PRIORITIES IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR

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PRIORITIES IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR

• Chris Gillies
• HSE Principal Inspector

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The problem

• Cost of Sickness Absence 4 bn
• MSD Mental ill-health 3.2 bn (80)
• STRESS single biggest cause

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Main causes of injury

• Manual handling
• Slips/trips
• Violence aggression

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HSE priorities

• Stress
• Managing Sickness Absence (MSA) Return to Work
  (RTW)

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Stress

• To ensure that your organisation has completed or
  is completing a suitable and sufficient risk
  assessment for WRS
• Using HSEs Management Standards for WRS or an
  equivalent approach

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MSA/RTW

• To encourage good practice on
• MSA/RTW in the public sector
• Eg HSG 249 Managing Sickness Absence and Return
  to work

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HSE INSPECTION TOOL

• Main thrust of the intervention Stress
• Inspectors will be using an Inspection Tool
• To assist in identifying what stage your
  organisation is at
• To benchmark the action that been taken against
  performance indicators