Coastal Training Technologies

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Coastal Training Technologies

• Training Guide

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Hindsight

• explains the injury that foresight could have
  prevented
• Ken Woodward is an amazing inspiration and a
  poignant reminder of the real life consequences
  of workplace accidents.

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Kens Accident

• In November 1990 Ken Woodward was working at a
  major soft drink companys bottling plant in Kent
• He was asked by his manager to do a task that he
  was not trained to do
• Ken didnt use the appropriate PPE
• When the chemicals were mixed, a chemical
  reaction occurred, which led to an explosion
• Kens face, nasal passage and mouth were badly
  burned
• He lost his eyesight, smell and taste because of
  it

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Workplace Accidents

• 2.2 million people are suffering from an illness
  they believed was caused or made worse by their
  current or past work.
• 646,000 of these were new cases in the last 12
  months
• Last year 241 workers were killed at work, a rate
  of 0.8 per 100,000 workers
• 6 million days were lost overall (1.5 days per
  worker)

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Why must Workplace Accidents be prevented?

• Moral reasons
• Legal reasons
• Economic reasons

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Moral Reasons Who is affected by an accident?

• The Victim
• The Victims family and friends
• Work colleagues
• Management
• Everybody should have the right to work in
  a safe and healthy workplace free from fear of
  injury due to poor practice or negligence

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Legal Reasons

• The Employer has a duty under the law
• There may be prosecutions/legal proceedings and
  if proven guilty
• Fines and/or even imprisonment

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Economic Reasons

• Damage to tools/equipment
• Spoiled Work
• Absence cover costs
• Counseling may need to be provided (victim, other
  workers)
• Management time spent on admin/investigation etc
• Production shutdown time
• Failure to meet orders/deadlines
• Legal/compensation fees
• Good safety is good business!

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Factors behind workplace accidents

• Human Factors
• No Safe System of Work
• PPE (availability, training for use of and
  condition)
• Risk Assessment Failures
• Training not updated and/or provided
• Turning a blind eye poor Safety Culture

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• In preventing workplace injuries and ill health,
  companies must develop a strong Safety Culture

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Safety Culture

• The companys collective values, beliefs,
  attitude and behaviour
• It is the extent to which every employee looks
  after one another
• Its how we do things around here

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Lessons to be learned(from Hindsight)

• Do you have a potential Ken in your workplace
  at present?
• How can you prevent a similar incident from
  happening BEFORE the accident?

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Ken now

• He was awarded the OBE for his services to Health
  and Safety by the Queen in 2006
• He is a passionate advocator of Health and
  Safety, speaking around the world on the topic -
  for the benefit of others, so they dont suffer
  like he has.

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Coastal Training provides training materials
which covers a wide variety of topics in
different formats.

• Website http//www.coastaltraining.co.uk/
• Phone no. 0-800-169-3084 ext. 1723, 1726, 1729
• Email info_at_coastaltraining.co.uk
• Watch the DVD programmes Hindsight The Ken
  Woodward Story and Lessons from a Blind School
  online on our website or send an email to request
  a free preview

Previews will be sent for a 5 days review period.
The only obligation of the customer is to return
it at own expenses to our central warehouse
location by means of courier. Ask our
representatives for more details.