online: www.nm.stir.ac.uk
European Hazards Conference, Bologna, Italy, October 2008
The next European Hazards Conference will take place in Bologna, Italy in October 2008. Full details are available via these document links. Follow this link for the Word® version and this link for the PDF version
Full details of the Workshops have now arrived but are only downloadable from here as a Word® document.
Please note that the closing date for bookings is 31st May 2008, and all UK delegate bookings should be sent to Caroline Bedale, c/o Greater Manchester Hazards Centre, as indicated in the booking information.
03.01.08 (updated 08.01.08) News from our 2007 conference
We have a whole list of items from our 2007 conference for your interest. Follow the links below for further information
- Conference report
- Ian Drapers presentation (PowerPoint®)
- Implementation workshop report
- Whitehall workshop report
- Gender & Stress notes (PowerPoint®)
- Snowball UK (PowerPoint®)
- Jane Ferrie's presentation (PowerPoint®)
- Sue Espley's presentation (PowerPoint®)
We have reprinted our Stress Booklet
The UK National Stress Network booklet has been reprinted to make it even more relevant to todays world of work. You can dowload your own copy by following this link
You may slip up without Hazards at work!
23.10.07 The second edition of the TUC's best-selling guide to health and safety at work Hazards at Work! is now available!
To download your copy just follow this link
Bullying at Work - Guidance for Safety Representatives
09.10.07. The TUC has produced guidance for safety representatives on dealing with Bullying at Work. It includes a sample survey form.Visit the link to view the documents in full, in print format or in text-only format.
Hazards Conference Workshops Report
04.09.07. The UK National WorkStress Network facilitated two sets of workshops again this year:-
- Dave & Dianne Jones on Stress & Risk Assessment
- Ian Draper and Brian Robinson on Workload, Stress and HSE Management Standards
You can read a Hazards conference workshop report (Word document) and a summary of the workshop findings (Excel document) by following the underlined links.
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