HSE Priorities in Kent (+ beyond!)

Mike WaltersHM Principal Inspector of Health & Safety

Kent Delivery Group, Ashford

Health and Safety Executive

Still busy in Kent!

• Still have around 4.5 FTE staff covering the county

• 9 fatal accidents since April 2010– Incl.: Health Services, Waste, Forestry, Gas,

Lesiure• Lots of domestic gas issues at present

– Winter months?– Cutting corners to save money?

• National inspection campaigns + local projects

Waste & Recycling – Skip Hire

• Inspections being targeted at skip-hire operations and associated recycling activities, particularly those where hand sorting of recyclables (‘totting’) takes place, and has specific emphasis on management of workplace transport risks.

• Help reduce accident rates in the industry

• Guidance on the project available– www.hse.gov.uk/foi/internalops/sectors/manuf/03-10-05.htm

Waste & Recycling – Skip Hire

Waste & Recycling – Skip Hire

LPG Inspection Campaign (Aim)

Assurance that LPG users and suppliers are undertaking sensible and proportionate management of risks arising from small and medium-sized bulk vessel LPG installations, including the replacement or ongoing inspection of buried metallic pipework

www.theiclinquiry.org/ - Main ICL Inquiry Website

www.theiclinquiry.org/Documents/Documents/HC838ICL_Inquiry_Report.pdf - Copy of Full Report

NB - Summary of Report can be found on main website

LPG - Risk assessment

• Risk ranking tool adapted from proven use for natural gas pipework replacement

• Inputs to questionnaire e.g. pipework material, age of pipework, gas pressure

• Post code linked to soil type from geological survey

• Inadequate or missing data – default values used

• Need to take into account actual site conditions when considering action and timescales

Risk ranking

• Higher, medium and lower risk

• Higher risk to be replaced within 4 years

• Suppliers have received ranked lists– Will inform customers of result

• Information passed to HSE– Visits by HSE/LA staff to higher risk sites

• Initially HSE said FOD would visit 2000 sites by the end of March 2010. Now revised to be 3000 visits by end of March 2011

Inspection campaign

• Enforcement led campaign (both by HSE and the LAs)

• Service pipework and tank– Non-domestic– Gas phase pipework (but now picking

up liquid phase)– Not caravan sites or metered estates

(separate exercise – but one or two have been picked up)

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LPG Inspection Campaign Info

• HSE Operational Minute – OM 2009/08– www.hse.gov.uk/foi/internalops/fod/om/2009/08.htm

• HSE Operational Circular – OC 286/105 (rev2)– www.hse.gov.uk/foi/internalops/fod/oc/200-299/286-105.htm

• Topic pack– www.hse.gov.uk/foi/internalops/fod/inspect/lpg.pdf

• Other useful information– www.hse.gov.uk/gas/lpg.htm– www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg428.pdf– www.hse.gov.uk/gas/lpg/safeuse.pdf

CAVE 2010

• Joint IOSH/LA/HSE/KFRS event on 18 October 2010• Brands Hatch – 300 delegates including 100+ MVR students

CAVE 2010

• 38 x LA enforced premises visited• 134 x HSE enforced premises visited• 139 Officer Days (HSE + LA but does not include

KFRS)• 107 Instant Visit Reports (IVRs) issued• Improvement Notices (INs) served

• 6 in LA premises• 50 in HSE premises

• Prohibition Notices (PNs)• 5 in LA premises• 24 in HSE premises

• (Plus a possible PR – non-compliance with an IN)

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CAVE Guidance

• MVR website

• www.hse.gov.uk/mvr/index.htm

• Example Risk Assessments– Motor vehicle repair body

shop– Motor vehicle mechanical

repair shop– Motor vehicle showroom

• MVR Forum

www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/priced/hsg261.pdf

Lord Young ReviewCommon Sense, Common Safety

• Review published in mid October 2010– www.number10.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/402906_CommonSense_acc.pdf

• Lots of recommendations and key milestones set out in the report

• HSE publishes online low risk office assessment tool in mid October 2010

– www.hse.gov.uk/risk/office.htm

• Occupational Safety & Health Consultants Register (OSHCR) started 31/1/2011

– http://www.hse.gov.uk/oshcr/index.htm

• Lord Young resigns – mid November 2010

Spending Review 2010 (SR10)

HSE to make at least 35% savings over the 4 years from April 2011

In seeking to achieve savings of at least 35 per cent over the SR10 period, we will share more of the cost with those businesses who create risks, while reducing burdens on low-risk businesses

Charging………………??Health and Safety and the HSE – What the spending cuts will mean

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Occupational Safety & Health – Report & Recommendations

www.pcs.org.uk/en/health-and-safety-executive/

Questions???