Defence Safety Conference Day One | Monday 1st October 2018 8.30 Registration & Coffee AVIATION SAFETY AND AIRWORTHINESS 8.50 Chairman’s Opening Remarks 2.00 Optimising Air Safety Through Conventional and Unconventional Lieutenant General Richard Felton, Director General, Defence Safety Methods Authority, UK MoD Victor Chavez, Chief Executive, Thales UK KEYNOTE OPENING SESSIONS 2.30 Safety Design and Implementation Across The Royal Air Force • How The Royal Air Force puts safety first 9.00 Ministerial Opening Address • Building in more stringent safety requirements for next generational The Right Honourable Tobias Elwood MP, Parliamentary Under air capability Secretary of State and Minister for Defence People and Veterans, • Working with international partners and industry to ensure optimised British Government safety of the platform and crew Air Marshal Stuart Atha, Deputy Commander Operations, 9.15 The UK MoD Approach to Safety In Defence: Delivering Improved Royal Air Force Operational Capability Through Enhanced Safety • An overview of the Defence Safety Authority’s priorities and 3.00 Safety Performance: Staying Ahead and Staying Alert responsibilities • Integration of compliance, reporting and risk management • Making the safety case: why the defence community needs to put • Enabling effective and proactive risk based decision making • Investing in Safety Leadership at all levels more focus on safety standards and improvement Richard Folkes, Head of Aviation Safety, Leonardo Helicopters UK • Pan-domain Regulation – Aviation, Maritime, Land, Ordnance, Fire, Nuclear and Medical (policy, statute or regulation) 3.30 Maximising Aviation Safety and Military Air Worthiness • How Defence Industry can contribute to safety design and delivery • The DSAE’s supervisory and regulatory role within civil and state • Optimising capability: why improved safety will deliver operational aviation superiority • Eliminating risk to people and platforms through the collection of Lieutenant General Richard Felton, Director General, Defence Safety safety data Authority, UK MoD • Contributing to international aviation safety Brigadier General Marc de Bouvier, Airworthiness Director in the State 9.45 Defence Equipment & Support Keynote Address Aviation Safety Directorate, French Armed Forces • Managing complex equipment programmes whilst keeping safety a key focus 4.00 Afternoon Tea • Safety priorities across DE&S • Why leadership of safety is key to enabling equipment capability Sir Simon Bollom, Chief Executive, Defence Equipment and Support, MARITIME CAPABILITY PROTECTION AND SAFETY UK MoD 4.30 QinetiQ – Safe For Life • We aim to be ‘the chosen partner around the world for mission- LEAD SPONSOR BRIEFING critical solutions, innovating for our customers’ advantage’ • To achieve this vision, we must keep our people safe whilst 10.15 Industry’s support to an agile and safe Defence capability delivering complex solutions and operating high hazard facilities • Supporting agile and safe systems of the future • We have therefore adopted a company-wide safety change • Shaping the future capabilities in a challenging and affordable programme, Safe For Life environment Ian Beresford, Group Director Engineering and Operations, QinetiQ • The future of product safety management • The challenge to develop the engineers of the future 5.00 Preserving Resources: The Evolution of the US Naval Safety Center Ian Muldowney, Engineering Director-Air, BAE Systems • Managing safety across a wide variety of naval disciplines: Surface Warfare, Submarine, Naval Aviation, Weapons and Training 10.45 Morning Coffee • Using safety to enable combat readiness • Evaluating recent accidents and how the lessons learnt are impact EQUIPMENT SAFETY AND INTERNATIONAL GUEST SPEAKERS future safety standards Rear Admiral Mark Leavitt, Commander Naval Safety Center, 11.15 Aligning Safety As a Force Enabler and Capability Driver US Navy • Why poor safety and poor risk assurance lead to reduced defence capability 5.30 How The Swedish Navy Investigate and Prevent Accidents at Sea • How training armed forces personnel better will ensure greater • Current Naval Safety Standards and Statistics safety and mission success • The Naval Safety Inspectorate’s accountability and authority • Looking at how safety will need to change as the future combat • Protecting capability development through safety environment evolves • Future accident prevention through training • The role industry have to play when ensuring greater defence Captain (N) Håkan Nilsson, Naval Safety Inspector, safety Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters General Sir Gordon Messenger, Vice Chief of Defence Staff, UK MoD Commander Anders Hörnfeldt, Head of Naval Safety Inspectorate Audit Section, Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters 