HSE - Construction BHSEA update October 2018 Tony Mitchell - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Health and Safety Executive Health and Safety Executive

HSE - Construction BHSEA update October 2018

Tony Mitchell Principal Inspector – Construction Division

Construction Division Planning

UK Construction Strategy

UK Construction Sector Deal

The challenges

Mark Farmer said: “If you buy a new car, you expect it to have been built in a factory to exacting standards, to be delivered on time, to an agreed price and to a predetermined quality. “This needs to happen more in construction, so that the investors, developers

• r building owners hiring construction firms increasingly dictate the use of

modern methods of delivery and invest appropriately in the skills agenda to grow this part

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the industry. There are more similarities between manufacturing and construction than many people are led to believe and this perception needs to change, starting in the housing market.”

Meeting the objectives and challenges

Effective risk management is fundamental to improving;

Productivity, Efficiency, Skills Growth, Sustainability and Economic viability

HGBWW provides the vehicle through which we can support wider construction objectives

Helping GB work well

Acting together Managing risk well Supporting small employers Tackling ill-health Keeping pace with change Sharing our success

Fatal injuries to workers

Why Health?

• Deaths – for every worker killed on site, approximately

100 die from ill health due to past exposures – particularly asbestos (2,500 deaths) and silica (600 deaths)

Why Health?

• Ill health – working days lost (1.9 million) is nearly 3

X that of safety (0.4 million)

• MSD – is the biggest cause (65%) of self-reported

illness in the industry

CD Annual Plan - principles

• Range of interventions from inspection to

broader engagement

• Greater use of inspection campaigns with

increased impact using communications

• Maintain balance of proactive - reactive

effort to target risk

• Maintain rigour of asbestos licensing

regime

• Disciplined, planned delivery of around

9,000 inspections

• Engagement and development

Priorities in the Sector Plan

• Reducing incidents of ill

health, with a particular focus on occupational lung disease and musculoskeletal disorders

• Supporting small

businesses to achieve improved risk management and control

• Embedding the principles
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CD Plan of Work - highlights

• MSD - Materials Handling
• Inspection

– National refurbishment initiative – London Initiative – Health Initiative

• Targeted inspections of tower

block cladding removal and replacement works

Construction Industry Advisory Committee (CONIAC)

• CONIAC Joint HSE,

Industry and Union industrial advisory committee

• Reconstituted inline with

HGBWW themes into working groups overseen by a steering group

• Delivers a Workplan which

contributes to the HGBWW strategy and objectives

Leading and engaging

• HCLG – case studies
• Plasterboard supply –

reducing handling risks

• Construction stress

management standards

• SME insight research
• WWT campaign
• Improving teaching of design

risk management

• New technologies – BIM and

Build Offsite

Sustaining regulatory excellence

• Technical training

programme

• Project specific training –

high hazard demolition, material handling, architects, TDS

• Industry placements
• Unit peer reviews and other

assurance

• Sector advice and support

Securing effective control of risk

• Four campaigns

– London refurbishment – Health campaign – Two others targeted at risk

• Other interventions, eg:

– Clients and designers – CHeRT – delivered by VOs

• Red concern inspections

Sharing our success

Thorny issues!