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Branch & District Programme |
You'll find the dates, venue etc of the Forth and Tay District below the Branch Programme.
Contacts for Scottish Chamber of Safety and local groups. Details of the Scottish Health and Safety Revitalizers Forum. Programme of the Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment: Scotland Central RoSPA Scottish Higher Performer's Forum |
Branch Programme – 2009/2010
Meetings commence at 2pm
10 September:
Corporate Manslaughter update and other important developments in health and safety law and practice:
David Leckie - Partner, Maclay Murray & Spens LLP
- The first ever prosecution under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007
- Imprisonment for health and safety offences
- Directors' duties and individual liability
- Sentencing guidelines and sentencing update
- House of Lords - R v Chargot - what do the prosecution have to prove?
- Enforcement trends
- Legislation and case law update
David Leckie graduated from Edinburgh University with honours in law in 1984. He qualified in Scotland in 1987, in England and Wales in 1992 and called to the English Bar in 1994. He is a partner at Maclay Murray and Spens and practises both English and Scots law. His area of practice is commercial litigation and advocacy, with particular expertise in health, safety and environmental law.
He is ranked in both the Chambers and Legal 500 directories as a leading expert in these fields, with a "practical and informative approach".
His ranking for this year includes: "an excellent advocate who conjoins an extremely pragmatic and realistic outlook with a warm personality, leaving clients reassured that they are in safe hands". He formerly practised as a barrister at Lincoln's Inn, London, where he was on the Attorney General's list of approved health and safety counsel and prosecuted and defended in a wide range of such cases.
He writes and lectures widely in his specialist areas and lectured in the post-graduate Diploma in Health and Safety course at Heriot-Watt University. He is the Scottish editor of Redgraves Health and Safety and is a contributor to Tolley's Health and Safety, Green's Employment Law and Butterworth's Corporate Liability. He co-authored the 1998 Human Rights Act 1998 Explained. He has published numerous articles on health and safety law and has appeared regularly as a commentator on this area of law on both radio and television.
10-minute talk - DDA update - Ann Diment
08 October: Infection control for all: Scott Forrest - Health Protection Officer, NHS Lothian Infection Control Services
10-minute talk - New REHIS qualification - Graham Alker, Director of Training, Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland
12 November: Edinburgh Zoo: Stuart Jenkinson - Edinburgh Zoo
10-minute talk: Website update - Max Bancroft, Branch Web Champion
10 December: Business continuity - Speaker tbc
10-minute talk: How to network effectively - Mike Kean, Ask Training
14 January: Health and wellbeing – the Carol Black Report: Robert Atkinson - Occupational Health Development Manager, SCHWL
10-minute talk: Occupational Health Toolkit - Karen McDonnell, RoSPA
11 February: Burning issues in fire legislation: Speaker tbc
10-minute talk - BS 9999: Richard Hall
11 March: How competent are your contractors? Joe Brannigan, Health and Safety Advisor, University of Edinburgh
10-minute talk: Contractor passport schemes – which scheme? Allan Dick, Branch Construction Group Representative
08 April: How to survive an HSE inspection: John Blackburn, Principal Inspector, HSE
10-minute talk: Experience from the other side - Steve Boucher
13 May: Healthy Working Lives award - Robert Atkinson, Occupational Health Development Manager, SCHWL
10-minute talk: Safety practitioner award tbc
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Anyone who would like further information on District activities please contact: 1900 for 1930 until 2100 at Dewars Conference Centre, Glover Street, Perth PH2 0TH Click on to UK Multimap.com to get a detailed street map of Perth. The red circle shows the location of the Centre. |
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Scottish Chamber of Safety
Links to and details of local Scottish Chamber of Safety Groups:
- Fife Chamber of Safety. Meet 2nd Tuesday of the month, Royal Hotel, Dysart. Secretary: David Birrell. Email fcs@qista.net
