The annual Black Powder Ordnance Conference - ORDCON 2011 - is being held on 8th October at the Thames Valley Police training centre at Sulhamstead near Reading. I have copied and pasted the agenda from the ORDCON Facebook page. ( Those who know me will see that I am one of the speakers). Any BOCN members wishing to attend will need to register. Please PM me for more details.
Agenda for the Black Powder Ordnance Conference 8th October 2011 at Sulhampstead Police Training Centre
by ORDCON
Registration Coffees etc up to 10-1030 am
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 Kay MIExpE leads an Open Forum for questions on legislation affecting all explosives used in Re-enactment
13:15 Lunch
13:30 Stephen Miller MIExpE of LIVEACTION-FX on Pyrotechnic effects
14:15 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; Speaker, TBC from The Public Order Unit, Crime and Policing Group, Home Office
15:45 Roger Emmerson & Chris King on The Value of Risk Assessment - a (warm) case study
16:15 Wrap; Steering Group meeting (all welcome) 15 minutes
Agenda for the Black Powder Ordnance Conference 8th October 2011 at Sulhampstead Police Training Centre
by ORDCON
Registration Coffees etc up to 10-1030 am
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 Kay MIExpE leads an Open Forum for questions on legislation affecting all explosives used in Re-enactment
13:15 Lunch
13:30 Stephen Miller MIExpE of LIVEACTION-FX on Pyrotechnic effects
14:15 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; Speaker, TBC from The Public Order Unit, Crime and Policing Group, Home Office
15:45 Roger Emmerson & Chris King on The Value of Risk Assessment - a (warm) case study
16:15 Wrap; Steering Group meeting (all welcome) 15 minutes