Agenda

HSE CONFERENCE

Thursday 8 February 2024

7.45 am

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Registration Opens
Exhibition and Catering Available

8.45 am

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Welcome and Introduction
Mark Wilson, HSE & Operations Director, Offshore Energies UK

9.00 am

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David Whitehouse, Chief Executive, Offshore Energies UK

9.10 am

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Process safety leadership – why bother?                                                                                                                  Samantha Peace, Director – Energy Division & Ken Rivers, Non Executive Director,
Health & Safety Executive

9.30 am

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Mhairi Finnie, HSE Director, TotalEnergies

9.40 am

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Frontline leadership: Cultivating a robust safety culture in offshore operations
Stuart Milne, Offshore Installation Manager, Harbour Energy

9.50 am

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Refreshments break & exhibition visit

10.30 am

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Parallel session 1
Delegates to self-select which conference stream they wish to attend.

HEALTH | Conference Suite 1AB

Chaired by Fiona FitzGerald, Program Delivery Manager, Step Change in Safety

Physical and mental health resilience can be boosted with preventative approaches focussed on wellness. Some of these include posture and sleep, both topics which can have transformative benefits when solved and will form part of this session. In addition, the health and fitness of our brains can now provide insights into safety performance. For the integrity of mental health provision there can be no better approach than a clinical one. The outcome of this session is that those attending will be more informed in some of the leading thoughts in mental & physical aspects that can be adopted in your personal and professional life.

10.35 am

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Introduction & scene setter

10.40 am

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Reducing back pain at work
Felicity Crone, Chiropractor, Banchory Spinal Health

10.55 am

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Fatigue management
Emma Cook, Founder & Director, Purely Balanced

11.10 am

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Making the invisible visible. A data-driven approach to combating stress & fatigue
Andy Low, COO & Kevin Boyd, Business Development, FC Laboratories Ltd

11.25 am

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It’s all in your head
Shabnum Hanif, Director of Clinical Psychology, Integrity HSE

11.40 am

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Panel session

12.00 pm

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Session close

PERSONAL SAFETY | Conference Suite 3

Chaired by David Jamieson, Founder, Salus Technical

In this session we will look at integrity through the safety lens, we will hear directly from those involved in driving improvements in personal safety. The session will share cross industry learning on how technology can be used effectively to protect people, provide insights on safety trends by spotting weak signals, and demonstrate improved methods for getting to the root cause of incidents. The outcome being that those attending will be able to take the lessons learned and implement them in their own organisation to drive personal safety improvements.

10.35 am

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Introduction & scene setter

10.40 am

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Using remote technology within the nuclear industry to deliver safer, faster and cheaper
Amanda Smith, UAV Equipment Programme Lead, Sellafield Ltd

11.10 am

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How cross sector learning is driving safety performance
Adrian Brown, Managing Director, Fennex

11.25 am

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Root cause learning – Shifting the dial in sustaining performance improvement
Mark Rushton, CEO & Craig Smith, Head of Operations, COMET

11.40 am

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Panel session

12.00 pm

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Session close

ENVIRONMENT | Conference Suite 4

Chaired by Clara Altobell, VP ESG and Business Innovation, Serica Energy

This environmental session talks about environmental integrity and increasing awareness of regulatory developments. It will discuss how integrity issues can lead to loss of containment and what can be done to prevent them, and how organisations can ensure environmental integrity is at the forefront of minds throughout the workforce. This session will focus on environmental matters and the key takeaways from leaders who are involved with developing or enacting it. The outcome of the session is to increase awareness of environmental regulations, how they impact industry, and developments that can be considered for adoption in your own workplace to improve environmental performance.

10.35 am

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Introduction & scene setter

10.40 am

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Oil spill preparedness & response – Regulatory awareness
Nicholas Woollacott, Offshore Environmental Inspector, OPRED

10.55 am

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Environmental risk management and integration in FEED
Oliver Lever, Advisory & Design Team Manager, TechnipFMC

11.10 am

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Cabling the energy transition – Environmental legislation                                                                      Mairi Dorward, Environmental Specialist, Xodus Group Ltd

11.25 am

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Engaging and empowering teams to support positive environmental progress
Johnny Pike, ESG Advisor, Serica Energy           

11.40 am

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Panel session

12.00 pm

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Session close

12.00 pm

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Lunch break & exhibition visit

1.00 pm

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Integrity – a different perspective
Mark Wilson, HSE & Operations Director, Offshore Energies UK

1.05 pm

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An integrated people: brain science for looking after you and each other for better well-being and team function
Dr Tharaka Gunarathne MBChB, TV Psychiatrist & Keynote Speaker

