2nd Middle East OHS Strategy Summit 2013

From: 25 Feb 2013  To: 27 Feb 2013  City: Abu Dhabi  Venue: Park Rotana 

The correlation between enterprise productivity and workplace safety is a well established fact. It is about time, organisations viewed workplace health & safety as an integral part of their strategy. To set on a voyage of discovery and explore best practices from the safest companies in the Middle East and beyond the 2nd Middle East OHS Strategy Summit 2013 commences today at Park Rotana, Abu Dhabi.
The forum is accredited by the Board of CME, Ministry of Health - UAE, where attending delegates can earn up to 15 credit points. The complete focus of this conference would be on OHS challenges and issues prevailing in the Middle East region. The importance of committed leadership in driving a safety culture and the role of government in influencing this are need of the hour, this conference will bring to light.

> Topic: Mental Health and Fitness to Work
Dr. Mark Newson-Smith, Chief Medical Compliance Officer, ENOC
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> Topic: Wellness programs & sustaining a culture of wellness
Paul Burgess, Preventive Medicine Advisor, Wellness Program Group, Saudi Aramco
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> Topic: New developments in managing heat stress in UAE
Darren Joubert, Sr. Advisor Occupational Health, Health Authority Abu Dhabi – HAAD
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> Topic: How much health related worklessness costing you ?
Dr. Rakhmat Soebekti, Head of Occupational Health, Qatar Petroleum - Ras Laffan Region
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> Interactive Panel Session: Justifying the health cost during difficult times
Darren Joubert, HAAD
Rakhmat Soebekti, Qatar Petroleum-Ras Laffan
Paul Burgess, Saudi Aramco
Dr. Mark Newson Smith, ENOC
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> Topic: NeuroSafety: The Next Level of the Safe-Performance Evolution
Roberto Garcia, Project Manager, Sentis
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> Topic: Effective mitigation of fatigue
Dr. Kashif Afzal, Health Director-Middle East, BP
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> Topic: Responsive public health plan for emergencies
Dr. Mahmoud Mohd Ghanaim, Head of Emergency Department, Dubai Health Authority
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> Topic: Managing Fatigue in Pilots
Dr. Nadia Bastaki, Aviation Medicine Specialist, Etihad Airways

> Opening Remarks from the Chair

Topic: The Problem with Behavioural Safety
Tony Roscoe, Principal Consultant, Ryder Marsh (Safety) Ltd
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> Topic: Creating federal requirements for occupational safety and health in UAE
Dr. Ali Salem Al Alili, Director for Occupational Health and Safety, Ministry of Labour
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> Topic: Smarter, safer & more focused processes for improved operations
Khalid Saeed Al Mqeemi, Environment, Health & Safety Division Director, Department of Transport Abu Dhabi ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Topic: Leadership - Dictated or facilitated, instructed or guided, driven or led?
Troy Nugent, Senior Director HSE-Middle East Region, Baker Hughes
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> Topic: Development and Integration of HSE and Dependent Business Management System Requirements
Amair Saleem, Director-Safety, Risk, Regulation and Planning, RTA
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> Topic: Developing the ‘health’ in occupational health and safety management
Robert Cooling, Risk Services Manager, Parsons Brinckerhoff
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> Interactive Panel Session: Managing interfaces across multi-tier operations
Dr. Ali Salem Alili, MOL
Khalid Almqeemi, DOT
Amair Saleem, RTA
Robert Cooling, Parsons Brinckerhoff
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> Topic: Building an Engineering Organizational Culture of HSE Through Design: Experiences from Abroad
Rodney J. Simmons, Associate Professor of Health, Safety, and Environmental Engineering, The Petroleum Institute (ADNOC)
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>Topic: Understanding and managing safety culture Safety culture: exploring its characteristics and how to improve it
Bob Arnold, Health Safety Director - Europe and Canada & Vice Chair of IOSH Construction Group, Brookfield Multiplex
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> CASE STUDY Learning from a confined space fatality incident
Carlos Tan, Group HSE Advisor, ENOC
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> Interactive Panel Session: Addressing crisis correctly & responsibly
Rod Simmons, The Petroleum Institute
Bob Arnold, Brookfield Multiplex
Carlos Tan, ENOC