Download - Health and safety - facts not fiction
Health and Safety Executive
Health and Safety Executive
Breakout Session B7
‘Elf &Safety’
the facts, not the fiction.
• Who or what is HSE
• HSE & Voluntary Sector
Who or what is HSE?
Kids must wear goggle to play conkers
Who or what is HSE?
• Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is the national independent watchdog for work-related health, safety and illness.
• We are an independent regulator and act in the public interest to reduce work-related death and serious injury across Great Britain’s workplaces.
• HSE’s emphasis is on prevention, during a visit we check the standards of health, safety and welfare in your business and give you advice on how to prevent people being made ill or injured at work.
Myth: HSE has banned stepladders
Risk management is NOT about
• Creating a totally risk free society
• Generating useless paperwork mountains
• Scaring people by exaggerating or publicising trivial risks
• Stopping important activities
• Reducing protection of people from risks that cause real harm and suffering
So what do we advocate?
• Sensible health and safety management
Sensible risk management IS about
• Ensuring that workers and the public are properly protected
• Benefiting society
• Enabling innovation and learning
• Those who create the risks being required to manage them responsibly
• Exercising responsibility
Health and Safety Legislation
• Health and Safety at Work Etc Act 1974
• Management of health and safety at work regulations 1998
WHO else enforces health & safety?
• LOCAL AUTHORITIES– Environmental Health
• SAME LEGISLATION
• SAME POWERS
HSE enforces in…
• Construction
• Agriculture
• Factories
• Quarries
• Utilities
• National/local government
• Police/hospitals/ education
• Nuclear installations
• Offshore industries
• Onshore major hazards
Local authorities enforce in…
• Most offices
• Retail businesses
• Wholesale businesses
• Leisure industries
• Catering
• Hotels
• Residential accommodation
• Etc…
HSE and the voluntary sector
Managing low risk - what do voluntary organisations need to do?
• If your voluntary organisation is an employer
• If your voluntary organisation has responsibility for non-domestic premises (eg a village or community hall)
Risk assessment is too complicated for me to do!
• Carrying out a risk assessment should be straightforward. It's about focusing on real risks and hazards that cause real harm and, more importantly, taking action to control them.
Risk Assessment
• Low risk activities
• Higher hazard activities
How do civil law and health and safety law apply
• Understanding which type of law applies
• Civil law and the duty of care
How to contact HSE
• Complaints and Advisory Team on 0300 0031647 in office hours.
• Search on HSE
• www.hse.gov.uk
THANK YOU
DIOLCH YN FAWR