Health and Safety Matters

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Health and Safety Matters !

• David Mason CMIOSH, Dip 2 OSH, MCMI June 2006

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Whats it all about then?

• Ethical and Moral Considerations
• HSE figures for 2004/2005 - employees
• 220 killed at work
• 30,666 serious injuries
• 129,104 over three days
• Legal Requirements
• Financial Considerations

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What does this mean for you?
We continue to drive for a zero accident
performance site wide and last year many plants
demonstrated that this is achievable. We received
a number of RoSPA awards for safety. Barry
Snelson, Managing Director, May 2006
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Not a Bolt On
Various established management systems.. Qualit
y - ISO 9001 Environment - ISO 14001 Two Health
and Safety Management Systems.. Successful HS
Management commonly known as HSG65.. OHSAS 18001
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HSG 65
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OHSAS 18001
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Policy
Legal Requirement to be written down for those
with five or more employees needs to
include What you want to achieve.. Who is
responsible for achieving it.. How you are going
to go about it..
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Organising

• Communication
• Co-operation
• Control
• Competency

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Measuring
OUTCOME

Fatality
Major injury
Accident
Minor injury
Event
Property damage
Near miss
Incident
Hazard
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Measuring
Two rates of measurement commonly
used.. Incidence rate - number of
employees Frequency rate - number of hours E.g.
Number of Events x 100,000 / Hours
worked Calculated to benchmark data
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Conclusions

• You need to have..
• A demonstrable management system and policy
• Evidence of its implementation and use
• Robust risk assessment processes
• Trained and competent supervision and staff
• Good health and safety performance

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Is it worth the effort?

• Better health and safety performance can bring..
• A reduction in the number of accidents
• A reduction in lost time from accidents
• Less compensation claims
• Lower insurance premiums
• More efficient working practices
• A bite at the cherry working for larger
  companies

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Can we help?
West Cumbria Supply Chain Project.. Our project
is prepared to consider helping SMEs in this area
if they feel that it will help them in winning
more contracts.