Health Safety

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Health Safety Wellbeing Awareness
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Whats your perception of Health and Safety?
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Whats your perception of Health and Safety?
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Why is Health Safety and Wellbeing law important?

• First and foremost its to ensure you dont
  suffer any adverse health effects from your work
  activities

Health Promotion! Accident Prevention!
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Why is Health Safety and Wellbeing important?

• Reduce the number of accidents and incidents
• Reduced likelihood of litigation
• Reduced likelihood of enforcement action by
  Health and Safety Executive
• Reduced sickness absence, more timely return to
  work via occupational health
• Financial savings
• Morale/staff retention and recruitment

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Why is Health Safety and Wellbeing important
cont..
2006-2007 2,067,898

• 3.5 Chief Executives, or
• 4 Directors, or
• 9 Senior Managers, or
• 13 Practice Managers, or
• 17 Social Workers, or
• 30 Community Support Assistants, or
• 22 Residential Workers, or
• 33 Administrators, or
• 20 Admin Officers..
• for the same period of time
• The Council does not generate its own finances.
  The budget allocated to directorates comes, in
  the main, from the general public through taxs.
• All of us pay tax!

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History

• Health and Safety legislation is not a new
  concept-
• 1830s Factory Acts
• 1860s Factory Inspectors
• 1870s Chimney Sweeps
• 1891 Relevant Case Law
• 1974 HS at work act.

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HS at Work Act 1974
Workplace Health Safety Welfare Regs
PPE Regs
DSE
Manual Handling Regs
Safe use of Work Equipment Regs
Management of HS at Work Regs
The Six Pack
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• Risk Assessment

An assessment of risk is nothing more than a
careful examination of what, in your work, could
cause harm to people so that you can weigh up
whether you have taken enough precautions or
should do more
Regulation 3 Management of Health Safety at
Work 1999.
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• Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown
• Traditional proverb.

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HS at work act 1974 Responsibilities

• Section 2 Employers must as far as reasonably
  practicable, safeguard the health, safety and
  welfare of employees.
• Section 7 (a) To take reasonable care for the
  health safety of himself and others who may be
  affected by his acts or omissions
• (b) To co-operate with his employer, necessary,
  to enable his employer to comply with their HS
  duty
• Section 37 A breach of provisions (law) with the
  knowledge of, connivance of or has been
  attributable to the neglect of a Director,
  Manager, Secretary, or other Officer of that
  organisation.

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Responsibilities
Main responsibility lies here
Responsibility is delegated down the chain of
command but remains with Senior management
Responsibility is proportional to the role you
hold
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Health, Safety and Wellbeing, the truth!
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Health Safety and Wellbeing Team
Who we are and what we do
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Health Safety and Wellbeing Team
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Health Safety and Wellbeing Team

• Advice and guidance
• Monitoring and Auditing
• Incident reporting and investigation
• Project work
• Representation on national and corporate working
  groups committees
• Training
• Administration of Eye tests
• Liaison with enforcement agencies i.e. HSE

http//www.cornwall.gov.uk/Default.aspx?page18603

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Occupational Health Team

• Pre employment medical screening
• Work related Health surveillance
• Advice and guidance to directorates relating to
  employee health and wellbeing
• Medical assessment of employees absent through
  ill health.
• Assisting management ill health referrals
• Training.
• Liaison with specialist groups i.e. Red Poppy,
  Relate.
• Liaison with local health partnerships
• http//www.cornwall.gov.uk/Default.aspx?page18783
  

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Confidential Counselling

• Cornwall Council service for staff and members
• Relate Cornwall
• Access by phone [phone] and quoting the
  reference REL
• An appointment outside an individuals normal
  working hours will be made at a centre chosen by
  the individual. 
• Free

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How to obtain Health, Safety and Wellbeing advice

• Contact your line manager/supervisor

• HSW dept [phone]
• Email healthandsafety_at_cornwall.gov.uk
• Fax [phone]

• Occupational Health [phone]
• Email occupationalhealth_at_cornwall.gov.uk
• Fax [phone]

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ANY QUESTIONS?
If You always do what you always did, Youll
always get what you always got" Forest Gump.