APS National Conference 2019

Date: Wednesday 4 September 2019
Location: England North
Topic: APS Energy week

Delivering leadership in CDM - a blueprint for 2020 

This year’s flagship Association for Project Safety conference, took place on Wednesday 4 September at Sheffield Hallam University right in the centre of Sheffield.  The conference focussed on the  for the future of the Construction [Design and Management[] regulations 2015, in view of the upcoming proposed review in 2020.  The conference revealed the results of a survey carried out by APS considering how the association's professional membership believes construction can be made safer and healthier for everyone and how the CDM Regulations can be efficiently and cost-effectively brought up to date.  The APS conference also addressed key issues facing the construction sector looking including cross-industry collaboration and upcoming legislative changes via a top flight line up of leading industry experts and practitioners.  

Programme

• 08:00     Registration, refreshments and exhibition viewing
• 09:45 Welcome and introduction by the moderator for the day, APS CEO, Lesley McLeod
• 09:50 Opening Address, Stella Clutton-Saunders, APS President

Session One: Challenges in Construction

• 10:00 Alexander Naraian, President of the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists (CIAT)
• 10:30 Lynda Rawsthorne, Project Delivery Director, Ministry of Justice, Estates Directorate
• 11:00 Inter-active questions followed by refreshments and exhibition viewing

Session Two: Celebrating Excellence – the CDM and Student Awards 2019

• 11:40 Gillian Birkby, Legal Consultant, Fladgate LLP
• 12:00 Lesley McLeod, APS CEO
• 12.10 CDM and Student Awards 2019 presented by APS President, Stella Clutton-Saunders
• 12:40 Lunch and exhibition viewing

Session Three: Skills Gym – an APS fit for the future

• 13:30 Daniel Ladbury, Director of Estates, Sheffield Hallam University
• 13:50 Questions
• 13:55 Delegates are free to move to their session of choice. Places are available on a first-come-first-served basis.

Session A: Design Risk Management, Mark Snelling, Managing Director, Safetymark Consultancy Services,
Session B: Temporary Works, Rob Millard, Temporary Works Forum
Session C: Working at Height, Steven Allen Tidy, Health and Safety Advisor, National Access & Scaffolding Confederation
Session D: Facilities Management, Sofie Hooper, Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management

• 14:30 Refreshments and exhibition viewing

Session Four: Construction design risk management in a changing world

• 15:00 Mark Snelling, Managing Director, Safetymark Consultancy Services,
• 15:20  Questions
• 15:25  Panel session: Working together to make construction safer. Contributors:

Alex Tait, Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
Nathan Baker, Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE)
Philip Campbell, Federation of Master Builders (FMB)
Stella Clutton-Saunders, President, APS

• 15:55     Inter-active question followed by Moderator's summary
• 16:05 Valedictory address, APS President
• 16:30 Networking Reception

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