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FORS Members’ Conference 2017 Compliance: what does it mean to you?17 October 2017National Conference Centre, Solihull

FORS Members’ Conference 2017 Welcome to the second FORS Members’ ConferenceA warm welcome to the second national FORS Members’ Conference. This year, it’s anopportunity to hear from industry specialists on how you maintain compliance in relation tocontracts, legislation and the FORS Standard. It’s also the ideal opportunity for networking withyour colleagues and peers.Enjoy our expert speaker line-up and make the most of the panel Q&A sessions. Visit our FORSAssociates on their exhibition stands and drop into the FORS, Driver and Vehicle StandardsAgency (DVSA) and Transport for London (TfL) ‘surgeries’ where you can ask questions related toyour specific operation. Brian Weatherley Conference Chairman AgendaTime Title Speaker08:00 Exhibition opens Brian Weatherley, Conference Chairman Kevin Richardson, CILT08:00 - 09:30 Networking breakfast / product and service providers Steve Agg, GSAG Chairman exhibition David Wood, DVSA Graham Holder, FORS09:30 Conference starts Graham Bellman, Travis Perkins09:30 - 09:40 Welcome and introduction Gordon Sutherland, Tideway and Neil Cox, HS209:40 - 09:50 Why go beyond legal compliance? Keynote address Gareth Salisbury, D.Tec International and Paul Mountford, Merseyside Police09:50 - 10:10 Governance and Standards Advisory Group - Safeguarding the FORS Standard Mark Wheel, Network Rail Wayne Watling, Counter Terror Focus10:10 - 10:30 DVSA enforcement update Desk, Metropolitan Police Road and Transport Policing Command10:30 - 10:50 Ensuring compliance and enforcing of the FORS Standard Jonathon Backhouse, Backhouse Jones Solicitors10:50 - 11:00 Panel discussion11:00 - 11:30 Networking coffee break / product and service providers exhibition / surgeries11:30 - 11:50 Getting FORS to work for you11:50 - 12:10 Compliance with contract requirements and High Speed 2 contractual compliance12:10 - 12:30 Implementing drug screening at the roadside – a roads policing perspective12:30 - 12:40 Panel discussion12:40 - 12:50 Awards12:50 - 14:10 Networking lunch / product and service providers exhibition / surgeries14:10 - 14:30 Bridge strikes14:30 - 14:50 Counter terrorism and HGVs14:50 - 15:10 FORS: Not just a badge15:10 - 15:20 Panel discussion15:20 - 15:30 Chairman’s conclusion15:30 - 16:00 Refreshments / product and service providers exhibition / surgeries

FORS Members’ Conference 2017 About the speakersConference Chairman - Brian WeatherleyBrian Weatherley, former Editor-in-Chief of Commercial Motor and Truck &Driver magazines, has been writing and commenting on the road transportindustry for over 30 years. Since 2009, as a freelance journalist, he hascontributed to a number of magazines in the UK, Australia and New Zealand.He also works as a video presenter, runs a B2B media training company andregularly chairs industry conferences and seminars, including CLOCS progressevents. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport andan HGV and PSV licence holder.Kevin Richardson Steve AggKevin joined The Chartered Institute Steve moved into mainstream logisticsof Logistics and Transport as Chief management becoming DistributionExecutive in December 2015. An Director for Danone. Having spent theexperienced senior logistics executive last ten years as The Chartered Institutewith over 35 years’ experience in the of Logistics and Transport’s Chiefindustry, he has extensive knowledge Executive, Steve retired at the end ofin operational and project management 2015 but still champions FORS as theacross Europe. Kevin is based at the Chairman of the Governance andInstitute’s Corby headquarters. Standards Advisory Group.David Wood Graham HolderDavid has a motor vehicle engineering Graham has worked within the transportand training background. He joined logistics industry for 27 years. HeDVSA in 2001 as an Enforcement started as a driver and progressedVehicle Examiner. In 2013, he joined through to transport management,the enforcement policy team as the compliance auditing and conductingRoadworthiness Policy Manager. In transport inspections. Over the pastJanuary 2016, although still managing three years, Graham has been heavilyother aspects of enforcement policy he involved with FORS, and is now thealso became the project lead for DVSA Quality Assurance and ComplianceEarned Recognition. Manager.Graham Bellman Gordon SutherlandHaving worked for a manufacturer, 3PL/ Gordon started his working life as aExpress Parcels business and now postal cadet with Royal Mail in 1983.working for Travis Perkins as Group He went on to undertake logisticsFleet Director, Graham’s role covers management roles across the UK.vehicle engineering, compliance, A new challenge came in 2005, withprocurement, and the challenge which Transport for London (TfL), where heis operational efficiency. Graham is was given the task of setting up a newresponsible for one of the UK’s largest reward and recognition scheme forown account fleets. It’s a diverse job freight operators servicing the City –with 4250 vehicles in 2056 locations, FORS was born! After the launch of the46 per cent of which have one vehicle - London Freight Plan (2007), GordonGraham’s day job pulls on all his skills! left TfL and went into rail logistics, then Crossrail. He joined Tideway in 2013.

FORS Members’ Conference 2017Neil Cox About the speakersNeil started his career as a driver’s Gareth Salisburymate and then progressed to Class 1driver six years later. He did various Gareth heads the Workplace Testingjobs while studying for his CPC and division of D.Tec International Limited.transport degree. Neil started his He has spent the last 10 years buildingmanagement career in early 1994 as up the D.Tec corporate client base ofTransport & Plant Manager for Liverpool safety critical companies with a uniqueCity Council Highways department, workplace solution based on themoving to sustainability followed by credible roadside deterrent that all 43seven years as a waste operations police forces are now using effectively.manager. Neil then moved to the Fast Gareth’s current role includes draftingMoving Consumer Goods (FMCG) robust drugs and alcohol policies forsector, followed by a couple of years at companies of all sizes, deliveringNetwork Rail before moving to HS2. tailored drugs and alcohol awareness training/product training courses.Paul Mountford Mark WheelPaul works in roads policing inMerseyside Police. He spent over Mark Wheel is a Chartered Civil27 years in traffic/roads policing and Engineer with 36 years’ experiencespent the last 10 years as the Force in the rail sector. He has spent hisLead for drink and drug driving and career managing railway bridges andwas responsible for the introduction of structures before moving, earlier thisroadside drug testing in Merseyside. year, to Network Rail’s Safety, TechnicalPaul’s current role as a Casualty and Engineering team in Milton Keynes.Reduction Officer includes work-related Since 2009 Mark has been working toroad safety and providing coaching to reduce the frequency and impact ofdrivers and managers on drink and drug road vehicles hitting railway bridges.driving. Jonathon BackhouseWayne Watling Jonathon is the seventh generation ofWayne has spent the past 22 years solicitor in a continuous lineage thatworking with the Metropolitan Police. can be traced back to 1819. TodayPrior to this, he worked as a non- Jonathon practises regulatory law fromcommissioned officer with the Royal the firm’s London base. He acts forMilitary Police. For the past two years logistics and passenger carrying clientshe has been the supervisor of the throughout the UK and specialises inCounter Terrorism Focus Desk (CTFD), Public Inquiries, Health and Safetyworking in partnership with Transport for investigations, Crown Court mattersLondon (TfL). The job involves reaching representing operators in seriousout to the management and staff of criminal cases such as prosecutions forTfL and partner companies to deliver causing death by dangerous driving,counter terrorism messaging, present a corporate manslaughter and seriousnumber of corporate and bespoke CT health and safety offences.products and increase CT awareness.

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