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Don't miss our Middle East conference 2025

  • Date: 11 February 2025
  • Venue: Conrad Hotel, Dubai, Sheikh Zayed Rd - Trade Centre - Trade Centre 1
  • Price: Complimentary

Conference Sponsor:

Join industry leaders, health and safety experts, and innovators for a day of insightful sessions and discussions tailored to address today’s most pressing workplace challenges specifically tailored to our Middle Eastern audience.

Hosted by British Safety Council, this complimentary event is designed to provide actionable knowledge for shaping a safer, healthier, and more resilient workforce.

Why Attend?

  • Gain New Insights: Hear from renowned industry professionals covering topics from leadership and culture to psychosocial risks and the latest trends in technology and innovation.
  • Network with Experts: Connect with professionals and thought leaders across industries in health, safety, and wellbeing.
  • Equip Your Organisation: Discover practical strategies to foster a strong safety culture, tackle ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) challenges, and harness the power of technology.

Conference Themes:

  • Leadership and Culture: Building resilient, health, safety, and wellbeing-centred workplace cultures.
  • Safety Culture Change: Fostering health, safety, and wellbeing across the organisation
  • ESG in Workplace Health & Safety: The role of environmental and social responsibility in health and safety.
  • Employee Wellbeing: Comprehensive approaches to managing psychosocial risks
  • Health & Safety for Major Projects: Best practices for ensuring health and safety in large-scale projects.
  • Innovation and Technology: How AI and technology are transforming health and safety practices
  • Future Outlook: Key takeaways for leading in a changing world.

Session Timings & Topics

Time

Session Topic

Speaker/s

10:30 - 10:40

Opening speech                            

Mike Robinson, Chief Executive,
British Safety Council

10:40 - 11:10

Leadership and Culture                     

Nick Wharton, Health and Safety Trainer, British Safety Council

11:10 - 11:40

Safety Culture Change

Nick Wharton, (facilitator)

Panellists:

11:40 - 12:00

Break

 

12:00 - 12:30

ESG

Dr. Waddah S. Ghanem Al Hashmi, Chairman, Board Directors Institute – GCC UAE Chapter Advisory Committee

12:30 - 13:00

Wellbeing Psychosocial Risk

Dr. Audrey Fleming, Wellbeing Health & Safety Auditor and Consultant, British Safety Council

13:00 - 13:45

Lunch

 

13:45 - 14:15

H&S for Giga projects

Speaker to be announced

14:15 - 14:45

Tech, Innovation and AI

Prakash Senghani, Co-Founder & CEO, Navatech

14:45 - 15:00

Closing Remarks

Peter McGettrick, Chairman, British Safety Council

Agenda

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Don’t miss the opportunity to gain cutting-edge knowledge and a fresh perspective to your organisation.

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Speaker Profiles

Nick Wharton

Health and Safety Trainer, British Safety Council

Peter McGettrick

Chairman of British Safety Council

Dr. Audrey Fleming

Wellbeing Health & Safety Auditor and Consultant, British Safety Council

Nicolas Gougenheim

Senior Vice President Business Integration & Optimization, Miral Experiences

Dr. Naseem Mohammed Rafee

CEO at Environment, Health and Safety Agency

David Robinson

HSE & Sustainability Director, Innovo Build UAE

Mike Robinson

Chief Executive, British Safety Council

Dr. Marcéll Greeff

Deputy Senior Manager, DEWA

Prakash Senghani

Co-Founder & CEO, Navatech

Dr. Waddah S. Ghanem Al Hashmi

Sr Director and Chairman of the Federal Committee for OSH, UAE at ENOC and the UAE Standards Authority