Please join the Scottish Region, in collaboration with the Women Lighting Professionals (WLP) for our Spring Technical Event in Alloa, Scotland on the 6th May.
**THIS EVENT IS NOW FULLY BOOKED**
9.30am - Arrival & Registration, with tea, coffee and breakfast rolls
10.30am - Opening Speech by Scottish Region Chair - Lisa Chiles
10.45am - Nicola Batey - DW Windsor Ltd / WLP - Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace
- ISO 45003 outlines the growing importance of managing psychological health at work as a strategic business priority. It highlights the rising impact of work-related stress in the UK, the financial cost of poor wellbeing, and the clear return on investment linked to proactive mental health support. The paper explains how ISO 45003, as part of the ISO 45001 framework, provides practical guidance for identifying and managing psychosocial risks through leadership commitment, employee consultation, risk assessment, and continuous improvement. Ultimately, it positions psychological safety not just as a moral responsibility, but as a driver of retention, engagement, resilience, and long-term business performance.
11.30am - Amanda Reece - Atkins Realis / WLP - Mapping the Night
- Exploring the intersection of urban geography, inclusive design and public safety through the findings of an experimental "night walk" conducted in Southampton. By engaging in a collaborative transit with university researchers and night sector professionals (including lighting engineers, urban planners and safety advocates), this study documents the specific environmental factors that influence the perceived and actual safety of women in the nocturnal city.
12.15pm - LUNCH
1.15pm - Kelly Smith - Thorn Lighting / WLP - Barnyard Velociraptors
- Lighting can annoy or negatively affect creatures (referred to as "barnyard velociraptors" in a metaphor for birds or farm animals) in several ways, particularly concerning the secondary problems of lighting design.
2.00pm - Mike Wilkinson - Signify - Unmetered Supplies and Lighting Management Systems
- With the introduction of CMS systems and variable power consumption, Elexon and the UMSUG have had to develop a way of work with the BSC to be able to capture both the variable switching and variable energy consumption where a physical meter is still not in place. CMS Equivalent Meters use a combination of the Unmetered supply way of working combined with real time switching data reported by a CMS system to calculate the energy consumed for a particular inventory item. This paper reviews how CMS equivalent meters operate, the importance of inventory accuracy and where errors can impact on billing and settlement.
2.45pm - Networking
3.00pm - End of Event
Nicola Batey
Amanda Reece
