The future direction of health and safety at work HSENI s view JOINT NISG/IOSH MEETING 19 th September 2011
Welcome to the health and safety maze. Few find the Exit
The future direction of health and safety at work HSENI s view? Long term next 10 years +? Medium term next 4 years? Short term this current year? Key campaigns Bryan Monson? Questions
LONG TERM next 10 years +
Health and safety rules gone mad! Daily Mail: Pensioner, 85, paid council to BBC News: Bosses at Butlins ban remove old TV... and was ordered to drag it Daily bumper outside BBC: Mail: Elf cars Schoolyard 'n' safety herself over so workmen health football shuts Murray and didn't safety injure games fears Mount: Fans might slip on the grass, warn themselves Metro: A school has banned officials banned - unless the ball is made the sack and three-legged Daily of sponge Mail: Children banned from their races from its sports day in own playground as health and safety case children fell over and officials Hull Daily decide Mail: Kite-flying monkey bars ban are on too hurt themselves dangerous East Riding Beaches
The Lord Young Dimension? Lord Young Report to PM Oct 2010? Whitehall-wide review of the operation of health and safety laws and the growth of the compensation culture? 36 recommendations? 17 directly related to health and safety
Common Sense Common Safety? Simplify risk assessment (7)? Low risk SME guidance (1)? Professional health and safety consultants (2)? Reduce the number of regulations (2)? Amend RIDDOR (2)? HSE and large multi site retail operations (1)? Special view of police and fire-fighters (1)? Abolish Adventure Activities Licensing (1)
Good Health and Safety, Good for Everyone? Department of Work and Pensions March 2011? The next steps in the Government s plans for reform of the health and safety system in Britain? Launch of the? Making health and safety simpler? Review of health and safety legislation (Lofstedt)? New Health and Safety Framework
New Health and Safety Framework? Impact on HSE in Great Britain? Joint Working with Industry? Targeting and reducing inspections? Cost recovery for breaches of the law? Local authorities also to reduce inspections
Croner s Health and Safety Management Newsletter - 09 Sept 2011? Did health and safety cause broken Britain?? The Prime Minister, David Cameron, has called for a review of government policies following August s riots to ensure they are bold enough to fix a broken society, pointing to the obsession with health and safety as one of the aspects needing attention.
Impact on Health and Safety in NI? HSENI will be informed by but not lead by developments in GB? HSENI over the next 4 years commits to growing its service delivery and minimising the impacts of budgetary pressures? HSENI in doing so will work closely with its coenforcers the District Councils? HSENI will seek out opportunities for engagement with those representing the broader health and safety family
Health and safety at work: protecting lives, not stopping them A HSENI and District Council Strategy for the better regulation of health and safety at work in Northern Ireland
Vision? A place where the sensible control of workrelated risk is the norm and work-related deaths, injuries and ill-health are the exception.
To significantly reduce the number of work-related fatalities, injuries and cases of ill-health in Northern Ireland
The 10 Goals 1. Working together 2. Sensible risk management 3. Focus on key workplace health issues 4. Building capacity 5. Vulnerable groups 6. Targeted intervention and enforcement 7. Working with other regulators 8. The wider perspective 9. Leadership 10.The role of others
MEDIUM TERM next 4 years
HSENI Corporate Plan 2011-15? 4 year plan? derives directly from joint strategy? sets out how HSENI will meet the ten strategic goals through its five key objectives:? service delivery;? promotion;? communication;? inspection and investigation; and? regulation
HSENI will continue to stand by its three key tenets of:? working with small businesses, without the threat of enforcement, to help them gain a foothold in the management of health and safety at work;? identifying and recognising those businesses and organisations who already manage health and safety to the highest level and through this recognition encourage others to emulate them; and? rooting out and bringing to justice those who flout the law and put the lives and health of workers and the general public at risk.
