The Health & Safety Event 2024 preview

The Health & Safety Event is the UK’s largest, strategic gathering of technology, services and products under one-roof to promote safer workplace practices. This year’s two-day event is back at the NEC Birmingham from 30th April-2nd May 2024 and covers the whole supply chain across safety and security of personnel, property and assets. The event is co-located with The Workplace Event, The Security Event, The Fire Safety Event, Professional Officer Security Live and National Cyber Security Show.

Across cutting-edge brands, practical demonstrations, and the best keynote speakers from across the industry, it is the best event for networking, brand awareness, new product launches and the latest best practice guideline and regulations.

The Health & Safety Event attracts a record number of health & safety buyers, proactively looking for the best products and solutions on the market, making it an optimised place to boost sales, pitch new products and network with decisionmakers and influencers.

Last year’s event attracted over 11,000 visitors from a wide range of backgrounds including: agricultural, building and construction, central/local Government, engineering, food processing, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, through to media and publishing, mining, offshore, pharmaceutical, transportation and many more. With a 24% year-on-year growth in visitors, this year’s event is expected to attract even more visitors.

This is the calendar trade event to build sales pipelines and showcase industry expertise to a captive audience of health & safety professionals. With 77% of delegates holding purchasing power or influence and 58% working for a company with over 100 employees, this is the definitive event to be an exhibitor.

The exhibitors cover the A-Z of health & safety and come from a wide background including: asbestos control, COSHH, driver safety, drug & alcohol testing, lone & vulnerable working, noise control, PPE, risk assessments, slip & trip prevention, working at height and much, much more.

If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it and The Health & Safety Event organisers stick to what works but will also take risks and try new things. Back for 2024 is the Start-Up Street: exhibitors viewed as game-changers and movers n’ shakers. From cutting-edge innovation to risk management, these are the companies to get to know. One of the Start-Up Street exhibitors is airbliss+® – a Dutch PPE company specialising in the toughest working environments, such as confined spaces and lone working. With its next-level protective equipment, the company is focused on reducing accidents in the workplace through breathing/respiratory prevention measures, driver safety, head protection and cutting-edge health & safety software.

Shoebox is another Start-Up Street exhibitor, focused this time on solutions for hearing health professionals across the industry. The unique software-based audiometers are optimised for boothless testing, alongside mobile, in-clinic, tele-audiology solutions and online hearing screens. Perfect for the latest occupational and wellbeing solutions in the audiology sector.

The best trade shows have the best conference line-ups and The Health & Safety Event 2024 is no exception. Leading, expert keynote speakers will be giving talks and leading workshops across four designated conference spaces: Keynote Theatre, Practical Safety Theatre, The Knowledge Exchange and Lone Worker Safety Live. These programmes will guide you through the latest IOSH and HSE regulations, compliance-safety, solutions for complex H&S scenarios and how to support lone workers.

This year, The Health & Safety Event 2024 is collaborating with the National Highways Driving for Better Business campaign to offer a feature in the Driver Safety Zone. This will help inform H&S professionals about best practice across driver safety and work-related road risk. Industry Update has featured the brilliant work of Driving for Better Business before in previous issues and we are delighted to see this take centre stage for such an important topic.

The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) will be exhibiting at this year’s event, as well as running presentations in The Keynote Theatre and Knowledge Hub. The hot topics this year will be: work-related stress, musculoskeletal disorders, noise and vibration (including hearing loss) and asbestos.

One of our predicted Top Exhibitors is HydePark Environmental, who are industry experts in spill control. Providing solutions for spill response equipment, absorbents, spill containment, bunded storage and leak control, the expert team can provide a comprehensive package for effective spill control for safer workplaces.

Established over 13 years ago, HydePark Environmental has over 3,500 lines, with solutions across environmental/waste management, hazardous material storage and handling, manual/ material handling, PPE, slip and trip prevention and a unique brand of in-house absorbents called HUG. The HUG range includes: heavyweight rolls, pads, absorbent cushions, top mats, chemical absorbent socks and much more. Turn to page 28 to read more.

To find out more about exhibiting, key note speakers and everything health & safety related, please see the website below:https://www.healthandsafetyevent.com