Facilities Management One-day Legal Update
Classroom
Available: Public
Course duration: 1 day
Classification:
Intermediate
Introductory
Delivery method: Classroom
Public course price: 449.00
The Facilities Management One-day Legal Update is an essential event for all premises and facilities managers who need to get to grips with the latest updates in their sector. The programme includes key updates on:
- Building Regulations
- CDM Regulations
- Fire years + of the RRO
- Health and safety law and practice
- HR legislation update for FMs
- Occupational health
- Waste management
This event in central London brings together the very best and latest law and regulation to help you get up-to-date for the year ahead.
This conference is designed to equip FM professionals like you to:
- understand the requirements of new legislation and how proposed regulations will affect your organisation;
- review existing policies and practices and adapt them to comply with the requirements of new legislation;
- identify areas of risk or exposure where you need to take urgent action at policy level;
- size up the costs of potential changes, set budgets and prioritise works for 2012; and
- network with fellow FM professionals throughout the conference.
Who should attend?
- Facilities Managers
- Facilities Assistants, Officers
- Operations Managers
- Estate Managers
- Building Managers
- Anyone with responsibility for Facilities Management in their organisation
Course programme
- Five years + of the RRO: Progress report on the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (RRO).
- Waste management: Includes the Waste Framework Directive, new Waste Regulations 2011, and civil sanctions in waste management.
- Building Regulations: Vital guidance on the new set of energy efficiency documents and changes in 2012.
- Health and safety: The recommendations of the Loftstedt Report, including the legislation set for review, proposals for self-employed workers to be exempt from health and safety law, and how changes to HSE monitoring could affect how you manage your health and safety in future, proposed changes to RIDDOR, and a Corporate Manslaughter update.
- CDM workshop: Practical guidance from our expert tutor who has real-world experience as a CDM Coordinator – this workshop includes special guests Altius – who won an award at the BIFM awards for their innovative solution to managing contractors, and who will share their research into the costs associated with assessing competence.
- HR troubleshooter: Back by popular demand, our HR expert answers all your people management questions.
- Occupational health: A guide to workplace comfort, examining good practice in noise, lighting, ventilation, and workstation design.
- HR update: Life after the default retirement age, changes to Employment Tribunals and workplace banter.
Why train with Workplace Law?
Rob Castledine, Associate Director of Health and Safety at Workplace Law, and Conference Chairman, has been involved in health and safety for over 20 years. As a qualified Environmental Health Officer, he gained practical experience of accident investigation, inspection and law enforcement.
Since leaving the enforcement role, Rob has continued to gain wide ranging experience of managing workplace health and safety. Rob is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health and a member of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health.
Workplace Law is a corporate member of the British Institute of Facilities Management (BIFM). We are also the specialist advisor to the BIFM on employment law, health and safety, and premises management. Workplace Law has over ten years' experience in providing expert training, support and advice for the facilities management sector. We currently work with a number of organisations in the FM sector, including Emprise, Incentive FM and Bite Catering.
- All our trainers have hands-on, practical experience of managing people, projects and premises, and the real-life problems involved.
- We have over 50,000 managers who rely on us for legal advice and training every year.
- We offer competitive rates on a wide range of legal and practical issues to do with managing people and the workplace. We provide national coverage, with first rate service backed by your own personal account manager.
Benefits
- This exclusive event is designed to save you time and money by bringing together the key issues faced by FMs and tackling them in one day.
- The update will give you a good awareness of the latest regulations and changes in key areas, helping you to understand how they will affect your organisation and allowing you to plan your workflow and budgets for the coming year.
- Awareness of legal requirements will help you to identify potential risks and amend existing working practices and policies and procedures accordingly.
