Making Health and Safety Easy Royal Agricultural Society Health and - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Making Health and Safety Easy Royal Agricultural Society Health and Safety doesnt have to Complicate everything Scare the pants off you Create extra/hard work Be completely irrelevant to what you do Annoy Confuse
Complicate everything Scare the pants off you Create extra/hard work Be completely irrelevant to what you do Annoy Confuse people Be over the top Result in unintended consequences Etc, etc, etc ………
Injuries as well as fatalities can destroy lives and
families – fatalities alone are not a good measure of impact
Injuries prevent people living the lives they
choose – they can prevent people from being able to work and support their family; playing sport or being able to enjoy their families
Human beings are programmed to
No risk no gain The reason for unsafe actions is that
Recognition for getting the job done
Taking risks is socially acceptable Respect for just getting on with it It is easier and faster
Don’t panic Mr Mannering The standard you walk by is the
Have a look yourself What would you want someone
Hazard
A source or event, which has the potential to cause harm, injury,
death, loss or damage to people, property/plant/equipment or the environment.
A threat
Risk
Potential impact of an event, a combination of likelihood and
consequences
How the person interacts with a threat
Check the physical environment (up,
Ask yourself “what are the potential
Think about how weather, people,
Think through the whole day and
Fixed site vs introduced hazards Other uses of your grounds
Who’s on your site? What are they doing? When are they doing it? How do they impact each other? What skills do they have? What animals and equipment are
Instructions on second page – tell you what to change depending on your circumstances
Gives you the basic requirements
people are the solution, not the problem safety is about positives, not about the absence of negatives safety should be an ethical responsibility, not a bureaucratic activity
Someone needs to set expectations and an
example – the leaders in the group – YOU!!!!
Often leaders like the idea of things being different
but when faced with having to do things differently themselves, lack the passion to role model
We all have habits and routines, they come from
repetition – we need to unlearn them
The human condition is to expend less energy Allow people the dignity to change their stance