There was a seminar for European Health and Safety week 2011 held on Thursday 27th October 10am - 12.15 in the Council Chambers of Bradford City Hall. Two power point presentations can be downloaded below. More coverage of the seminar will be given in the Winter Well @ Work newsletter.
A slips and trips seminar took place on 7th July 2011 in the Council Chambers at Braford City Hall. Speakers from the HSE, Bradford Environmental Health and Bradford Communication Workers' gave the following presentations. Click on the links to view and or download the presentations.
BAOHSF organised a seminar which took place on the 28th of April and was on the subject of Asbestos, you can download the presentations from the speakers below.
Also at 12 noon on that day BAOHSF joined Bradford Area Safety Reps Association at a Workers Memorial Day commemoration. See the BASRA tab for more details.
A workplace transport safety seminar, which took place on February 8th 2011, looked at the problems around vehicles and lifting equipment at work killing and injuring workers. Topics included safe sites, workplace traffic routes, visibility speed and pedestrians; reversing, parking, loading tipping and avoiding overturns.
Following on from the recent targeted inspections in Bradford the seminar will cover: safe lifting and machinery maintenance. Click on the speakers names below to download their presentations.
We held a seminar during European Health and Safety Week on 28th of October 2010. The theme was Safe Maintainance.
Bradford Area Occupational Health and Safety Forum in association with Enterprise Europe Network organised free event for European Health and Safety Week in Bradford.
The event, had Geoff Cox as a key note speaker from the HSE
Event organiser Jane Howie said “10-15% of all fatal accidents in workplaces in Europe are maintenance related”. “Many accidents happen during maintenance work, many happen because of lack of maintenance and many happen as a result of poor quality maintenance management.”
Workshop leaders includec Jayne Talbot, Health and Safety Manager from Christeyns UK and Ralph Baqar, safety practitioner from Focus Safety. Jayne's presentation.
Another popular workshop was on safe evacuations from buildings and Wendy Bland can be seen here reporting back to the main seminar.
The presentations for the fit note seminar can be downloaded below:
The latest seminar was about the new 'Fit Notes' that were introduced on the 6th of April 2010. This event is took place at the Impressions Studion, Centenary Square, Bradford on the 28th April 2010.
The last seminar was on Worker Involvement and was held on Thursday 4th Februry 2010 at our new venue The Bradford Club. The presenations from the speakers can be downloaded below:
The October 2009 seminar was for European Health and Safety week and took place at the Carlisle Business Centre in Manningham, Bradford on Tuesday 20th of October 9am - 1pm. The theme was Risk assessments. See below to download the presentations.
We do not have any documentation for the workshops on stress and fire safety, that were run by Carol Duerden and Ian Purcell. If you would like more info about these workshops please get in touch.
Seminar 14th of July 2009 exploring the myths around employing people with disabilities presentations can be found below:
Some brilliant videos of Bradford people talking about the barriers to work they have experienced were shown at the seminar. These had been filmed as part of the Employ Disability project. An information pack is to be produced for employers to show best practices in employing people with disabilities and this has been funded by Adult Services.
Below is some information from the seminar that took place on Tuesday 28th April 2009 at the City Hall in Bradford. It was entitled 'After the Inspector Called' and was a follow up on basic H&S issues found during recent joint inspections in Bradford by the HSE and Environmental Health. see below
Intoduction by Jeanne Morton from the HSE and John Blanchfield from Bradford Environmental Health.
There were also presenations about lifting machinery and manual handling.
90 people attended the Sensible Risk Assessment Seminar held on the 26th of February 2009 at Manningham Mills, Bradford. See presentations from this seminar below.
Click here to see Neil Hunter, HSE presentation (photo of Neil below)
Click here to see John Blanchfield, Bradford Environmental Health Manager presenation (photo of John below) -
click here to see Charlie Buckton, Barrat/Priceless presentation and notes (Charlie below)
Click here to see Mick Gledhill, Communication Workers Union presentation.
clik on the below to see the napo video played at the seminar
The seminar was charied by Andrew Mawson (photo below)
Photo of the few who made it to the first attempt of the seminar which took place on the worst day of the year (weatherwise).
click here to see Stefnie Krzyszczyk's presentation from the snowbound seminar, Stef was the only speaker to manage to get through the snow.
Working For A Healthier Tomorrow
There iwas a major seminar on occupational health and safety in Bradford on the morning of September 24th entitiled 'Working For a Healthier Tomorrow'. Dame Carol Black, author of a recent review on the health of the working age population will spoke along with representatives of Bradford Council, Bradford and Airedale tPCT,Trades Union and Local Business.
Downloads of the presentations are available below. Some video clips from the seminar area are also below (or will be soon).
'Lighten the load' seminar was held for Euorpean Health and Safety Week and took place at the Carlisle Business Centre, Bradford on Thursday 18th of October and the subject was centred around musculoskeletal disorders. Go to the news page to download the presentations from this event.
To see some video footage of the Lighten the Load event click below: Musculoskeletal disorders and rehabilitation
Jenny Lawson - Introduction to H&S week -
If there are any topics which you think the forum should consider for one of its upcoming seminars please contact us and let us know.
