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?