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10 September 2010 - NR 35/10

The recipe for safety: National Food and Drink Manufacturing Conference 2010

Workplace injuries in food and drink manufacture have dropped by half over the last 20 years.

Now the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) is hoping to drive the figure down further with its annual conference for the industry later this month.

Held at the Oxford Belfry Hotel, in Oxford, on Tuesday and Wednesday, 28 and 29 September, the National Food and Drink Manufacturing Conference 2010 will highlight the main ingredients for keeping injuries at bay. The event focuses on providing solutions to potential slip-ups in health and safety within the industry.

And on Tuesday night, the Gala dinner and National Food and Drink Health and Safety Awards will reward Dragon’s Den-style inventors who have developed innovative projects that have solved problems and had a positive impact on their working environments.

Celebrating 20 years since the introduction of the joint Health and Safety Executive (HSE)/Industry initiative, ‘Recipe for Health’, the event features a talk by Richard Morgan, Head of Food and Drink Manufacture Section within HSE’s Agriculture and Food Sector. He will present, ‘The right ingredients: National injury data and the ‘Recipe for safety’ initiative’, during Tuesday’s programme.

Mr Morgan said: “Since the joint HSE/Industry ‘Recipe for safety’ initiative began in 1990, the overall injury rate in food and drink manufacture has dropped by over 50 per cent.

“This conference focuses on how we can continue to drive down accidents, improve health and safety in the food and drink manufacturing industry and deliver the most effective solutions.”

As well as setting the scene for future health and safety priorities, the conference’s focus will be on applying practical solutions in the areas of machinery safety, working at height, manual handling, slips, trips and falls and the finale – behavioural safety and leadership. Experts from household names including Ginsters, Northern Foods and Wincanton will also be presenting over the two days.

Speakers on day one of the conference are:

• Neil Catton, Chair, IOSH Food and Drink Group
• Jak Thomas, Health and Safety Manager, Allied Bakeries
• Mark Duddridge, Managing Director, Ginsters
• Richard Morgan, Head of Food and Drink Manufacture Section, HSE Agriculture and Food Sector
• Martin Keay, Director, Ensure Consultancy Ltd
• Sally Roff, Partner, Beachcroft LLP
• Matt Birtles, Senior Ergonomist, HSL
• Steve Thorpe, Pedestrian Safety, Principal Scientist, Technical Lead, HSL
• Andrew Wetters, Workplace Transport Policy Team, HSE
• Lisa McGrevy, SHEQ Manager UK&I, Wincanton

Speakers on day two are:
• Doug Russell, Health and Safety Officer, USDAW
• Paul Laidler, Managing Director, Laidler Associates
• Nigel Davy, Health and Safety Consultant, Safety Consultancy
• Ian Hutchings, Director. Vita Safety Ltd
• Alan Christie, Director, G’s Marketing
• Sue Capper, Behavioural Safety Manager, Northern Foods
• Steve Beswick, Director, JOMC
• Dr Tim Marsh, Managing Director, Ryder-Marsh (Safety) Ltd

Notes for editors:

• The national food and drink manufacturing conference is organised by the IOSH Food and Drink Group, with support from the HSE’s Agriculture and Food Sector and the Food and Drink Manufacture Health and Safety Forum.

• For more information about The national food and drink manufacturing conference 2010 visit www.iosh.co.uk/foodanddrinkgroup or phone the IOSH events team on +44 (0)116 257 3378 or email events@iosh.co.uk

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Notes for editors:

IOSH is the Chartered body for health and safety professionals. With more than 40,000 members in 85 countries, we’re the world’s biggest professional health and safety organisation.

We set standards, and support, develop and connect our members with resources, guidance, events and training. We’re the voice of the profession, and campaign on issues that affect millions of working people.

IOSH was founded in 1945 and is a registered charity with international NGO status.