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Strategies, plans and priorities

Paul Billinger EPD Manufacturing Sector

Cover

• Health and Work Strategy
• Sector Plans
• Operational priorities

Who I am, what I do

Lead for manufacturing sector:

• stakeholder engagement
• operational priorities and planning
• policy and national strategies
• determining standards and benchmarks
• advice and guidance
• research

Why health and safety? What is the point of health and safety?

Saving lives Saving lives Preventing suffering Preventing suffering

Helping Great Britain Work Well

HSE Health and Work Strategy

HSE Health and Work Strategy

Published December 2016 Priority areas:

• occupational lung disease
• musculoskeletal disorders
• occupational stress and mental health

Does not mean that other issues will be ignored

Our aim

To work in partnership with employers, employees and the wider health and safety community to reduce the incidence rate and number of new cases for these priority areas.

Priority areas

Occupational lung disease

• continues to lead to an estimated 12 000 deaths

each year. Musculoskeletal disorders

• most common reported cause of occupational ill

health in GB, accounting for 41% of all work-related ill-health cases and 34% of all working days lost due to ill health.

Priority areas

Work-related stress

• second most commonly reported cause of
• ccupational ill health in GB, accounting for 37% of all

work-related ill-health cases, and 45% of all working days lost due to ill health.

Our approach:

• working with others, using our expertise for the

wider good of workers, businesses (especially SMEs) and government;

• championing the need for prevention;
• focusing our inspection and enforcement activity

where it can have the most effect.

What HSE will do:

• actively contributing, where competent, to cross-

government initiatives;

• engage and support the wider community;
• use evidence-based and innovative approaches to

drive behavioral change;

• maintaining and enhancing the enforcement profile

and to hold those responsible to account ;

• review health research programme;
• demonstrate business costs of not tackling health

issues

Lung disease: how bad is it?

“The legacy of historic exposures can often mask the need for action today. Can we be truly confident that our current approach isn’t leading another generation to early death, suffering and harm?”

Professor David Fishwick Chief Medical Adviser to HSE

Lung disease: controlling exposure

Recognise that deaths now are likely due to past exposures

• can’t change the past but can ensure that current

risks are controlled

• don’t want our new inspectors in 20 years

standing up and saying the same things that I am today

Lung disease: why act?

Terry the stone mason Phil the welder silicosis after exposure to silica dust asthma after exposure to welding fume

Sector Plans

Draft Sector Plans for:

Agriculture Manufacturing Bioeconomy Mines Chemicals Offshore energy Commercial consumer services Onshore oil and gas Construction Public services Explosives Quarries Fairgrounds and theme parks Sports and leisure Film broadcasting, theatre and events Utilities Gas and pipelines Waste and recycling Logistics and transport

Sector Plans: cover

For each sector we have:

• a draft plan covering its health and safety

performance

• identified the top three strategic priorities for the

next three to five years

• actions we propose to take

Sector Plans: approach

For each sector we propose 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

Sector Plans: manufacturing

Priorities: manufacturing

• controlling exposures to substances causing
• ccupational 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

Priorities: public services

• reducing the high levels of ill health from work-

related stress and MSDs

• tackling specific safety issues in high-hazard

activities, such as realistic training in the military

• maintaining established standards as service

provision becomes fragmented and new forms of delivery emerge

Priorities: logistics and transport

• reducing the impact of poorly controlled loads
• reducing the rate of ill health caused by

musculoskeletal disorders

• increasing engagement with work-related road

risk

What next?

To help make further improvements, we will be starting a discussion early in the New Year with the wider health and safety community before publishing later in 2017

• please visit the website
• send us any comments.

FOD operational priorities

FOD inspections targeting:

• manufacturing (specific parts)
• fresh produce
• agriculture (specific areas)
• end of life vehicle sites
• small scale construction
• waste and recycling at LAs
• fairgrounds
• Legionella

Inspection in manufacturing

• target sectors with known health problems
• proactive inspections must cover:

– occupational health topic – other matters of evident concern

• specific guidance to inspectors about what and

how to cover the topic – includes initial enforcement expectations for a number of scenarios

Manufacturing priorities (2015-18)

• respirable crystalline silica

– stone working, brick, ceramics/potteries, concrete products, foundries

• foundry fume and other substances
• wood dust
• flour dust and other organic dusts

– food, grain milling

• welding fume

– fabricated metals – ship and boat building

…Priorities (2015-18)

• metalworking fluids

– fabricated metals

• plastic fume
• rubber fume
• various substances

– surface engineering

• MSD in food

…some safety issues

• heavy loads
• fire and explosion: solvents and dusts
• developing technologies:

– additive manufacture (3D printing) – collaborative robots (cobots)

• influencing supply chain (acting responsibly)

Next workyear (provisional)

Build on current initiatives:

• manufacturing: health & catastrophic events
• fairgrounds
• agriculture
• Legionella
• radiation
• construction

(plus some other specific initiatives under consideration)

Reminder

Saving lives Saving lives Preventing suffering Preventing suffering

Questions?