IOSH
IOSH at Safety, Health and Wellbeing London 2026
Highlights from our return to the Olympia expo
We brought insight-led content across two days at SHW Live London, focusing on artificial intelligence, health and wellbeing, and social sustainability.
From the main stage to our Insights Hub, industry experts explored what’s changing for the profession and what to do about it.
Whether you joined us on the day or couldn’t make it, here’s how the two days unfolded.
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Visitors to IOSH stand
350+
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IOSH conference and mini-theatre sessions
10
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IOSH session attendees
700+
IOSH sessions – recap and insights
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Digital progress, worker protection
Richard Bate, IOSH President, reveals critical gaps in worker safety, health and ethics during tech adoption.
- Involve safety professionals early
- Build safety into procurement decisions
- Consult workers on safety concerns
- Embed safety-by-design and resilience
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Mental health, legal realities
Sarah Valentine, Macauley Quinn, Tracey Dangerfield and Stefan Desbordes unpack employer mental health duties.
- Treat stress as leadership responsibility
- Train managers to spot issues early
- Close the mental health literacy gap
- Build human-centred safety cultures
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Safety for a new generation
Baz Ramaiah, Youth Employment UK, explores how Gen Z experiences risk, supervision and safety at work.
- Address confidence and skills mismatch
- Recognise rising anxiety and depression
- Signal safety and inclusion early
- Resolve manager friction quickly
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Practical AI, real workflows
Navatech.ai’s Rakesh Hirani shows how free AI tools can support everyday safety workflows.
- Match the tool to the task
- Use free tools for career planning
- Simplify legislation with AI
- Turn complex content into guidance
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Human factors in safety performance
Health and safety consultant Shelley Stiles on getting the best safety performance from people.
- Understand roles within the system
- Watch for lost situational awareness
- Design prevention into systems upfront
- Look beyond post-incident investigation
“Management of risk is where human factors can deliver us the best benefits as professionals. We already have robust, well established risk management protocols and procedures. But how many times when something goes wrong, do we look back in hindsight and go, risk assessment not suitable and sufficient?”
Dr Shelley Stiles
- Job role
- Health and safety consultant
