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2009 Environment Conference & Awards
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Quarry and Quarry Products Health & Safety Conference and  Awards 2009

SYNOPSIS - Presentations & Awards

    

The Chairman of the Health and Safety Executive NI (HSENI), Professor Peter McKie, CBE, opened this years conference on the 14th October in the Glenavon Hotel in Cookstown. Over one hundred delegates heard Professor McKie praise the industry for its commitment to improving safety standards.

As usual, the annual conference jointly hosted by HSENI and QPANI brought together a wide range of Health and Safety expertise from within the industry and addressed current issues for the industry such as Respirable Silica, Visible Felt Leadership, Slips Trips and Falls and Guarding and Conveyor Safety as well as providing updates on the Buildhealth and Safer by Design initiatives.

 

Profession Peter McKie, Chairman of HSENI opens the conference

 

Speaking at the conference Professor McKie commented " The positive work of the quarry and quarry products industry, in raising health and safety standards, is a credit to the sector and should be an inspiration to other industries. The improvement by the companies in the sector is something that other industries could learn from."

 

In welcoming the HSENI Chairman to the conference, Pat Lyons, in his capacity as Chairman of QPANI, remarked on the leadership and teamwork shown by the industry in building a solid relationship with HSENI and sharing best practice within the sector but warned..." we are certainly now in a very challenging economic period and there is a risk that standards could slide if we loose focus on driving health and safety standards forward....... The Association is determined, through its member companies to strive for excellence in this vital area of health and safety."

Click here to access the HSENI press release.

 

The event was also the forum for the presentation of the QPANI Health and Safety recognition awards which were kindly sponsored by the Department of Finance and Personnel and Zurich Insurance. The awards took on a new format this year with the focus of the scheme being to recognise and encourage continuous improvement in Health and Safety best practice.

 

 

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Presentations
Conference speakers from left: Rory Graham; Pat Lyons; Dirk Fincke; Gordon Best; Phil Trimble; Jim Leitch; Mike Kelly along with Malcolm Downey of HSENI

Visible felt leadership

 

Pat Lyons

General Manager, Tarmac

Guidance for the 2010 Reporting under the Social Dialogue Agreement on Silica

 

Dirk Fincke

UEPG

Review of Buildhealth

Jim Leitch

HR Director, Northstone NI

 

Guarding and Conveyor Safety

Phil Trimble

ConveyorTek

 

Slips Trip and Falls

Mike Kelly

Whitemountain Quarries Ltd

Safer by Design: October 2009 update

Rory Graham

IM & S Solutions Ltd

   

 

 

Awards

The QPANI Health & Safety recognition Scheme awards promotes, encourages and recognises best practice within the quarry products industry. Awards go to companies who demonstrate they are making improvements in this important area. The revised format and process has been developed in order to add value and assist in improving member's safety performance.

Full details of the Health and Safety Recognition Scheme can be accessed here.

Audits were completed by a team of health and safety experts during late summer with the resulting scores falling into the band of Gold, Silver or Bronze awards.

Please click here to read the judges comments on the individual entries.

 

Award presentation

 

             

From left: Jody Guilfoyle, Quarry Manager Lagan Cement; Peter McKie, Chairman HSENI; Stewart Heaney, Director Central Procurement Directorate

         

From left: Declan McStravick, Fivemiletown Quarry Manager Acheson & Glover; Peter McKie, Chairman HSENI; Stewart Heaney, Director Central Procurement Directorate

         

From left: John Braniff, Quarry Manager Whitemountain Quarry; Peter McKie, Chairman HSENI; Stewart Heaney, Director Central Procurement Directorate

            

From left: Craig Chisholm, Health & Safety Manager Northstone NI Quarry & Asphalt; Peter McKie, Chairman HSENI; Stewart Heaney, Director Central Procurement Directorate      

         

From left: John Davison, FP McCann Quarry Manager FP McCann; Peter McKie, Chairman HSENI; Stewart Heaney, Director Central Procurement Directorate

         

From left: Wendy Clarke, Health & Safety Manager P Clarke & Sons; Peter McKie, Chairman HSENI; Stewart Heaney, Director Central Procurement Directorate

         

From left: Stephen Horner, Production Manager Tarmac; Peter McKie, Chairman HSENI; Stewart Heaney, Director Central Procurement Directorate

         

From left: Clive Armstrong, Quarry Manager Tarmac; Peter McKie, Chairman HSENI; Stewart Heaney, Director Central Procurement Directorate

         

From left: Martin Nutt, Quarry Manager Whitemountain Quarries Fivemiletown; Peter McKie, Chairman HSENI; Stephen Boyles, Zurich Insurance Plc

         

From left: Terry Paxton, Plant Manager RTU; Peter McKie, Chairman HSENI; Stephen Boyles, Zurich Insurance Plc

         

From left: Ivor Malone, Acheson & Glover; Peter McKie, Chairman HSENI; Stephen Boyles, Zurich Insurance Plc

         

From left: Jody Guilfoyle, Quarry Manager Lagan Cement; Peter McKie, Chairman HSENI; Stephen Boyles, Zurich Insurance Plc

 
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