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Health and Safety Executive

Health and Safety Executive

HSE update

Andrew Kingscott

HM Principal Inspector Bristol

• H&S Overview / context

• Focus of HSE field force

(local/national)

• Construction round up

• All Industry round up

• FFI – reflections

• Sentencing guidelines – emerging

implications

Overview

• Improving picture – numbers wise.

Headline figures – fatal accidents

• Provisional figure workers fatally injured

in 2015/16 is 144 = 0.46 deaths / 100,000

• 144 worker deaths (2015/16) - 7% lower

than 5 yr average

• 20-year downward trend - leveling off

• 67 members of the public fatally injured in

accidents connected to work in 2015/16

(excluding incidents relating to railways,

and those enforced by the Care Quality

Commission).

Headlines - fatalities

• Construction - 43 (compared to 35 in 2014/15)

1.94 per 100,000 workers – up on last year but

below the 5 yr average

• Agriculture – 27 (five-year average 32);

• Manufacturing –27 (five-year average 22),

figure includes three incidents that resulted in a

total of eight deaths;”

• Waste and Recycling – 6 (five-year average of

seven, - subject to considerable yearly

fluctuation;

• Mesothelioma – 2515 (2% reduction)

Headlines – injury and ill health

• Work-related illness – 1.3 million working

people suffering from a work-related illness;

• Riddor Injuries – 72,702 other injuries to

employees reported under RIDDOR.

• All Injuries – 621,000 injuries occurred at work

according to the Labour Force Survey.

• Working Days Lost -30.4 million working days

lost due to work-related illness and workplace

injury.

• Cost – £14.1 billion estimated cost of injuries

and ill-health from current working conditions

(2014/15).

HSE - Enforcement

Workwell - HSE’s Health and Work

strategy

• High level - Health challenges

• Draft strategy

• Musculoskeletal disorders

• Occupational lung disease

• Occupational stress and related mental

health issues

• Strategic approach - themes

Workwell - Sector plans

• 19 sectors, based on industry type and

risk profile

• Again high level proposals for HSE to:

• lead and engage with others to improve

workplace health and safety

• provide an effective regulatory framework

• secure effective management and control

of risk

• reduce the likelihood of low-frequency,

high-impact catastrophic incidents

Manufacturing - example

• Controlling exposures to substances

causing occupational lung disease

• Reducing the incidence of common

work related ill-health conditions, such

as MSDs and work-related stress

• Preventing serious incidents involving

heavy loads, during maintenance

activities and catastrophic events

• (Tool kit for MSDs) – MAC

VMAC – ART - RAPP

Risk assessment

Work Plan 2017 - 18

• 20 000 proactive interventions (50%

Construction)

• focusing our inspection and enforcement

activity where it can have the most effect.

• Woodworking / Food / Engineering (metal

fabrication) / Waste & Recycling

• Agriculture / Rubber / Legionella /

Foundries / Concrete / Radiation /Prisons

/ Fairgrounds

Construction – big issues

• Didcott

• Hinkley Point C

• A 303 Tunnel

Construction

Construction

Site observations

Non Construction – machinery

Guarding - SSOW

• Machinery Guarding

Non Construction – machinery

Guarding

Non Construction – struck by

vehicle

Non Construction – public

safeguarding

• Custodial sentence for Wiltshire farmer

Non Construction – sort of

Cost recovery - reflections

• Headline: HSE refurbishment ‘blitzes’

raises over £1m.

Cost recovery – dutyholder

survey - (what and why)

Statement

Response

Strongly

Agree Agree

Neither agree

nor disagree Disagree

Strongly

Disagree

1. The activities inspected were

appropriate to the risks present

in my workplace. 61% 23% 7% 3% 6%

2. The outcome of the visit was

proportionate to the risks that

were identified. 58% 26% 7% 3% 7%

3. The inspector provided

practical advice which will help

improve health and safety at

my workplace. 62% 23% 5% 2% 8%

4. The inspection was

conducted in an efficient and

effective manner and the

amount of time taken was

appropriate. 71% 15% 4% 2% 8%

Cost recovery – judicial review

Revised sentencing guidelines

• Headline grabbing sentences

Revised sentencing guidelines

• Culpability

• Harm

• Likelihood

• Other adjustments

Sentencing guidelines

• Director and individual accountability

Sentencing guidelines

Sentencing guidelines -

culpability

• Very High - Deliberate breach of or

flagrant disregard for the law

• High - fell far short of the appropriate

standard

• Medium - Systems were in place but

these were not sufficiently adhered to or

implemented

• Low - Offender did not fall far short of the

appropriate standard

Sentencing guidelines – harm &

likelihood

Sentencing guidelines – other

factors

• Aggravating - Previous convictions /

Cost-cutting / deliberate concealment /

oobstruction / poor health and safety

record / falsification of documentation or

licences

• Mitigating - No previous convictions /

voluntary remediation / co- operation /

good H&S record / effective procedures in

place

Questions?