Health and Safety Executive

Health and Safety Executive

HSE Workplan / Priorities / Direction /

investigations

Andrew Kingscott

HM Principal Inspector Bristol

• Direction / issues

• Work plan / business plan

• Local Issues

• Recent

Prosecutions/Investigations/outcomes

Wider Strategy

• Helping Great Britain work well

• Getting risk management right is an

enabler for productivity, innovation

and growth and is integral to business

success as well as the wellbeing of

workers.

• Britain has a health and safety record

we can all be very proud of – it’s one

of the best in the world. But we also

know that we can be even better.

GB H&S Strategy

6 Key themes

• Acting together.

• Tackling ill health.

• Managing risk well

• Supporting small employers

• Keeping pace with change

• Sharing our success

GB H&S Strategy + events

• Does your personal contribution to health and

safety really help others - or hinder?

• Is ownership and responsibility for health and

safety in the right place in your organisation?

• Is it focussed on the right things?

• What could you personally do differently in 2016

that will really help us to create an even better

health and safety system in GB?

• Are you prepared to make a resolution to do

something different in 2016?

HSE Business Plan 2015/16

• Mission: The prevention of death, injury

and ill health to those at work and those

affected by work activities

• Lead others to improve health and safety

in the workplace

• Provide an effective regulatory framework

• Secure compliance with the law

• Reduce the likelihood of low frequency,

high-impact catastrophic incidents

HSE 2020 – 5 year plan

• sustaining regulatory excellence;

• growing commercial activities;

• investing in people and capability;

• driving operational effectiveness and

efficiencies.

HSE 2020 – 5 year plan

• The challenge

• 1.2 million workers – work related illness

• 13000 deaths occ lung disease/cancer

• 133 deaths 77000 injuries

• 28.2 million working days lost

• £14.2 Billion cost

HSE 2020 – 5 year plan

• © 19000 targeted inspections (87% action)

• 1100 major hazards visits

• 3280 investigations

• 10000 notices 600 Prosecutions

• 32 million hits on HSE website

• Simplified guidance to 300000 SMEs

• 53000 visits to the asbestos App

• £17 commercial income

HSE work plan - proactive

• Maintain focus – intelligence led

• High risk sectors – poor performers -

HSE work - reactive

• Construction / Asbestos

• Legionella

• Gas

• Machinery guarding

• Vehicle movements

Construction Proactive Interventions

• Refurbishment Initiative – Sept/Oct

• Health embedded in all interventions

Construction - Unsafe Work at

Height (The usual)

Front Rear

Refurbishment Initiative

Number of sites 217

Number of sites in MB 91 (42%)

Sites with Notices 43 (20%)

No PNs 33

No INs 38

Proactive PRs 1

Construction - Unsafe Plant

Construction: Unsafe Plant

Construction: Unsafe plant

Construction Unsafe Demolition

Construction: Unsafe Demolition

Construction: unsafe demolition

Construction: overhead cables

Struck by material

Struck by material

Construction: overhead cables

Other failings

Schools

Gas

Current investigations

• Arm off

• Fall from a sling

• Cattle trampling

• MEWP overturn

• Permits to work

• LOTO

• Crushing

• Gas

• Fragile material

New sentencing guidelines

• Revised arrangements

• Could see significant increases in fines

for large organisations – based on turn

over

• Consideration of HARM, CULPABILITY

• Prosecutor duty to assist on sentencing

• Changes re Policy – Individuals.

New sentencing guidelines

• Step 1: Harm/Culpability

• Step 2: Aggravating factors (mitigation)

• Step 3: Step back – meet general

principals

• Step 4: Any other factors

• S7/S36/S37 – HARM / CUPLABILITY –

aggravating Custody/Community - Fine

Questions?