35th IOSH National Safety Symposium

23 September 2010

The 35th IOSH National Safety Symposium was held at the Nottingham Belfry Hotel on 05, 06 and 07 September. This year’s topic of ‘Managing Occupational Road Risk’, which attracted over 140 delegates and over 25 speakers, addressed managing occupational road risk on day one and provided best practice and legal updates on day two.

The opening welcome was given by the East Midlands Branch Chair, Richard Whitehead. In his address, Richard welcomed all delegates, speakers and guests to both the conference and Nottingham. After explaining a little about what Nottingham is famous for, he went on to talk about what has been happening at the East Midlands Branch with the change of name, the work of the committee, recent one-off events and the program for the next twelve months. The challenges ahead for safety practitioners in the public sector were highlighted and the presentation was summarised by inviting all attendees to visit the East Midlands Branch meetings.

This was the second time the Symposium has been held in Nottingham.