Health and Safety Executive Health and Safety Executive 1. Leadership & Worker Involvement on the Olympic Park 2. Do Your Bit Campaign - early findings.

Health and Safety Executive

Health and Safety Executive

1. Leadership & Worker Involvement on the

Olympic Park

2. Do Your Bit Campaign - early findings

Rob Vondy and Susan Robinson

Workforce and Leadership Policy Team

(Source: IES surveys)

Worker Involvement on the Olympic Park

Study aims

• To understand approaches to leadership and worker involvement on the Park, and the impact of these on attitudes and behaviours associated with positive health and safety practices and performance

• Transferability of lessons learnt

ODA HS & E Leadership Model

Summary of key findings

• Vision - A strong commitment to health, safety and well-being incorporating a clear statement of expectations and standards as a key priority

• Action - Vision was translated into action through creating an array of levers to engage Tier 1 and Tier 2 contractors

• Engaging the supply chain – work with and through contractors to develop a collaborative approach across the site

• Monitoring – performance against both the vision and standards

• Structure –involved all layers – HS&E Leadership Board, SHELT, Project Leadership Teams - embedded throughout the management chain

Summary of key findings

• Communication – structure was supported by effective and innovative communications at all levels

• Learning – learning was embedded into the culture through ensuring that it was encouraged and sustained – focus on safety controls and hazard awareness

• Employee engagement – focus on employee wellbeing, health care, reward and recognition, encouragement of near miss reporting and a culture of openness and “fair blame”

Worker Involvement

Key components

Comprehensive H&S inductions

Mandatory Daily Activity Briefings (DABs)

Safety Stand-downs - “Take time for safety”

Visibility and accessibility to Leadership

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Involvement of Management and Supervisors

Tool box talks

Verbal and written communications

Worker Involvement

Key components

Climate Survey for feedback and action

Personalized posters

Good safety practice recognised – breakfast

vouchers, branded badges, fleeces and H&S awards

“You said, we did” boards

Encouragement of open feedback and challenge

Behavioural safety initiatives

Worker survey

• 45 per cent of site operatives report making a suggestion on how to improve health and safety

• 31 per cent of site operatives say they have reported a near miss

• 83 per cent of site operatives report feeling comfortable raising health and safety issues

• 89 per cent of workers on the Park who reported a near miss were satisfied with how it was dealt with

• Contractors' report taking learning from the Park to their own organisations

 Based on an IES survey of 518 workers (of which 336 were site operatives) across three

canteens on the Park.

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Accident Frequency Rate (AFR) October 2005 – January 2012 (AFR 0.16, 1 yr 0.15)

Safety outcomes for the Olympic Park

• By June 2011 the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA)

recorded around 62 million man hours worked, with an

accident frequency rate (AFR) of 0.17 (calculated per

100,000 hours worked)

• No accident-related fatalities

• In addition, 22 periods of one million man hours have

been worked without a RIDDOR-reportable injury

accident

The ODA Business Case

Business case rationale

• Productivity – workers healthy, happy and here

• Recruitment and retention

• Reputational risk

• Prevention rather than litigation

• Off-site time loss kept to a minimum

Transferability

• Unique? (kudos, one site, resources)

• Enablers – processes not always complex or costly

• Barriers – costs, cultures, reporting

• Principles transferable eg dialogue, learning from incidents, creating clarity, engaging contractors

• Dependent on size, complexity, resolve, unity of purpose and commitment from the top and throughout the management structure

Learning Legacy

• Independent evaluations

• Case Studies

• Tools and Products

www.london2012.com/learninglegacy 14

HSE Strategy

HSE strategic goal

Involving the workforce

“ To reinforce the promotion of worker involvement and consultation in health and safety matters throughout unionised and non-unionised workplaces of all sizes”.

Worker Involvement

• HSE is committed to promoting the importance and benefit of worker involvement and consultation

• This commitment is reflected in our approach to delivery of Worker Involvement Training Programmes and our inspection and enforcement activity

• The development of a new Inspectors Topic Pack in consultation with the TUC

Evaluation of the Worker Involvement Training Programmes – pilot study

Early findings are positive:

• Both new reps and joint training courses fulfilled the aims they set out to achieve

• 94% of respondents from the new reps course agreeing with the perceived benefits of the course, including better understanding, influencing and communication skills

• Delegates on the joint line manager and rep training reported increasing confidence to tackle issues, greater cooperation and an increased awareness of H&S issues

(A longitudinal evaluation of the training, by IES, is due to report in the

Autumn of 2012)

Evaluation of the Worker Involvement Training Programmes – pilot study

Joint training delegates either strongly agree or agree that

the interventions have:

• Helped to identify or implement health and safety improvements

• Established a more collaborative and constructive approach

• Led to the development of a realistic plan of action to help maintain momentum and sustain improvements agreed

(A longitudinal evaluation of the training, by IES, is due to report in the

Autumn of 2012)

Worker Involvement

“It’s all about having conversations with those

closest to the job to help you manage health and

safety in a practical way”

This helps to:

• spot workplace risks

• make sure health and safety controls are practical

• increase the level of commitment to working in a safe and healthy way

Worker Involvement

Thank you.

Any questions…………?