What is the real value of health, safety and wellbeing, and why do we matter?

01 Jul 2026
Keynote Theatre - Theatre 4
Keynote

We know that it's the job of health, safety and wellbeing professionals to prevent harms to individuals and save lives. But is that all we do and is that enough? We work in or with organisations that ultimately seek to create value. So what's our true value, and how do we convince others of it?

In this session, Ian Cooke will challenge perceptions that exist about health, safety and wellbeing, explore how we can change the more negative views about what we do, and shift the profession's emphasis from simply preventing failure to supporting success, by protecting and creating value.

Speakers
Ian Cooke
Ian Cooke, Director of Audit, Consultancy and Culture Change - British Safety Council