Do you have the desire to practice real-life scenarios without the cost or the physical risk in order to further knowledge and reduce incidents? Well, that has become a visual reality with VR/AR providing health and safety professionals the opportunity to replicate real-life situations improving worker subconscious actions. 

Worrying statistic right? What is your organization doing to prevent this type of accident? This is a discussion to help decipher where you could be going wrong internally, the technology that you’re missing out on but most importantly how you can save workers who operate at a dangerous height.

With an increase in fines and in some cases prison sentences, we have limited time to implement new correct PPE with the right certification within our organisations. These regulation changes along with advancements in materials/technology brings realisation there is no better time to discuss Personal Protective Equipment than now!

Axiom Medical promotes Total Employee Health Services, designed to cover the entire employment health journey, beginning with pre-employment throughout post-employment.  Such services focus on the importance of injury, illness and safety hazard prevention efforts to advance worker well-being.

Our mission is to provide outstanding, innovative, and effective work-related healthcare services to employees, positively impacting their lives, and providing a meaningful return on investment to their employers.

You’ve invested heavily in equipment, procedures, and training programs for workplace safety. You closely monitor compliance. But when incidents are relatively rare, how do you evaluate the effectiveness of your current safety programs? How do you identify other steps you can take to help predict and prevent incidents? The answer is Predictive Safety Analytics: taking the data sets you already have to see things you couldn’t see before.

This interactive discussion will be around how you can understand your business challenges in competing with “occupational compliance”. Do you fully understand some of the latest legislation’s and the risk behind not knowing or even ignoring them? – believe us, that still happens!

Safety culture affects your entire organization – from the shop floor to upper management. Each person plays an important role in building a culture that values communication, innovation, this discussion will explore ways to build a stronger safety culture by empowering your workforce.

· How to Measure & Benchmark Your Safety Culture

· Improving Your Culture Through Observation and Communication

· Actionable Personal Risk Awareness

· How to Make Safety Training More Engaging

· Empowering Employees through Effective Communication

Smart PPE has been there, at the back of people’s minds within organisations, with the speed that technology is evolving – why isn’t it at the front? Smart PPE can be anything that is connected to the IoT and is able to deliver fast, efficient and accurate information to the worker and the system behind it. Collecting this data can intervene with hazardous situations or report when an employee is deviated from the expectations. The time is now.

UAVS help industry professionals increase safety and keep workers out of harm’s way.

This session will explain how industries can benefit from drone technology and how we can steer clear of dangerous situations replacing the human element of inspection with technology that can reduce incidents in a harmful and dangerous environment. We will also be discussing how to harness the power of drone data.

It’s been reported that up to 3 million workers in the UK (3% of the total UK workforce) go to work under the influence of substances annually.

In 2018 UKAT (UK Addiction Treatment) revealed statistics showing 40% of industrial accidents are inked to substance misuse with an escalated cost to employers of a combined value of £36bn a year.

The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) mandates that all employers have a legal duty to protect employees health, safety and welfare,  This extends out to ‘understanding signs of drug and alcohol misuse will help you to manage health and safety risks in your workplace, develop a policy to deal with drug and alcohol-related problems and support your employees’.

Join our Eurofins Workplace Drug Testing team as we lead a round table discussion looking at statistics, signs, and symptoms of drugs misuse and approaches to implement effective policies.