Safe Working During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Webinar: Safe working during the COVID-19 pandemic

Recorded: 15 July (14:00pm - 15:00pm, UK Time)

Help prevent a second wave – Version 2 of the Guidelines contains practical steps to support safe working, and prevent and mitigate COVID-19 outbreaks in your organization.

To complement the publication of Version 2 of the Safe Working Guidelines, BSI hosted ‘Safe Working During the COVID-19 Pandemic’ webinar on 15 July, 14:00pm - 15:00pm, UK Time.

The ‘Safe Working Guidelines: Version 2’ offers a comprehensive, practical approach, applicable to all organizations, large and small. To hear more about the Guidelines and to ask questions on the matters most concerning you, register now.

Agenda

14:00 - 14:05 Welcome and introductions
14:05 - 14:15 Introduction to the Safe Working Guidelines - Sally Swingewood, Lead Standards Development Manager, BSI
14:15 - 14:20 The impact on psychological health and well-being - Aditya Jain, Nottingham University Business School
14:20 - 14:25 Practical tips for managing people - Wilson Wong, CIPD
14:25 - 14:30 New ways of working for small businesses and the self-employed - Debrah Harding, Market Research Society
14:30 - 14:35 Why has BSI published this document? - Anne Hayes, Director of Sectors, BSI
14:35 - 15:00 Q & A
15:00 Close

Anne Hayes

Anne Hayes heads up the BSI Knowledge team leading the Sector strategies to ensure UK and global innovation and policy are supported with relevant standards. Having spent 19 years working within the standardization world she has experience across a broad range of industries and sectors having headed up teams for Governance, Risk and resilience as well as healthcare and Sustainability. In the recent months Anne has led the BSI Knowledge response to the COVID-19 crisis.

Previously to BSI Anne was Editorial Director at Sweet & Maxwell Ltd.

Debrah Harding

Debrah is Managing Director of the Market Research Society (MRS). She leads the standards, policy and public affairs activities within MRS, working extensively with government departments and global institutions on issues which affect research and insight. Debrah is Chair and co-founder of the Global Business Research Network, Vice-President of the European Research Federation, a Director of the Joint Industry Committee for Population Standards, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the RSA, and until 2018 was a Trustee and Treasurer of the electoral democracy and research charity, the McDougall Trust.

Dr Aditya Jain

Aditya is Associate Professor in HRM and Head of Division OB/HRM, at Nottingham University Business School. Aditya is the Executive Officer of the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology and Associate Editor of the journal ‘Safety Science’. He has worked as an expert advisor and consultant to the European Commission, the WHO, the ILO, the European Agency for Safety & Health at Work, and in industry. His research has focused on policy evaluation of occupational health and safety policy, policies relating to mental health at work, examining the role of softer forms of policy, and risk management of the psychological and social work environment for business and societal sustainability.

Sally Swingewood

Sally is BSI’s Lead Standards Development Manager for business improvement and occupational health and safety management. She is responsible for working with both national and international experts to develop documents that help organizations of all types to improve the way they operate and to better protect the people who work for them.

Sally engages with a broad range of stakeholders to ensure the widest possible views are taken into account when the UK inputs to international standards and frequently holds public meetings to encourage users of the standards to raise issues and propose improvements.

Sally is the manager of the ISO technical committee responsible for the world’s first international standard on occupational health and safety management, ISO 45001, and is actively involved in the development of ISO 45003 (guidance on psychological health and safety at work) which will also be the first globally agreed standard of its type.

Wilson Wong

Wilson is Head of Insight & Futures at the CIPD. He is co-editor of Human Capital Management Standards: A complete guide, and published The Future of Talent in Malaysia 2035 with the Malaysian government. He represents the UK on human capital metrics at ISO/TC260, is independent Chair of the Human Capital Standards Committee (HCS/1) and Deputy Chair of the Knowledge Management Standards Committee (KMS/1). He’s Visiting Professor at Nottingham Business School, on the Board of the International Journal of HRD Practice, Policy & Research, and on the Advisory Boards of the Work and Equality Institute.

Webinar replay - Safe Working During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Webinar replay - Safe Working During the COVID-19 Pandemic