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Health Safety & Wellbeing Awareness. What’s your perception of Health and Safety?. What’s your perception of Health and Safety?. Why is Health Safety and Wellbeing law important?. First and foremost it’s to ensure you don’t suffer any adverse health effects from your work activities. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Health Safety & Wellbeing Awareness
What’s your perception of Health and Safety?
What’s your perception of Health and Safety?
Why is Health Safety and Wellbeing law important?
• First and foremost it’s to ensure you don’t suffer any adverse health effects from your work activities
Health Promotion!
Accident Prevention!
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
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 tax’s.
All of us pay tax!
Why is Health Safety and Wellbeing important cont..
History
Health and Safety legislation is not a new concept:-
•1830’s Factory Acts;
•1860’s Factory Inspectors;
•1870’s Chimney Sweeps;
•1891 Relevant Case Law;
•1974 H&S at work act.
H&S at Work Act 1974
DSE
Safe use of Work Equipment Regs
Management of H&S at Work Regs
Manual Handling Regs
PPE Regs
Workplace Health Safety & Welfare
Regs
The Six Pack
• 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.
“Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown”
Traditional proverbTraditional proverb.
H&S 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 H&S 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…….
CEOCEO
AEOAEO AEOAEO
DirectorsDirectors DirectorsDirectors
Deputy DirectorsDeputy Directors Deputy DirectorsDeputy Directors
Dept HeadsDept Heads Dept HeadsDept Heads
Senior managersSenior managers
SupervisorsSupervisors
Senior managersSenior managers
SupervisorsSupervisors
Main responsibility lies hereMain responsibility lies here
Responsibility is delegatedResponsibility is delegated
down the “chain of command” but remains with down the “chain of command” but remains with
Senior managementSenior management
Responsibility is proportional to the role you hold
Responsibilities
Health, Safety and Wellbeing, the truth!
Health Safety and Wellbeing TeamWho we are and what we do
Health Safety and Wellbeing Team
HSW LeadSean Oates
Senior HSW Advisor (Communities)
Dawn Bailey
Senior HSW
Advisor (ACS)
Andrew Wilkinson
Senior HSW Advisor
(CSF)Phil Rundle
Senior HSW Advisor
(CEO and Corporate Support)
Richard Greenwood
Senior HSW Advisor
(EPE)Jill Brown
Senior Safety Officer
Rob Ley
Senior Occupational Health Nurse
Alison Presswell
Administrative Manager
Lesley Rawicki
Admin Team (x6)Tanya Davis
Theresa SalmonDianne SealeLinda TaylorHannah RoweJodie Cocks
OH Nurses (x3)
Eileen RoweJanet BakerVacant post
Sessional OH Physician
Safety Officers (x4)Vacancy
Yvonne JenningsJuliet BryantTony Broad
EPE Health and Safety SecondmentBen Widdershoven
HSW Co-ordinatorRobin Harris
Technical Support Officer
Louise Seager
• 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
Health Safety and Wellbeing Team
http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/Default.aspx?page=18603
• 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?page=18783
Occupational Health Team
Confidential Counselling
• Cornwall Council service for staff and members• Relate Cornwall• Access by phone 01726 74007 and quoting the
reference REL • An appointment outside an individual’s normal
working hours will be made at a centre chosen by the individual.
• Free
• Contact your line manager/supervisor
How to obtain Health, Safety and Wellbeing advice
• HS&W dept (01872) 322118• Email : healthandsafety@cornwall.gov.uk• Fax : (01872) 323473
• Occupational Health (01872) 323138 • Email : occupationalhealth@cornwall.gov.uk• Fax : (01872) 323827
ANY QUESTIONS?
“If You always do what you always did, You’ll always get what you always got" Forest Gump.
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