BS 30416, Menstruation, menstrual health and menopause in the workplace – Guide

What’s this BS 30416, Menstruation, menstrual health and menopause in the workplace – Guide event about?

How aware is your business of what employees who menstruate and experience menopause need? And how well adapted is it? For help with creating a workplace environment that’s suitable for everyone, BSI is publishing the world’s first British Standard on menstrual and menopausal health - BS 30416, Menstruation, menstrual health and menopause in the workplace – Guide

Alice Smellie and Mariella Frostrup are joining panel experts who developed the standard to share their views and experiences, as well as to offer some practical tips and tools on implementing this guidance within business environments.

Who should atte the BS 30416, Menstruation, menstrual health and menopause in the workplace – Guide event?

Those responsible for:

• workforce planning
• learning and development
• human resources
• occupational health and safety
• diversity and inclusion
• well-being
• line management

What will participants gain?

• An introduction to BS 30416 and a deeper understanding of menstrual and menopausal health in the workplace.
• Practical tips and tools for implementing period and menopause positive workplaces.
• The chance to have your questions answered by national subject experts.
• A post-event copy of all presentations for future reference.

Agenda

13:30 – 14:00 Registration

14:00 - 14:15 Host opening

Helen Tomlinson, Menopause Employment Champion & Head of Talent for Adecco Group

Alice Smellie, Journalist and author

14:15 – 14:35 Creating a period positive workplace

Kiley Yale, Head of commercial, TOTM

14:35 – 14:55 Recognize menopause in the workplace

Lauren Chiren, Founder, Women of a certain stage

14:55 – 15:15 Menopause and the built environment

Jean Hewitt, Associate, senior consultant inclusive design, Buro Happold

15:15 - 15:30 Break

15:30 – 16:15 Panel discussion on building an inclusive and supportive workplace

Darron Dupre, Head of Local Government, UNISON Cymru Wales

Sarah Williams, Equality Standards Consultant, Equality Counts

Dr. Maria Tomlinson, lecturer in public communication and gender, University of Sheffield

Helen Tomlinson, Menopause Employment Champion & Head of Talent for Adecco Group

Pamela Windle, Women's health coach for Smarter Change

16:15 – 16:35 Closing keynote
Mariella Frostrup, Broadcaster, Author and Campaigner

16:40 – 17:30 Close of speakers and drinks reception

Helen is the UK’s first-ever Menopause Champion. Working alongside the Department for Work and Pensions, Helen helps employers develop policies that empower women experiencing menopause to stay and progress in work.

Advocating for gender equity is the common thread throughout Helen’s 30-year career in the recruitment and employability sectors. In addition to her voluntary Menopause Champion role, Helen is Head of Talent (UK and Ireland) for the Adecco Group, the global leader in HR solutions. Her pioneering podcast on menopause and work inspired the Adecco Group to design and implement one of the UK’s first corporate menopause policies.

Since then, Helen has supported companies of all sizes to create supportive environments, encourage open conversations, and help women thrive at work through menopause and beyond.

With three decades of experience across commercial management, sales, and strategic HR planning, Helen helps organisations realise the business benefits of an enlightened approach – and drives positive, pragmatic change for employers and their people.

Alice Smellie is an award winning British journalist and author specialising in health and beauty.  She is the co-author of Cracking The Menopause with Mariella Frostrup and also a co-founder of the campaign group, Menopause Mandate. She currently writes about health, beauty, consumer issues and, of course, extensively about all things menopause, for national newspapers and magazines, including The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Mail and Marie Claire. 

Voted one of the UK’s 25 most influential women in Vogue Magazine’s August 2022 issue, Presenter and Journalist Mariella Frostrup is one of the foremost menopause campaigners. She combines a daily radio show on Times Radio with that of a journalist, writer and campaigner. Mariella speaks widely on the peri and menopause - her book  Cracking The Menopause is co authored with health journalist Alice Smellie. 

Accomplished sales professional with considerable experience in the FMCG industry and beyond. Successful background in bringing new products to market from ideation to launch and growing existing products and brands to achieve profitable growth and  market share gains.  Working in the period care industry I have developed our period dignity workplace scheme to launch in over 4,000 sites in the UK with expansion into Europe happening in 2023.

Lauren Chiren is an entrepreneur, CEO of Women of a Certain Stage. She is passionate about supporting people to successfully navigate all things menstruation to menopause. She is a global keynote speaker, trainer & coach on executive wellbeing.

She left her senior role in financial services, in her early 40's believing that she was suffering from early-onset dementia. Imagine her surprise when her doctor informed her, she had 'just' been through menopause?!

Today she educates employers on why being menstruation to menopause supportive, is business savvy, and supports high performing people to navigate the changes and challenges of all things hormonal.

