21 November 2023 5.30pm – 8.30pm Community City, University of London

Overview

Join the IWFM Risings FMs Network for an interactive FM compliance game and networking opportunity.

Health, safety and environmental management is a fundamental part of business. But for many reasons, justified or not, it can be seen as costly, a burden, an inhibitor and even nonsensical. Add in changing legislation, conflicting advice, and C-suite belief it can all make creating confidence in your compliance feel a little bit of a ‘game show’.

Sharing with you over 30 years’ experience in making health and safety work for organisations, Greg Davies of Assurity Consulting considers the current situation, and asks and answers some of the questions in this entertaining and thought-provoking presentation, so join him for this interactive session and play “The compliance conundrum”.

Agenda
5.30pm: Arrival
6pm: Welcome - IWFM Rising FMs committee / Introduction - IWFM Newcomer of the Year 2023 Award winner Darwin Lloyd, ISS UK
6.15pm: ‘The compliance conundrum’ - Greg Davies, Assurity Consulting followed by Q&A
7.15pm: Networking
8.30pm: Event close

Refreshments will be provided.

Host

City, University of London

Sponsors

Assurity Consulting

Assurity Consulting is the UK’s leading independent accredited consultancy specialising in workplace health, safety, and environmental solutions. We were inaugural members of the IWFM (then the BIFM) and have supported the institution since it began in 1993. Our customers reap the benefit of our more than 38 years’ experience of delivering our services across a range of different sectors – helping them manage their compliance responsibilities as effectively as possible. 

Our technical expertise and award-winning customer service have led customers from the UK and internationally to choose us as their trusted partner to help them manage their workplace compliance. As an independent consultancy, with no remedial products or services to promote, our impartial advice makes sure that compliance management budgets are used to best effect. Our in-depth technical expertise is a quality that really sets us apart. Our team includes certified specialists in disciplines including occupational safety and health (NEBOSH, OSHCR), access audits (NRAC), asbestos (P402), plus experts in areas such as asbestos, environment, fire, food safety, health and safety, Legionella, noise and indoor environment quality (air, water, comfort), making us the preferred compliance management partner of so many organisations.

Our customers can rest assured that we are audited to British and International Standards for our processes and procedures. We hold ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 for the provision of auditing and consultancy services for the built environment. We are also certificated to ISO 45001 for occupational health and safety management best practice. We also have specific Primary Authority relationships with two leading local authorities.

To give our customers the added security they need, our company is accredited by UKAS to ISO 17025 for the sampling and analysis of air and water samples in our own laboratory. We are also accredited as an inspection body by UKAS to ISO 17020 for our Legionella risk assessments to BS 8580 standard. We are recognised by BAFE, for being fully compliant with the requirements of SP205, a life safety fire risk assessment scheme, that provides independent evidence of our competency to deliver fire risk assessments.

Our consultants – all direct employees – guide our customers through our findings and provide all the help, advice and information they need, giving reassurance that they are in control of their compliance.

 

Speakers

Greg Davies

Director of Market Development, Assurity Consulting

Greg has worked for over 32 years in health, safety and environmental compliance management covering aspects including Legionella, H&S, fire, asbestos, building environment quality, energy, waste and sustainability.

A degree-qualified microbiologist and registered expert witness, he joined Assurity Consulting in 1989. Greg is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health, Specialist Member of the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management (IIRSM) and currently Chair’s both the IWFM Sustainability Special Interest Group and IIRSM London Branch committee

Greg is a regular blogger and contributor to our industry press, with over 250 articles published on environmental management/sustainability, health and safety and risk. He chaired the CIBSE committee that revised TM13, was the author of the original IWFM good practise guide to risk management and has been survey lead for the IWFM sustainability in FM survey for the last 8 years.

On subjects ranging from water management to the “Red Tape Challenge” Greg has also spoken at events for, or been involved with, organisations including Defra, PHE, IIRSM, DECC, BSC, RICS, CIEH, BSRIA, CIBSE, IWFM, IOSH, CIEH and the London Health and Safety Group