Building Safety First: Getting ahead of regulation

11th Feb 2022

12.00 - 13:00

Webinar Overview

Find out where your organisation is in relation to building safety, where it needs to be, and how to get there.

Company leaders, fire and structural safety professionals, developers, building owners and managers, designers, architects, anyone with a responsibility for, or interest in, building safety.

How the Building a Safer Future Champions benchmarking and verification framework can provide practical tools to help your continuous improvement journey on building safety. Find out the benefits of becoming involved, what to expect when you embark on the journey and what you will learn on the way.

Presenter

GARY TOWNSEND VILA

BSF Charter Strategic Lead

Gary has over 25 years experience of working as a senior executive in the public, central and local government and not-for-profit sectors in a range of strategy, communications, corporate affairs and organisational development roles.
He joined Building a Safer Future Charter at the outset and worked with Chief Executive Amanda Long to develop the detailed proposals to Early Adopters and MHCLG to become administrative partner of the Building a Safer Future Charter.

Gary has been leading the work to develop the Charter’s benchmarking and independent verification framework and BSF Champion Company Status.

He was formerly Deputy Chief Executive at Creative Skillset (now Screenskills) the Sector Skills Council for the Creative Industries, and a strategic consultant for the international consumer movement. Gary has been a member of a number of government and industrial advisory and working groups particularly in the area of vocational skills and diversity and inclusion.