Strategy Consultation Launch
Resetting the direction for the Health and Safety System of Great Britain
Wednesday 3 December 2008
5.30pm to 7.30pm
There are three simultaneous launches taking place. Please choose from one of the following:
London - Vinopolis - 3 December 5.30pm - 7.30pm
Edinburgh - Surgeons' Hall - 3 December 5.30pm - 7.30pm
Cardiff - Wales Millennium Centre - 3 December 5.30pm - 7.30pm
As you will be aware, when the HSC and HSE merged in April this year, one of our first declared undertakings was to re-set and reaffirm the direction of Health and Safety in Great Britain.
Since that date we have been scoping and drafting our vision for the future, and would like to invite you to the formal launch of a three month consultation on Wednesday 3rd December.
Working with others, we in HSE have seen and contributed to major advances in reducing injuries and ill health over many years, but the world of work is changing and to meet the new challenges presented by those changes we are introducing a new strategy. We believe it will help us to become, in partnership with our stakeholders, even more effective.
Consulting with our stakeholders has been a core principle of the way we work. Your attendance at one of our launch events will enable you to hear at first hand our thinking behind the draft strategy and its core content. You will be able to ask questions or raise concerns with me and other members of the HSE Board.
We would ask that you take forward the proposals and the continuing health and safety debate to your own workplace or sphere of influence. Your input will be invaluable in helping us shape the strategy for health and safety in Great Britain.
Whilst I will chair/host the London event, my fellow Board members Danny Carrigan and Sandy Blair will host the simultaneous events in Edinburgh and Cardiff respectively.
The events will take place in early evening to minimise disruption to your daily programme and to offer a less formal networking opportunity as well as informed discussion. Guests will include chief executives and senior managers of stakeholder organisations, Other Government Departments, senior officials from the Scottish Government and Welsh Assembly, representatives of business, trades unions, MPs, local authorities, and members of HSE's board and senior management team.
Places will be limited, but we hope that you will be able to join us for this important event.