IHEEM is delighted to announce that Peter Ball – Strategic Research director, BRE – has been added to the list of expert speakers who will present at an Institute seminar on sustainability issues in London this month.
Entitled ‘Plan Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow’, the Sustainability seminar will be held on 16 May at a London venue to be confirmed, and is the second to cover this important topic to be staged by IHEEM in recent weeks, the first having been held in Birmingham on 19 April. As Strategic Research director at BRE, one of the UK’s leading research consultancies, testing, and training organisations, for the built environment, Peter Ball plays an important part in shaping research strategy, and works with the Modern Built Environment Knowledge Transfer Network on new and emerging technologies and innovation. He also works closely with the UK Government’s Technology Strategy Board and EPSRC as a mentor, assessor, and industry stakeholder, and ‘helps to shape the funding roadmap to support research and development for the built environment’. Other speakers will include Trevor Payne, director of estates and facilities management at London’s UCLH NHS Foundation Trust, who will also chair; Larissa Lockwood, public sector manager at The Carbon Trust; Phil Nedin, global business leader for Healthcare at Arup; Professor Kevin Lomas, centre director, London-Loughborough Centre for Doctoral Research in Energy Demand – representing the Design & Delivery of Robust Hospital Environments in a Changing Climate (HEJ – June 2010) project team, and Katy Bryan, sustainability manager, and Richard Tandy, national sales manager, Healthcare Lighting, both of Philips Lighting.
Last chance to book
IHEEM events /education manager, Siân Barker said: “This is the last chance to book at place at the second sustainability seminar, so I would encourage potential delegates to contact IHEEM as soon as possible to check availability before they miss out on the opportunity.” The Institute wishes to thank Optima Products, which has supported both Sustainability seminars by participating in the new initiative CASP (Company Affiliate Support Package). (HEJ – March 2012). A full report on the ‘Plan Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow’ seminars will appear in HEJ in the near future.
Water seminars to tackle ‘invisible threats’
“Nothing new ever happens in the water field. I’ve heard it all before”. “Although we sometimes hear this phrase, in fact the very opposite is true,” says Siân Barker, who is keen that potential delegates are also aware of two upcoming IHEEM seminars taking place in July (in Leeds on the 17th of the month, and in London on the 19th) focusing on the ‘Invisible Threats’ to estates and facilities personnel responsible for the safety of hospital water systems that come in engineering, microbiological, and regulatory form (HEJ – March 2012). Siân Barker said: “In the past two years we’ve had a new British Standard on Legionellosis risk assessment, new guidance document on Pseudomonas following the death of neonates in Belfast (see also pages 29-34 of this issue), new SHTM04 guidance on water, new BS8558:2011 guidance which replaces BS.6700, continuing discussion about the risks from flexible hoses, and debate on using fewer thermostatic mixing valves – all against a backdrop of significant pressure to reduce costs. Water hygiene is one of many risks that need to be resourced and managed.” Topics covered will include how to minimise the risk of waterborne infection, water hygiene issues generally, competing and antagonistic risks such as scalding and environmental impact, and other key water management and impact reduction measures.
HSE expertise
John Newbold – HM Specialist Inspector for the HSE – has confirmed his participation in these two ‘The Invisible Threat’ seminars, which will be chaired by David Harper – a well-known ex-hospital engineer and expert in waterborne contamination prevention and emergency response who runs his own consultancy. Other speakers will include Dr Nick Hill, technical director, the Water Hygiene Centre; Clare Reynolds, laboratory manager (Water Testing), Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust; Steve Mount – Legionella consultant, Steve Mount Associates; Alan Hambidge – director, Empathy Environmental Consultants, and Rob Griffiths, Legionella consultant (Water Regulations), at Griffiths Associates. The water seminars are being supported by an education grant provided by Pall Medical. Siân Barker says: “Please let us know what topics or issues you would like to see addressed at future IHEEM seminars, or if you would like to offer your knowledge or skills to support one of our events (and also to find out more about CASP).” For the latest information on all IHEEM’s events, contact Siân Barker. T: 02392 823186; E-mail: sian.barker@iheem.org.uk, or visit: www.iheem.org.uk/ IHEEM-Events
