Health Safety & Wellbeing Awareness
What’s your perception of Health and Safety?
What’s your perception of Health and Safety?
Why is Health Safety and Wellbeing law important? • First and foremost it’s to ensure you don’t suffer any adverse health effects from your work activities
Health Promotion! Accident Prevention!
Why is Health Safety and Wellbeing important? • Reduce the number of accidents and incidents • Reduced likelihood of litigation • Reduced likelihood of enforcement action by Health and Safety Executive • Reduced sickness absence, more timely return to work via occupational health • Financial savings • Morale/staff retention and recruitment
Why is Health Safety and Wellbeing important cont..
2006-2007 = £2,067,898 • • • • • • • • •
3.5 4 9 13 17 30 22 33 20
Chief Executives, or Directors, or Senior Managers, or Practice Managers, or Social Workers, or Community Support Assistants, or Residential Workers, or Administrators, or Admin Officers……..
for the same period of time •
The Council does not generate its own finances. The budget allocated to directorates comes, in the main, from the general public through tax’s.
All of us pay tax!
History Health and Safety legislation is not a new concept:•1830’s
Factory Acts;
•1860’s
Factory Inspectors;
•1870’s
Chimney Sweeps;
•1891
Relevant Case Law;
•1974
H&S at work act.
H&S at Work Act 1974
DSE Safe use of Work Equipment Regs
The Six Pack
Workplace Health Safety & Welfare Regs
PPE Regs
Manual Handling Regs
Management of H&S at Work Regs
• Risk Assessment
“An assessment of risk is nothing more than a careful examination of what, in your work, could cause harm to people so that you can weigh up whether you have taken enough precautions or should do more”
Regulation 3: Management of Health & Safety at Work 1999.
“Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown” Traditional proverb.
H&S at work act 1974 Responsibilities Section 2 : Employers must as far as reasonably practicable, safeguard the health, safety and welfare of employees. Section 7: (a) To take reasonable care for the health & safety of himself and others who may be affected by his acts or omissions (b) To co-operate with his employer, necessary, to enable his employer to comply with their H&S duty Section 37: A breach of provisions (law) with the knowledge of, connivance of or has been attributable to the neglect of a Director, Manager, Secretary, or other Officer of that organisation…….
Responsibilities Main responsibility lies here
CEO
AEO
Directors
Deputy Directors
Dept Heads
AEO
Directors
Deputy Directors
Responsibility is delegated down the “chain of command” but remains with Senior management
Dept Heads
Senior managers
Senior managers
Supervisors
Supervisors
Responsibility is proportional to the role you hold
Health, Safety and Wellbeing, the truth!
Health Safety and Wellbeing Team Who we are and what we do
Health Safety and Wellbeing Team HSW Lead Sean Oates
Senior HSW Advisor (Communities) Dawn Bailey
HSW Co-ordinator Robin Harris
Senior HSW Advisor (ACS) Andrew Wilkinson
Senior HSW Advisor (CSF) Phil Rundle
Senior HSW Advisor (CEO and Corporate Support) Richard Greenwood
Senior HSW Advisor (EPE) Jill Brown
EPE Health and Safety Secondment Ben Widdershoven
Senior Safety Officer Rob Ley
Safety Officers (x4) Vacancy Yvonne Jennings Juliet Bryant Tony Broad
Senior Occupational Health Nurse Alison Presswell
OH Nurses (x3) Eileen Rowe Janet Baker Vacant post
Sessional OH Physician
Administrative Manager Lesley Rawicki
Admin Team (x6) Tanya Davis Theresa Salmon Dianne Seale Linda Taylor Hannah Rowe Jodie Cocks
Technical Support Officer Louise Seager
Health Safety and Wellbeing Team • • • • •
Advice and guidance Monitoring and Auditing Incident reporting and investigation Project work Representation on national and corporate working groups & committees • Training • Administration of Eye tests • Liaison with enforcement agencies i.e. HSE http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/Default.aspx?page=18603
Occupational Health Team • Pre employment medical screening • Work related Health surveillance • Advice and guidance to directorates relating to employee health and wellbeing • Medical assessment of employees absent through ill health. • Assisting management ill health referrals • Training. • Liaison with specialist groups i.e. Red Poppy, Relate. • Liaison with local health partnerships • http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/Default.aspx?page=18783
Confidential Counselling • Cornwall Council service for staff and members • Relate Cornwall • Access by phone 01726 74007 and quoting the reference REL • An appointment outside an individual’s normal working hours will be made at a centre chosen by the individual. • Free
How to obtain Health, Safety and Wellbeing advice • Contact your line manager/supervisor • HS&W dept (01872) 322118 • Email :
[email protected] • Fax : (01872) 323473 • Occupational Health (01872) 323138 • Email :
[email protected] • Fax : (01872) 323827
ANY QUESTIONS?
“If You always do what you always did, You’ll always get what you always got" Forest Gump.
