The Risk Communication Series - Environmental Health

Dates

23rd November 2026

Time

13:00 - 14:00 ((GMT+00:00))

Location

Online

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Overview

As a risk professional, have you ever considered how the many factors affecting human health are connected and what this means for how we communicate Environmental Health in our organisations?

Environmental Health extends beyond workplace health and safety or environmental management. It connects the conditions that influence human health and wellbeing, from the food we eat and the places we live and work, to air quality, climate change, public health and the wider environment.

But how often do we consider these connections when communicating on Environmental Health topics?

As risks become increasingly interconnected, how can we communicate effectively to enable leaders see the bigger picture, recognise emerging threats and opportunities, and make choices that prevent harm before it occurs?

And how can we communicate the value of Environmental Health in ways that resonate across different functions, influence better decisions and contribute to healthier people, healthier organisations and long-term sustainability?

If these ideas resonate, join us and a panel of Environmental Health experts for the fifth episode in the IIRSM webinar series on Effective Risk Communication.

Hosted by Karen J. Hewitt, Fellow of the IIRSM and Director of Leaderlike, the Safety & Risk Communication Specialists, we’ll be asking the questions that find simple answers to these dilemmas and more.

Intrigued? Well here’s whose joining us for this episode....

Host - Karen J. Hewitt

Karen J. Hewitt is Director of Leaderlike Ltd. and has spent the last twelve years creating leadership movements for health and safety, both within large organisations and outside of them.  Combining transformational leadership with change communications, she breathes new life into traditional health, safety and wellbeing thinking and believes that transformational health and safety starts with leading, and communicating, in a way that breaks with the status quo. Her second book “People Power – Transform your Business in the Era of Safety and Wellbeing,” published in 2021, has won several awards and been an Amazon no. 1 bestseller multiple times.

Speakers

Phil Clarke

Head of Health, Safety & Wellbeing, Care UK

A chartered EHO and H&S practitioner, following retirement from the military after serving as an EHO, Phil worked in several sectors before focusing on health and social care, joining Nuffield Health as the Safety and Standards Assurance Manager for the hospital division in 2012, and promoted to Head of Health and Safety for the charity in 2017. After a period working in construction and facilities management, Phil returned to the health and social care sector as Head of Health, Safety, and Wellbeing at Care UK in 2022. Phil holds a degree in History, an MSc in Environmental Health, and is presently on his PhD journey, researching operational risk assessment following the Professional Doctorate pathway.

Louise Hosking

Governance, Risk & Organisational Systems Leader. Creator of The Choice Chain

Louise is a governance, risk and organisational systems thinker with over 35 years' experience spanning environmental health, occupational safety and executive leadership. A Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner, Chartered Occupational Safety and Health Professional and Past President of IOSH, she has advised organisations across the public, private and charitable sectors working at executive and board level to help navigate complex organisational change, governance and strategic risk.

Her work explores how leadership decisions shape organisational performance, environmental health, safety, wellbeing and wider societal outcomes. Louise is the creator of The Choice Chain, an emerging body of work that explores how today's decisions influence tomorrow's outcomes by strengthening judgement, governance and organisational learning before risks become visible.

A passionate advocate for long-term thinking, Louise is particularly interested in helping leaders recognise the connections between governance, risk, environmental health, sustainability and human outcomes, enabling organisations to make better decisions in an increasingly complex world.

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