Transcript ELIZABETH LUMSDEN HOME SAFETY LIAISON OFFICER

Scottish Higher Performers
Forum
‘Influencing health and safety
within Scotland’
1st May 2007
Agenda
Introduction
Apologies
SHPF Update
POOSH Scotland
PHASS Update
SCHWL Progress
Scottish Executive ‘Environment and Health’
Strategic Framework discussion paper
Meeting the SHPF Challenge
AoCB
Scottish Higher Performer’s Forum
Central proposition
Companies which seek to achieve excellence
in health and safety performance represent a
considerable reservoir of commitment and
expertise which should be channelled to help
raise awareness and standards in workplaces
throughout Scotland.
SHPF Update
Web based
98 organisations engaged in communication
8 committed formally to the challenge
Including 24 organisations linked to;
Large Organisation’s Partnership project
Performance Reporting Research
Business Benefits Case Studies
Leadership Case Studies
SHPF Update
From:
SHPF Community.
With:
SHPF Community
POOSH Scotland
PHASS
SELECT
Scotch Whisky Association
Through:
RoSPA Journals; Web pages
Safety Groups UK
POOSH Scotland
Exists to promote the continuous
improvement of the practice of occupational
safety and health through education,
communication and the encouragement of
cooperation between all persons and agencies
in the provision of a healthy and safe working
environment.
Membership
Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in
Occupational Health and Ergonomics
British Occupational Hygiene Society
Division of Occupational Psychology Scotland
Ergonomics Society
Faculty of Occupational Medicine
IOSH
Occupational Health Nurses Forum Scotland
Partnership on Health and Safety in Scotland
Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland
Scottish Centre for Healthy Working Lives
Scottish Chamber of Safety
Society of Occupational Medicine
Aims & Objectives
Exchange views knowledge and information
Offer comments on CD’s and national
strategies for health and safety
Discuss and develop common initiatives and
policies for consideration by PHASS
To promote professional standards and
competence among practitioners, including
appropriate qualifications and CPD Schemes
Mapping OSH Professional Body
Activities in Scotland
Guidance , sources of competent advice and
how to select
Reference for regulators, service providers
and professionals
Encourage and support professionals from
related disciplines to broaden range of skills
and qualifications
Provoke and generate debate
IOSH ‘Think about health and safety’
Supporting MSP’s in their constituencies
Raise profile of health and safety professionals
Practical guidance aimed at protecting people
Office related health and safety
Personal Safety
‘Basics in practice’ case studies
IOSH with co-operation and assistance of Scottish
Parliament and Healthy Working Lives
Partnership on Health and Safety
in Scotland
Aim: to help implement HSC strategy within
the context of Scotland’s economy, its
industrial makeup and culture.
Action orientated
Clear focus on health and safety
Co-ordinate action between partner
organisations
Scottish Executive: Scottish Action Plan on
Health & Safety
Promotion of good health and safety practice
in Scotland.
Benefits of good health and safety
management to Scottish businesses and
Scotland’s economy.
Set an example encouraging high standards
across public sector
Reduction of burden on health services
Scottish Executive: Scottish Action Plan on
Health & Safety
Identifies future collaborative actions in pursuit of
common goal
To help reduce preventable fatalities, injuries and
work-related ill health to employees and to members
of the public arising from work activity
PHASS to provide ongoing oversight and guidance on
implementation
Priority Action Areas
Improved information advice and training to
workers and businesses, greater engagement
by a range of public, private and voluntary
sector bodies.
Improved regulation, investigation,
prosecution and sanctioning
Of particular interest
5.7 Publicising Scotland’s professional OHS resources
and building new capacity
7.1 Promotion of Worker Involvement
7.4 For business by business support
CBI/FSB/SHPF/HWL Award winners to develop a
model and programme for business-to-business
mentoring
10. Occupational Road Risk
Of particular interest
13 Investigation and Prosecution
Training conference on the work-related
deaths protocol by October 2007
14 Sentencing
Research commissioned into possible
sentencing anomalies in relation to H&S
offences
SCHWL Progress
Launch of Healthy Working Lives Awards
Driving forward Occupational Health, Safety
and Well-being
Environment and Health in Scotland
A new approach
Scottish Executive inviting feedback from
Key Stakeholders
Links to SHPF Challenge
Opportunity to influence
Environment and Health in Scotland
A new approach
Are the health priorities correct?
Do you consider that unintentional injuries
should be included in the first wave of
priorities?
Environment and Health in Scotland
A new approach
Food for thought
Unintentional injury is one of the main causes of
death and is the most common cause of
emergency hospital admissions in children aged
under 15 in Scotland…. Unintentional injuries
are second only to cancers as a cause of death
for children aged between 1 and 14 years
Meeting the Challenge
Alan Walkinshaw, OKI
David Hall, Scottish Water Solutions
RoSPA Key Issues Update
Roger Bibbings
Occupational Safety Adviser
Thoughts?
AoCB