11.45 Gold Sponsor Briefing Roger Hardy, Chief Executive Aviation, Babcock International CLOSING KEYNOTE PANEL DISCUSSION 6.00 Leadership Requirements for Enhancing Defence Safety 12.15 Delivering Safety Across The Norwegian Armed Forces • Why strong leadership is needed in the Defence Safety domain • Outlining how The Norwegian Armed Forces regulate and deliver • Creating further awareness amongst fellow military leaders to safety across it defence services ensure safety moves up the agenda • An overview of Land, Air and Maritime safety standards • Collaborating with industry leaders to drive safety into design and • Current projects and priorities to ensure safety remains at the heart planning of defence equipment and systems of training and operational preparation Lieutenant General Richard Felton, Director General, Defence Safety • Setting new equipment requirements with safety in mind Authority, UK MoD Major General Odin Johannessen, Chief of Army, Norwegian Armed Major General Kees Matthijssen, Deputy Commander, Forces Royal Netherlands Army Brigadier General Marc de Bouvier, Airworthiness Director in the 12.45 Eliminating Accidents and Preventing Capability Loss Across The State Aviation Safety Directorate, French Armed Forces Royal Netherlands Army Air Marshal Stuart Atha, Deputy Commander Operations, • Recent incidents and the response to those incidents Royal Air Force • The organizational changes which ensued and what they mean for Major General Odin Johannessen, Chief of Army, the Royal Netherlands Army Norwegian Armed Forces • Safety as a key enabler • Quick wins and long term goals 6.45 Chairman’s Closing Remarks Major General Kees Matthijssen, Deputy Commander, Lieutenant General Richard Felton, Director General, Defence Safety Royal Netherlands Army Authority, UK MoD 1.15 Networking Lunch 7.00 Evening Reception www.asdevents.com - www.asdevents.com/event.asp?id=19033 Defence Safety Conference Day Two | Tuesday 2nd October 2018 8.30 Registration & Coffee 12.30 A Strategic Update From The Air Force Safety Center: Safeguarding Airmen — Protecting Resources and Preserving Combat Readiness 8.50 Chairman’s Opening Remarks • The US Air Force’s priorities for aviation safety Lieutenant General Richard Felton, Director General, Defence Safety • Proactive safety programs across the air force: how the Air Authority, UK MoD Force Safety Center manages Safety programs and policy for occupational, weapons, space and system mishap prevention and UK SENIOR LEADERSHIP KEYNOTE ADDRESSES nuclear • Mitigating safety risk to all aviation assets through the establishment 9.00 Strengthening British Army Safety Standards: Saving Lives Is The First of proactive safety programs and policy Priority • Seeing safety as an Air Force multiplier: examples of where • Maximising Safety across the British Army: protect the people, optimising safety can deliver greater mission capability deliver operational supremacy and safeguard high value Colonel Larry Nixon, Deputy Chief of Safety, US Air Force equipment assets • The strategic value of putting safety first when setting new land 1.00 The Need For An Independent Authority When Investigating And requirements and equipment specifications Enforcing Safety Across The Canadian Air Force • Training and safety doctrine as an enabler to greater standards to • Roles and responsibilities of the Director for Flight Safety (DFS) within army men and women the DND • The role industry have to play • Reducing future air accidents through prevention strategies and • Future milestones for delivering optimal safety across the land investigation environment both at home and abroad • Collaboration with the Airworthiness Investigative Authority (AIA) Lieutenant General Nick Pope, Deputy Chief of General Staff, • Why investigating all matters concerning aviation safety must be British Army conducted autonomously and free from the chain of command Colonel John Alexander, Director of Flight Safety, Canadian Armed 9.30 Delivering Maximum Maritime Effect Whilst Ensuring Optimal Safety Forces • Safety as a driving force for the modern Royal Navy • Delivering maximum capability whilst minimising risk and harm 1.30 Networking Lunch • Creating habits in training and first deployments to ensure safety success ENHANCING MARITIME SAFETY WITH TECHNOLOGY • Reducing costs through maximising safety delivery across the fleet Vice Admiral Ben Key, Fleet Commander, Royal Navy 2.00 Maritime Safety Panel Discussion: Using Cutting Edge Technology To Enhance Safety at Sea • Examining current naval technology used to enhance safety LAND SAFETY PERSPECTIVES • Examples of recent incidents at sea and how new technologies 10.30 The U.S. Army Combat Readiness Center (USACRC): Maximising Force could have prevented these Protection