Agenda for the Black Powder Ordnance Conference on Safe Use
Saturday October 8th 2011
at Sulhampstead Police Training Centre near Reading -
ask us for directions, Satnavs have odd ideas round there
Registration Coffees etc up to 10-10 30 am – please don’t arrive before 0900
10:30 Paul Brightwell Lifeboat Drill
10:40 Introductory comments Roger Emmerson as Convenor
10:50 Nick Hall Royal Armouries Fort Nelson, on the Cannon of the vessel formerly known as The Grand Turk
11:30 Break for Tea/Coffee
11:45 Progress on Explosives Legislative Review – a written statement on the current position so that we can ensure the wider blackpowder reenactment community is kept abreast of the position, from David Pascoe, to be read out by Paul Cramer
12:00 Danny Kaye IExE leads an Open Forum for questions on legislation affecting all explosives used in Re-enactment
13:00 Lunch
13:15 Stephen Miller IExE of LIVEACTION-FX on battlefield pyrotechnic effects
14:00 Inspection Regimes for small ordnance G. Shepheard and J Rushworth
14:45 Break
15:00 The proposed Firearms Licensing Review; the underlying principles, consultation and progress; Statement from The Public Order Unit, Crime & Policing Group, Home Office as they haven’t a speaker
15:30 Roger Emmerson & Chris King on The Value of Risk Assessment – a (warm) case study
16:00 Wrap; Steering Group meeting (all welcome) 15 minutes