As a trusted expert, Lauren has helped thousands of executives, celebrities, and athletes globally. She is qualified in psychology, mental health, menopause, nutrition, coaching, personal training and more.

Lauren shares her knowledge and stimulates the debate on what being well means, at all stages of life, with insightful directness, commercial pragmatism, and absolute passion for ensuring optimum health and resilience.

Lauren’s goal is to transform global attitudes to health, specifically menstruation to menopause, helping organisations to support their teams through this menstrual and menopausal transformations successfully, and to empower people to retain their vitality, increase their influence and step fully into their personal power through all their life stages.

Jean is an inclusive Environments specialist with Buro Happold and a longstanding member of BSI’s B559 Committee: “Accessible and Inclusive Environments”.  She is the technical author for PAS 6463: 2022 Design for the Mind - Neurodiversity and the Built Environment, and is a member of the drafting committee for BS 30416.

She is an Honorary Associate Professor at the Bartlett, where she leads the “Designing Inclusive Places” module on UCL’s MSc Health Wellbeing and Sustainable Buildings programme.  She has a voluntary position as the UK Government’s “Disability and Access Ambassador for the Built Environment”.

Darron Dupre is Head of Local Government at UNISON Cymru Wales. As the senior negotiator for around 35,000 UNISON council workers in Wales, 75% of whom are women, Darron places equality as well as terms and conditions at the heart of his work. 

Darron became a union rep for the National Union of Public Employees in 1991 whilst working in the NHS. In 1993, NUPE became UNISON and in 1994, Darron became UNISON's youngest Branch Secretary at the age of 23. In 2000, Darron joined the Wales Trade Union Congress (Wales TUC) as Research Officer and in 2006 returned to UNISON as a Regional Organiser. 

In 2017, Darron attended the Wales TUC launch of their Menopause Toolkit, an event that he says, 'was the most profound of my career'. Armed with his Toolkit, Darron asked Velindre University NHS Trust whether it would work in partnership with UNISON around a menopause awareness and support campaign for all staff. This project created the very first employer Menopause Cafe in Wales, won a number of HR Awards for the Trust and was used as the best practice example for NHS Wales. Darron also negotiated for NHS Wales to send bi-lingual menopause awareness posters to every GP surgery in Wales.

Noting that the Local Government workforce in Wales is statistically older and female, Darron is currently working with the Welsh Local Government Association to place menopause awareness and support at the top of the workforce agenda . To support this, Darron will be conducting a survey of the entire UNISON council and schools' membership, women and men, to better understand the menopause experiences of local government workers in Wales.

As ‘Equality Counts’, Sarah is a Pembrokeshire based Equality Standards Consultant and active advocate for inclusion in the menopause sector and straight-talking conversations that challenge the status-quo to influence change. She is a notable forerunner in providing workplace training and hosting community menopause conversations across the UK, hosting regular Menopause Café Cardiff meetings for over 2 years. Sarah is Co-author of ‘Surgical Menopause, Not Your Typical Menopause’, and Co-Founder of the Menopause Inclusion Collective.

Committed to improving standards of workplace support Sarah is delighted to have supported BSI as a Committee Member developing national guidance on Menstruation and Menopause at Work. She recently developed ‘Talk Menopause’ community menopause support course, empowering people to be proactive in their approach to the menopause transition, you can find her talking on Twitter as @SarahLouInclude.

Pamela is an integrated certified international women's health coach, speaker and menopause in the workplace consultant with 20+ years of experience in the health and wellness sector. Trained with The Integrated Women's Health Institute and the International Menopause Society, a BSI panel member for the development of BS 30416, and has a BSc in Psychology and sports science. 

She is passionate about supporting and empowering women in perimenopause, menopause, and beyond. She uses evidence-based practices to combine training and techniques with organisations, individual needs, and senior leaders. 

Dr. Maria Tomlinson is a lecturer in public communication and gender at the University of Sheffield. Maria’s research examines how journalists, NGOs, and advocates, communicate with the public about gender, health, and social inequalities. Her published work includes the monograph, From Menstruation to the Menopause: The Female Fertility Cycle in Contemporary Women's Writing in French (Liverpool University Press). Her current Leverhulme funded project examines the impact of the menstrual movement on young people's knowledge and perceptions of menstruation as well as related health and social issues (such as period poverty and endometriosis). Based on these findings, Maria has worked with menstrual advocacy specialist, Acushla Young, to create guidance for communicating effectively with young people about menstruation.

Maria chaired the committee for the Workplace Standard on Menstrual and Menopausal Health.

TOTM is changing the period care industry for good with an ethical, sustainable range and period positive mission.

This event contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goal 5 on gender equality, Goal 8 on decent work and economic growth, and Goal 10 on reduced inequality.