Speakers announced for 2024 OSPAs Thought Leadership Summit

Jenni Jetzer, Group people director at Lodge Service, will address the subject of ‘Mental Health and Well-Being at Work: How is Security Responding to the Challenges?’ One in every four of us experience a mental health condition each year. For those working in the security industry, the threats posed to mental well-being are increased given the potential to witness – or otherwise be involved in – a traumatic event, as well as the increased risk of being subject to verbal or physical abuse.

Set against that backdrop, Jetzer will address several key areas. How do we effectively ensure well-being is on the business agenda? How do we support and maintain the well-being of security professionals? Also, how do we engage security professionals in recognising the importance of their own well-being?

Data and intelligence

Adam Ratcliffe, operations director at the Safer Business Network, is going to make a presentation focused on ‘Using Data and Intelligence to Fight (Organised) Crime’.

In the modern age, we are all familiar with the need to collect good intelligence and generate accurate data, but research has shown there’s a skill involved in doing so. Ratcliffe’s presentation will seek to understand what approaches work and those that don’t, what the role of technology is – and what it can be – and also forecast what the future of data management might look like.

‘What the Bosses Say’

The ever-popular annual session entitled ‘What the Bosses Say’ will feature Neill Catton, managing director of CIS Security, and Tim Kendall, the managing director at G4S Secure Solutions (UK).

Catton and Kendall will talk about the challenges they face and those they feel the sector confronts when it comes to improving the security sector and the environment in which it operates.

What do they see as the main obstacles to progress and how might these barriers be overcome? What needs to change in the sector and, importantly, how?

Event details and registration

Additional speakers will be added to the programme in due course, but those practitioners and professional wishing to assist in shaping the future of the industry are urged not to delay booking their place at the Summit given that the 2022 edition was completely sold-out.

Delegate places at the 2024 OSPAs Thought Leadership Summit are priced at £99+VAT including luncheon, entrance to the accompanying exhibition featuring all of the latest security products and solutions and afternoon refreshments.

Doors open at 11.30 am, with the event concluding at 5.00 pm.

Registration for delegate places is available online at https://uk.theospas.com/ospas-thought-leadership-summit/

About the OSPAs

The OSPAs is an independent global awards scheme currently running in thirteen countries and purpose-designed to recognise and reward companies and individuals across the security sector. Independent and inclusive in nature, the OSPAs afford the ideal opportunity for outstanding performers to be recognised and their success to be celebrated.

The NSI is recognised as a leading security sector specialist certification body with reach across the four nations of the UK and Ireland. It counts premium local businesses as well as the UK’s premier national security and fire safety providers among the client base.

Importantly, the NSI delivers a robust and continuous audit regime of approved companies through a dedicated team of in-house experts to verify compliance with relevant British and European Standards, Codes of Practice and certification schemes developed by industry bodies and associations.

End users who choose to contract with NSI-approved companies can be assured of security and fire safety services delivered to the highest standards by businesses wholly committed to quality and continual improvement.

*Further information is available online at www.nsi.org.uk