Transcript Healthy Working Lives - HSE: Information about health and

Brian Cherrie
Healthy Working Lives
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 An aging workforce, fewer skilled staff available
 Average working days lost 9 per employee
(decreasing)
 Long-term sickness absence,> 20 days (increasing!)
 Cost of sickness absence - £11bn to business
 Loss of productivity and competitiveness in a full
employment economy
 Adverse effect of workloads on the health of
people still at work
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Workplace
Early Years
Community
2003 - Improving
Health in
Scotland:
The Challenge
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Teenage
Transition
March 2003 – Improving Health
in Scotland: The Challenge
August 2004 - Healthy Working
Lives a plan for action
Workplace
December 2005 - Healthy
Working Lives Business Plan
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NHS
Local
Authorities
Safe and
Healthy Working
SaHW
SHAW
SBC
Voluntary
Sector
Unions
SE
funded
DWP
NHS
Health
Scotland
HSE
OHS
Providers
More than the Sum of the Parts
The HWL programme
A framework for staff and business development - The business case
• Enhanced reputation as good employer
• Raised profile among clients and stakeholders
• A healthier and more motivated workforce
• Improved productivity
• Control insurance costs
• Avoid health and safety pitfalls
• Contribute to the health of the wider community
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Scottish Centre for
Healthy Working Lives
Website
Advice line
Workplace
Advisers
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Award
Partners
Faculty of
Occupational
Medicine
REHIS
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Partnership Working to Date
Farmsafe
A pilot project funded by the Scottish Executive involving:
Health and Safety Executive, Scottish Food Quality Certification Ltd and
Healthy Working Lives to address 6 priority topics on farms:
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Falls from height
Workplace transport
Musculoskeletal disorders
Child safety
Chemical/pesticide exposure
Occupational asthma
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Partnership Working to Date
Safety and Health Awareness Days (SHADs)
Most of the HWL OH&S advisers have participated in the HSE SHADs
around the country.
Again similar topics are covered – but with some good hands-on
demonstrations
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Falls from height – safe ladder demos, working on fragile roofs
Workplace transport – Quad bike and tractor driving
Musculoskeletal disorders – demo of lifting aids, lifting techniques
Child safety – awareness sessions – a delicate topic
Chemical/pesticide exposure – info about regulations and case studies
Occupational asthma - causes and intervention – occupational health
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Partnership Working
Where do we go from here?
Pilots in aquaculture, arboriculture?
More SHADs?
We are here, our services are free and we see
partnership working as one of the ways forward to
improve both health and safety in the workplace
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Getting in Touch …
Services and advice
Local Healthy Working Lives advisers
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