Health and Safety Executive

HSE UPDATE

Mark Dawson Netherwood Hotel, 17th September 2015

I shall cover today…

• Local Fatal accidents

• Local Prosecutions

• Subjects of Enforcement Notices

• HSE Areas of Work for 2015/16

• CDM 2015

• Discussion

Statistics for the North West

• 15 work related deaths (14)

• 9,432 injuries (9,401)

• 120,000 cases of work related ill health

Official HSE statistics for 2013/14 (latest published figures)

The reality…

Bosley Mill Major Incident

Occupational Health

Fatal accidents

• Driver crushed by own vehicleHaulage

• Vehicle overturnMOD exercise

• Healthcare incidentsSafety related matters (eg bedrails)

• Employee killed when work item fell overCrushed by precast concrete staircase

Fatal accidents (farms)

• Farmers fell through fragile roof (x2)Roof repair and maintenance work

• Farmers killed handling livestock (x3)Knocked over/trampled

• Farmer killed by falling barn door

• Farmer killed by ATVQuad bike overturned on sloping ground

Fatal accidents

• MoP killed by refuse collection vehicleReversing vehicle along country lane

• Employee killed by refuse collection vehicleReversing vehicle

• Employee killed during lifting operationLoad snagged during loading of flat bed lorry

Fatal accidents

• Lifting Operation – Fork Lift TruckPalletised load collapsed

• Employee killed by falling rampsLoading operation (low loader)

• Employee killed in autoclaveEntered an industrial pressure oven

3 Primary ‘Fatal’ Hazards

• Falling from a height

• Struck by vehicles

• Crushed by falling/moving objects

Prosecutions

> Circular sawAn Employee lost a finger on an unguarded circular saw- Guilty plea, fined £5k plus costs. (Provision & Use of Work Equipment Regs)

> Lifting operationLOLER. An employee was injured during a tandem lift using two FLTs. Guilty plea, fined £12k plus costs. (Lifting Operations & Lifting Equipment Regs)

> Vehicle movementsEmployee struck by LGV in depot yard. Guilty plea, fined £20k plus costs (Workplace Regs)

Prosecutions cont.

> Refuse collectionsFailure to assess rounds. Guilty plea, fined £120k plus costs. (HSWA, non causative of death)

> Industrial ovenOperator killed inside autoclave. Guilty plea, fined £150K plus costs. (HSWA)

> Lifting Operation

Overhead Travelling crane. Lifting

equipment struck workpiece which fell onto employees. Guilty plea, fined £16k plus costs. (LOLER)

Prosecutions cont.

> Fragile roof fallInadequate safety precautions.Guilty plea, suspended prison sentence, fined £200k plus costs. (Manslaughter & HSWA)

� Falling rampsEmployee struck by low loader ramp. Failure to conduct suitable risk assessment. Not guilty. (Management Regs, non causative of death)

Typically around a dozen cases ongoing at any one time at various

stages of the process.

Enforcement Notices

• Working at height unsafelyFragile roof work, maintenance egpatching & tiling

• Machinery guardingAccess to blades/tools/moving parts

• Defective EquipmentInoperative protection devices

• Risk of Electric ShockLive conductors, water ingress, dust/corrosive environment

Enforcement Notices

• Improvement Notices:

Statutory examinations

Risk assessment

COSHH (Control and/or assessment)

Management arrangements

Challenges faced by HSE

So what next?

• Effective modern regulator

• Growing commercial activities

• Investing in people and capability

• Operational effectiveness & efficiency

• Funding

Maintain focus on where the greatest risks exist and where we (and you) can have the greatest impact

What is HSE looking at in 2015/16?

• Investigations

Subject to selection criteria

• Inspections:

> Inspections following an investigation

> Priority Local Inspection

> Higher risk sectors and activities

> Single issue inspections

• Stakeholder work

What stakeholders will see…

• Fewer, but targeted inspections to those

areas where there is greatest risk

• Fewer proactive inspections in lower risk

areas who meet their obligations

• HSE working with local government and

partners

General Manufacturing etc

• Woodworking

• Meat/Poultry

• Bakeries

• Plastics

• Brickworks

• Potteries

• Ship/boat building

• Asbestos transfer

• LA waste collections

• Waste & Recycling

(general)

• Fairgrounds

• Migrant workers

• Radiography

• Quarries

• Agriculture

Construction

• CDM 2015

• Refurbishment

• Health

• Housebuilding

(smaller sites)

• Fragile roofwork

• Temp. Demountable

structures

• Asbestos removal

• Local initiatives

• Timber frames

• ‘Major’ Construction

Projects

• ‘Working Well

Together’

CDM: ‘broadly’ the same…

• Application to all projects

• Role of the Principal

Contractor

• Part 4 technical standards

for construction sites

• Schedule 2 – welfare

requirements

• Co-ordinators for H&S in

the pre- and construction

phases

Outline of main changes

• Simplified structure

• Client – greater responsibility

• Domestic client exemption – removed

• CDM co-ordinator role - removed

• Principal Designer role (PD) –introduced

• ‘Competence’ – removed in its current form

• Construction phase plan for all projects

• Threshold for appointments – more than 1 contractor

• Notification is a stand alone requirement – not trigger point for additional duties

Summary – CDM 2015

• Simplified Regulations

• Greater relevance to small projects

• Applies to all construction projects

• Strengthened client role

• Embedding the co-ordination function within the project team rather than within the role of an individual (CDMC)

• Removal of exemption for domestic clients

• Removal of explicit competence requirements

HSE’s approach on sites

• No change to HSE’s

approach to inspection,

investigation and enforcement

• Risk based, sensible and

proportionate

• Looking ‘beyond the site gate’

where failure to manage risk

• Construction phase plan

Fee for intervention (FFI)

• Introduced 2012

• Independent Review 2014

> acknowledges challenges

> proven effective in sharing the cost burden

> not a ‘cash cow’

> Review recommends:

Extending the scheme, create a ‘level playing field’

Threshold remains the sameContinues to be applied fairlyKeep Disputes process under reviewConsider re-drafting letters (improve clarity)

Source: Fee for Intervention (FFI) - The First Eighteen Month’s Experience, Report by the Independent FFI Review Panel