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The future direction of health and safety at work
– HSENI’s view
JOINT NISG/IOSH MEETING
19th 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 +
BBC News: “Bosses at Butlins ban
bumper cars over health and safety fears”
“Health and safety rules gone mad!”
Daily Mail: “Pensioner, 85, paid council to
remove old TV... and was ordered to drag it
outside herself so workmen didn't injure
themselves”
Daily Mail:“Elf 'n' safety shuts Murray
Mount: Fans might slip on the grass, warn
officials”
BBC: “Schoolyard football games
banned ) unless the ball is made
of sponge”
Metro: “A school has banned
the sack and three�legged
races from its sports day in
case children fell over and
hurt themselves”
Daily Mail:Daily Mail:Daily Mail:Daily Mail:““““Children banned from their Children banned from their Children banned from their Children banned from their
own playground as health and safety own playground as health and safety own playground as health and safety own playground as health and safety
officials decide monkey bars are too officials decide monkey bars are too officials decide monkey bars are too officials decide monkey bars are too
dangerousdangerousdangerousdangerous””””
Hull Daily Mail: “Kite-flying ban on 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 co-enforcers the District Councils
? HSENI will seek out opportunities for engagement with those representing the broader health and safety “family”
Health and safety at Health and safety at
work: protecting lives, work: protecting lives,
not stopping themnot stopping them
A HSENI and District Council A HSENI and District Council
Strategy for the better regulation Strategy for the better regulation
of health and safety at work in of health and safety at work in
Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland
Vision
? A place where the sensible control of work-related 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)
31%
24%
21%
15%
9%Falls from height
Transport - Struck by moving vehicle
Animal - any injury by any animal
Struck by: moving, includingflying or falling object
Drowning, suffocation or asphyxiation
Fatal Injury Causation
15.0
17.0
19.0
21.0
23.0
25.0
27.0
29.0
31.0
33.0
35.0
2007/08 2008/09 2009/10
Year
% o
f M
ain
ten
an
ce r
ela
ted
fata
liti
es
Maintenance related fatal incidents
Major Injury Causation
33%
18%11%
9%
8%
21%Trip - Slip, trip or fall on same level.
Falls from Height
Struck by: moving, including flying or
Machinery - Contact with moving machineor material being machined.
Handling/Sprains - Injured while handling,
lifting or carrying - sprains & strains.
All Other Causes
falling object
Major Injury Causation
27%
20%11%
10%
32%
Handling/Sprains - Injured whilehandling, lifting or carrying -
sprains & strains.
Trip - Slip, trip or fall on samelevel.
Assault/Violence - Physicalassault or violence. - result of adeliberate criminal act.
Struck by: moving, including flyingor falling object- inc acc involvingpowered hand tools
All Other Causes
Over 3 Day Injury Causation
63021422009
53113392008
65229342007
All primary
or
secondary
cause
Mesothelioma
and
asbestosis
Asbestosis
without
mesothelioma
Mesothelioma
without
asbestosis
Primary/secondary cause
Registration
Year
Work-related ill health fatalities
Source: GRO
53%
24%
6%
3%14%
Musculoskeletal disorders
Stress, depression oranxiety
Breathing or lung problems
Hearing problems
Other types of complaint
Self reported Illness caused or
made worse by work
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.
Corporate Plan Priorities
? So after all this analysis, what do we plan to
do?
Protecting lives,
not stopping them!
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
Mixed feelings?
Targets
“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
