Conference Programme
09.00 Registration and refreshments
09.30 Chair’s opening remarks
09.40 Understanding the Corporate Manslaughter Act
and what it means for your organisation
- Outlining the legal framework: Ensuring
a comprehensive understanding of what
criminalised negligence means and what
has changed
- Explaining how the new legislation will impact
upon your organisation and partnerships
- Clarifying the timescales for implementation
- How might the outcome of the Barrow-in-Furness
case have differed under the new legislation?
Mr Mirza Ahmad MBA
LLM Barrister
Chief Legal Officer, Birmingham City Council
Chairman & Honorary Treasurer, BALGPS
10.10 Enforcing the Corporate Manslaughter Act:
How can you prepare?
- Evidencing health and safety and risk management
throughout your organisation
- Ensuring compliance within your existing
management systems and procedures
- Managing your performance internally:
Benchmarking and monitoring health and safety
throughout your organisation
- What to expect from a police investigation: Preparing
the necessary information to support an investigation
Mark Smith, Detective Chief Superintendent
British Transport Police
10.40 Question and answer session
10.50 Morning refreshments
11.20 Developing your corporate responsibility:
Managing the process if things go wrong
- Understanding how easily corporate manslaughter
charges may be brought against an organisation
- Ascertaining the possible consequences and
penalties and how they would be enforced
- Understanding how the legal process would work
in the event of a case
- Mitigating the effects of negative media and low
staff morale
Patrick Cassidy, Barrister
Kenworthys Chambers
11.50 Risk managed not risk averse:
Embracing the opportunity
- Creating a system and culture in which health
and safety is managed rather than avoided
- Disseminating an understanding of the changes
in legislation throughout your organisation
- Working with partner agencies
- Barnsley’s Ten Point Action Plan for managing
the change
Doug Cartwright, Head of Corporate Health,
Safety & Emergency Resilience – Health, Safety & Emergency Resilience Unit
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council
12.20 Question and answer session
12.30 Chair’s closing remarks and seminar ends
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