CONIAC Health Risk Management Working Group

Presentation to CONIAC

18th March 2014

Presentation byKevin Fear

Purpose

CITB health risk management and how we engage with industry

To encourage all members of CONIAC to consider and act upon how they could promote improved health risk management

Introduction

1. Background – CITB Health and Safety Strategy 2010

Approved by the Health, Safety and Environment Committee in 2010

• To encourage strong leadership to champion health and safety in the workplace.

• To help all who work in the industry recognise real health and safety issues and to be able to manage and control them

• To help define and develop competent companies and individuals (the right blend of skills, knowledge, behaviour, training and experience)

• To reinforce the need for worker involvement and consultation in health and safety matters throughout unionised and non-unionised workplaces

• To specifically target key health issues

• To adapt and customise approaches to help the increasing numbers of SMEs in different sectors comply with their health and safety obligations.

2. Examples of deliverables against the 2010 strategy

To specifically target key health issues

• Publications (GE700, GE706 toolbox talks)

• HS&E Test refreshed with new respiratory risks questions

• Asbestos Awareness (category A training) online e-learning pilot

• NCC Stay Well At Work 6 half-day modulesGeneral health & well being,

Noise, Vibration, Respiratory risks

Skin and Musculoskeletal disorders

• NCC / Loughborough Uni – SKInS(Sensory and Kinesthetic Interactive Simulations)

• The Construction Dust Partnership (CDP) webpages hosted on CITB website www.citb.co.uk/cdp

2. Examples of deliverables against the 2010 strategy

To specifically target key health issues

2. Examples of deliverables against the 2010 strategy

To specifically target key health issues

3. Current industry performance, drivers and requirements

Safety and occupational health

Industrial Strategy for Construction 2025 (drivers for change)

• We must build on the achievements of the highest performing projects so that zero harm becomes the norm across the industry.

• 70% of fatal accidents now occur in the SME sector. • We must address standards on small projects properly so that they match those achieved on larger

projects.

3. Current industry performance, drivers and requirements

HSE latest figures in construction – continuing need to address ill health issues

• There were an estimated 74,000 total cases and 31,000 thousand new cases of work-related ill health

• About 3,700 occupational cancer cases* are estimated to arise each year as a result of past exposures in the construction sector

*Dr Lesley Rushton, Report on the burden of occupational cancer in constructionNew cases each year:• 2771 Asbestos 707 silica• 841 UV sunlight 334 Painters and decorators• 290 DEE 471 Tars (Roofers, road workers)

4. Proposed CITB HS&E strategy 2014

(the following blue text is new content/wording – black text is from 2010 strategy)

Essence of the strategy:

‘CITB will support the construction industry to both deliver a competent, healthy and safe workforce, and minimise its impact on the environment’.

Related to health risk management - by:

• having a greater focus on key occupational health topics such as respiratory risks and occupational cancers as well as general health and well being..

Cont…

Thank you