HSE Mega-Trends: The forces reshaping safety and what they mean for the OHS practitioner

James PomeroyGroup HSES Director

Change is influencing everything we do:

• The theories we use

• The work we do

• The technologies we apply

• The outcomes we seek

Volatile | Uncertain | Complex | Ambiguous

The world of OHS is being disrupted

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Six mega-trends reshaping and challenging OHS

Demographic Change

Mental Health and Stress

New Theories; New Approaches

Data, Digital & Technology

The Changing World of Work

Mega-trend:

A macro-economic

global change that

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that we’re seeking

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” Fitness & Chronic Ill-health

1 Demographic Change

• Change a both ends of spectrum

• Life longer, worker longer

• Gen Z: A new type of employee

• A more representative workforce

• Reducing work tenure

Demographic changeAge | Diversity | Gender | Tenure

3.7 million more

workers > 50 700k fewer

workers < 5071% female

employmentA more inclusive

workforce

Addressing the demographic challenge

• Digitalisation

• Health and well-being

• Visual literacy

• Bitesize & self-learning

• Mobile engagement

• Engagement through storytelling

• Democratization of learning

Examples of the changes LR is taking

Mobile engagement StorytellingVisual literacyVR training

2 New Theories; New Approaches

New thinking is disrupting our thinking

Safety Differently vs. Zero Harm

Root cause vs. HOP

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UK Fatal and Serious Injuries

Number of Major Injuries Fatal injury per 100,000 workers

New Theories; New Approaches

The performance plateau

Where we focus:

• Severity vs. Frequency

• Health and wellbeing

What we monitor:

• Precursors and HIPOs

• Employee wellbeing

Where we learn:

• Where things go right

• Work as done

Adopting the New Thinking

Examples of the changes LR is making

Precursors modelling for HIPOs Practical training for high risks

68 procedures 620 pages

92% reduction in processes

Simplifying processes

24 standards 48 pages

3 Safety Technology

New technologies to keep people safe:

• IoT remote sensing

• AI and data analytics

• Smart PPE

• Drones, Robots and Cobots

The need for SafetyTech

• Controls are primitive and fallible

• Disconnected and siloed

• Lagging data

• Absence of evidence and insight

• Lack of real-time monitoring

• Expectations rising; performance

plateauing

Paper Safe: The fallibility of existing safety systems

SafetyTech

• Digitalises safety hardware

• IoT enabled

• Operates in a connected

network

• Provides data to improve

performance

Defining it

Connecting Controls

Connected sensors / alerts Connected assets

IoT Smart PPEand wearables

Reducing Risk Exposure

Robots / Cobots Augmented reality Drones

Analysing and Improving

Data analyticsArtificial intelligence

Examples of the changes LR is making

SafetyScanner

Data analytics software using text analytics to incident data

LR Safety Accelerator

Fast-tracking the growth of emerging safety technologies

Piloting SafetyTech

Trialling SafetyTech to reduce high risk inspection work

What does this require OHS Practitioners?

Curiosity Evidential VulnerabilityRisk-taking

Different skills for new challenges