National Home Safety Congress 2008
Regulating for Home Safety: achieving the right balance between complacency and paranoia
Hilton Blackpool Hotel, Blackpool - 11th-12th November 2008 (This event has now finished - interested in next year's event? Click here...)
The home should provide a safe environment, a place where people of all ages can enjoy a relaxed and happy time. However, thousands are killed or seriously injured in the environment in which they should feel most safe. Can regulation provide a solution to a reduction in home injury, or are people becoming reliant on the safety equipment now available for home use?
The congress explored the range of solutions aimed at achieving the right balance between complacency and paranoia. Should the home environment be as safe as is necessary rather than as safe as is possible?
Congress looked at a range of issues surrounding regulation:
- Regulations and their contribution to consumer safety.
- The relationship between Regulation and accident rates.
- What is the appropriate level of Regulation for safety in the home? Should there be more or less?
- TMVs, should they be mandatory in England, as they are in Scotland?
- Can children’s play be both safe and exciting?
Programme
Tuesday 11th November - Strategy (This event has now finished - interested in next year's event? Click here...)
Chair: Tom Mullarkey, Chief Executive, RoSPA
10:00 Registration, exhibition and networking
10:30 Welcome by the Chair
10:35 Keynote Address – regulatory successes
Lord Jordan of Bournville
Vice-President, RoSPA
11:00 Multi-agency working – setting up a home safety equipment scheme
Julia Lee, District Liaison Officer, Northampton Fire and Rescue Service
11.30 As safe as is necessary
Peter Cornall
Head of Leisure Safety
RoSPA
12:00 Slaying the dragon –how regulation has reduced fire deaths in the home
Tony Prosser
Head of Community Safety
West Midlands Fire Service
12:30 Open Forum
12:45 Lunch, exhibition and networking
14:00 Classroom workshops (delegates select to attend one of the below)
- Workshop 1 Complacency vs. Paranoia
Peter Cornall, Head of Leisure Safety, RoSPA
- Workshop 2 Can the home ever be safe?
Nicola Butters, Home Safety Development Officer, RoSPA
- Workshop 3 Product Safety in the Home
Philip Le Shirley, Trading Standards Officer, East Sussex Trading Standards
15:00 Refreshments, exhibition and networking
15:15 Classroom workshops repeated (delegates select to attend of the above)
16:15 Close
19:30 Congress dinner
Wednesday 12th November - Solutions (This event has now finished - interested in next year's event? Click here...)
Chair: Errol Taylor, Deputy Chief Executive, RoSPA
09:30 Introduction by the Chair
09:35 Home safety and the Staying Safe Action Plan
Jo Hawley
Child Safety Unit
Department for Children, Schools and Families
10:00 When the lights go out - in search of a solution
Chris Haines
Inventor
Safe-T-Light
10:20 Burn injury registry: what it can do for you
Ken Dunn
Consultant Surgeon
Manchester Burns and Plastic Surgery Service
10:50 Influencing policy on a local level
David Kidd
Service Manager Environmental Health
Macclesfield Borough Council
11:20 Refreshments, exhibition and networking
11:35 Smoke alarms and CO (carbon monoxide) detectors – 20 years on
John Walsh
Managing Director
Fire Angel
12:05 NICE's programme on the prevention of accidental injuries to children
Mike Kelly
Director for the Centre of Public Health Excellence
NICE
12:35 Domestic sprinkler systems – are we doing enough?
Alan Doyle
Head of Fire Engineering
Strathclyde Fire and Rescue Service
13:00 Lunch, exhibition and networking
14:00 Reducing bath tap water scalds in families with young children in social housing
Denise Kendrick
Professor of Primary Care Research
Nottingham University
14:30 An interim data solution – working with existing injury databases
Heather Ward, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, UCL, and Geraldine Healy, Safety Engineer, Intertek RAM
15:00 Closing remarks by the Chair
15:10 Close
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Past Congresses
Home Safety Congress 2007
Date: 12th-13th November 2007
Venue: The Thistle Hotel, Cheltenham.
Home Safety Congress 2006
Date: Monday 6th & Tuesday 7th November 2006
Venue: The Majestic Hotel, Harrogate.
Home Safety Congress 2005
Theme: Reducing Risks and Injuries at Home
Date: 14th-15th November 2005
Venue: Renaissance Solihull Hotel
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