But what are we going to focus on and why?? Analysis of injury and ill health data for 3 years between 2007 and 2010 (trailing indicators)? RIDDOR? LFS? GRO? HSE Research? Other indicators (e.g. LFHC events)
Fatal Injury Causation 15% 9% 31% Falls from height Transport - Struck by moving vehicle Animal - any injury by any animal 21% 24% Struck by: moving, including flying or falling object Drowning, suffocation or asphyxiation
Maintenance related fatal incidents % of Maintenance related fatalities 35.0 33.0 31.0 29.0 27.0 25.0 23.0 21.0 19.0 17.0 15.0 2007/08 2008/09 2009/10 Year
Major Injury Causation Major Injury Causation 21% 33% Trip - Slip, trip or fall on same level. Falls from Height 8% Struck by: moving, including flying or falling object 9% 11% 18% Machinery - Contact with moving machine or material being machined. Handling/Sprains - Injured while handling, lifting or carrying - sprains & strains. All Other Causes
Over 3 Day Injury Causation Handling/Sprains - Injured while handling, lifting or carrying - sprains & strains. 32% 27% Trip - Slip, trip or fall on same level. Assault/Violence - Physical assault or violence. - result of a deliberate criminal act. 10% 11% 20% Struck by: moving, including flying or falling object- inc acc involving powered hand tools All Other Causes
Work-related ill health fatalities Primary/secondary cause Registration Year Mesothelioma without asbestosis Asbestosis without mesothelioma Mesothelioma and asbestosis All primary or secondary cause 2007 34 29 2 65 2008 39 13 1 53 2009 42 21 0 63 Source: GRO
Self reported Illness caused or made worse by work 6% 3% 14% Musculoskeletal disorders Stress, depression or anxiety Breathing or lung problems 24% 53% Hearing problems Other types of complaint Source: HSE
? Low Frequency, High Consequence Events? release of hazardous chemicals? major fuel oil fire and explosion, e.g. Buncefield? legionnaire s disease, e.g. Barrow? E coli 0157 infections, e.g. Godstone? Carbon Monoxide Poisoning? 62 deaths from CO poisoning in the past ten years, e.g. Castlerock, Irvinestown.
Protecting Corporate Plan Priorities lives, not stopping them!? So after all this analysis, what do we plan to do?
Corporate Plan Priorities 1. Falls from Height 2. Transport in the Workplace 3. Handling Livestock 4. Maintenance Activities 5. Manual handling and Repetitive Work 6. Exposure to asbestos fibres 7. Slips and Trips 8. Work related Stress 9. Major Accident Hazards 10. Public Health Incidents 11. Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Awareness
Overarching Corp Plan Target? 10% reduction in the number of reportable work-related injuries recorded by the enforcing authorities, based on the 2008/09 figure of 3,106
Objectives & Key Performance Targets? Service delivery - Customer Care Charter; NIAO recommendations? Promotion - 600 local promotional events? Information - distribute 500,000 items of published information/advisory material; mentoring to 1,200 small businesses? Inspection - 24,000 inspections; enforcement action? Regulation submit to Department within 6 months of GB
Targets Mixed feelings? Bummer of a birthmark, Hal
SHORT TERM this current year
HSENI Operating Plan 2011/12? Carries through the 10 Goals of the joint strategy and the 11 Priorities of the Corporate Plan
Objective Service Delivery? UKAS Accreditation? Customer Care Charter? Centralised accident reporting? Public Prosecution Service for NI? Cross Border Working Groups? Access to information
Objective Promotion? Seminars covering construction, quarries, manufacturing, asbestos, stress? Gas Safe Register? Stay Farm Safe? Spring Conference? Carbon Monoxide? Emerging Businesses - HSWNI
Objective - Information? Open farms - E Coli? Trade apprentices - asbestos exposure? MSD s - construction and rail workers? HSENI e-newsletter? b safe when u start? Stay Farm Safe? BuildHealth? Small business mentoring - HSWNI
Objective - Inspection and Investigation? Safe maintenance? inspection initiatives focussing on mobile construction plant, machinery, legionella, explosives, asbestos.? Vulnerable groups? 6,000 inspections? Accident/complaint investigation
Objective - Regulation? CD s in relation to fees, OELV s, mines, asbestos and RIDDOR? Regulations covering carriage of dangerous goods, FA/OSPA, docks and petroleum licensing
Sentencing? Lord Chief Justice s Priority Sentencing List - Health and safety offences causing death? H&S offences to be included in new Magistrates Court Sentencing Guidelines? Sentencing Guidelines - Comments to DOJ by 18 January 2011