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Ask the Experts: Safe Working during the Pandemic

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Debrah Harding, Managing Director of the Market Research Society

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 Stella Tawana, Occupational Health Specialist and Director, PremierCare health Centre, Botswana Memeber ISO/TC 283, Occupational Health & Safety Management

Stella is a Medical Doctor, with a speciality in Occupational Medicine. She runs a private practice that offers Occupational health solutions to several industries in Botswana. She sits in various committees at government level and has been involved in the development of return to work plans post COVID 19 lockdowns.

Stella has worked as a Director for Health Services at the University of Botswana and was head of Occupational Health and Safety unit within the Ministry of Health and Wellness.

She is a member of Botswana’s national Compensation Board and the BOBS Mirror committee.

She is an ISO 45001 Internal Auditor who is a member of the ISO 45003 TC and leads Botswana’s delegation.

Stella has represented South and Central Africa within the Chairs’ Advisory Committee.

Peter Caplehorn, Chief Executive, Construction Products Association

Peter focuses on engaging with policy makers and industry leaders to raise the profile of the products sector and members’ businesses, grow the market and reduce regulatory risk. Peter is a Chartered Architect with more than 35 years of experience. He has represented the CPA at the Industry Response Group, initiated by the UK Government to advise and organise a response that will help make existing buildings safe in the wake of the Grenfell disaster. In addition, Peter is the chair of CB/- (the British Standards Institution’s strategic committee for construction); chair of RIBA’s Regulations and Standards Group; chair of the BIM Task Group’s BIM4Regs working group; chair of the CIC health and safety committee; and until recently after nine years in the role, deputy chair of the Building Regulations Advisory Committee (BRAC). Peter also served eight years as a RIBA Council member.

Sally Swingewood, Lead Standards Development Manager, BSI

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.

Ask the Experts: Safe Working during the Pandemic

Ask the Experts: Safe Working during the Pandemic

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