2.05 pm

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Parallel session 2
Delegates to self-select which conference stream they wish to attend

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & HYGIENE | Conference Suite 1AB

Chaired by Carolyn Smith, HSE Advisor, Offshore Energies UK

Occupational health and hygiene are the foundation to a safe and healthy work life. This session will explore how maintaining integrity in occupational health and hygiene are an integral part of employee welfare. The session will cover legal compliance in mental health provision, regulatory insight from occupational health inspections and assurance of occupational health in the offshore environment. The outcome for those attending is the opportunity to gain greater understanding of occupational health & hygiene leading thoughts that they can transform into action to raise the bar on industry occupational health & hygiene.

2.10 pm

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Introduction & scene setter

2.15 pm

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Health and safety – It’s not just physical
Malcolm Gunnyeon, Partner & Victoria Anderson, Senior Associate, Brodies LLP

2.30 pm

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Regulating industrial hygiene offshore – Proactive & reactive?
Neil Grace, Offshore Industrial Hygiene Principal Inspector, HSE

2.45 pm

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Assurance – Internal practices to monitor offshore compliance in health processes
Karen Parry, UK Upstream Health Manager, Shell

3.00 pm

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Health at Harbour Energy                                                                                                                                                                    Dr David Leiper, Company Medical Officer, Harbour Energy

3.15 pm

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Panel Session

3.35 pm

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Session Close

OPERATIONAL INTEGRITY | Conference Suite 3

Chaired by David Jamieson, Founder, Salus Technical

This session has a focus on asset and operational integrity in the role that both play in the foundation of safe operations, protecting workers from process related risks. This session will focus on insights across the industry in such areas as; vent recovery design, operational integrity excellence and optimising asset integrity with digital twins. The outcomes for those attending include insights into operational integrity developments and learnings that can make a difference across a wide range of offshore installations.

2.10 pm

2.15 pm

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Introduction & scene setter

Integrity trends and challenges in 2024
David Jamieson, Founder, Salus Technical

2.25 pm

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Asset integrity: backlog versus late life
Matt Morton, Associate Director – Asset Integrity, Kent

2.40 pm

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Ensuring operational integrity: exploring the current landscape of functional safety in critical systems
Debbi Blackwood, Head of Regulation, Compliance and Cyber Security, Katoni Engineering Ltd

2.55 pm

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Digital asset management in the energy sector
Gareth McIntyre, Director, GDi

3.10 pm

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Insights into supply chain process performance
Tricia Schooling, HSEQ Advisor, SEQual

3.15 pm

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Panel Session

3.35 pm

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Session Close

ENVIRONMENT | Conference Suite 4

Chaired by Clara Altobell, VP ESG and Business Innovation, Serica Energy

A session that focusses on environmental matters and the key takeaways from leaders who are involved with developing or enacting it. This environmental session examines the development and implementation of the circular economy, how we can increase re-use and re-purpose of material and what are other organisations out with the industry doing to support sustainability and drive improvements in environment performance. The outcome of this session is that those attending will gain a varied view of improvement activities both in and out of the industry that should generate ideas on how to gain further gains across the industry

2.10 pm

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Introduction and scene setter

2.15 pm

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Zero Waste Scotland and the energy sector’s circularity gap
Kenny Taylor, Partner – Energy Infrastructure, Zero Waste Scotland

2.30 pm

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Football plays a key role in sustainability
Zoe Ogilvie, Director, Aberdeen Football Club & Founding Director, BIG Partnership

2.45 pm

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Navigating the port towards net zero
Roddy James, Chief Commercial Officer, Port of Aberdeen

3.00 pm

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Sustainability and nature based solutions                                                                                              Steve Wright, Project Partnership Director, ARC Marine

3.15 pm

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Panel session

3.35 pm

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Session close

3.35 pm

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Refreshments break & exhibition visit

4.05 pm

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Industry integrity and staying in action
Chaired by Mark Wilson, HSE & Operations Director, Offshore Energies UK
• John Weston, Offshore Installation Manager, CNOOC
• Tom Child, OPRED Director, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
• Craig Wiggins, Executive Director, Step Change in Safety Limited•
• Gatsbyd Forsyth de Barra, North Sea HSES SVP, Harbour Energy
• Derek Donald, HSE Manager – Senior, Wood

4.30 pm

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Closing remarks
Mark Wilson, HSE & Operations Director, Offshore Energies UK

4.35 pm

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Drinks Reception

6.00 pm

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Event close

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