IRS Conference: Health at Work


1st October 2008, Cavendish Conference Centre, London

 Highlights include:

• New research information about the business benefits of promoting health at work from PriceWaterhouseCoopers
• Why boosting health levels of staff can boost business revenue
• The importance of getting support for health promotion from senior managers
• Case study – how Tameside Council has made health promotion part of its people management strategy
• Legal requirements on employers to protect staff from ill health and potential effects of the Black review
• Using humour and positive psychology to promote mental health at work
• Case study – Unilever’s strategic approach to understanding the health needs of employees
• How to make good health part of organisational design

 Learn from leading experts and employers 

• Chair, Dr Mike Goldsmith, executive chairman, Medigold
• Keynote speaker, Jackie Gittins, human capital director, PriceWaterhouseCoopers
• Ian Lynch, coach and project manager, The Happiness Project
• Paul Avis, corporate development manager at HR consultancy Ceridian
• Dr Peter Mills, chief medical officer, Vielife
• David Whincup, partner at employment law firm Hammonds
• Mick Forrest, assistant director, people and performance, Tameside MBC
•  Dean Patterson, health and productivity manager, Unilever