The HSE has published its strategy "The Health and Safety of Great Britain \\ Be Part of the Solution" last week (June 3rd 2009) hoping to reduce the number of related deaths and injuries in the workplace.
In 2007/08, provisional figures show that 229 workers were killed and 136,771 employees were seriously injured at their place of work. During the same time, approximately 2.1 million people were suffering from an illness thought to be caused by or made worse by their present or past work.
The HSE's strategy outlines these 10 goals:
1.To investigate work-related accidents and ill health and take enforcement action to prevent harm and secure justice when appropriate.
2.To encourage strong leadership in championing the importance of, and common-sense approach to, health and safety in the workplace.
3.To motivate focus on the core aims of health and safety, to help risk makers and managers distinguish between real health and safety issues and trivial or ill-informed criticism.
4.To encourage an increase in competence, which will enable greater ownership and profiling of risk, thereby promoting sensible and proportionate risk management.
5.To reinforce the promotion of worker involvement and consultation in health and safety matters throughout unionised and non-unionised workplaces of all sizes.
6.To specifically target key health issues and to identify and work with those bodies best placed to bring about a reduction in the incidence rate and number of cases of work-related ill health.
7.To set priorities and, within those priorities, to identify which activities, their length and scale, deliver a significant reduction in the rate and number of deaths and accidents.
8.To adapt and customise approaches to help the increasing numbers of SMEs in different sectors comply with their health and safety obligations.
9.To reduce the likelihood of low frequency, high impact catastrophic incidents while ensuring that Great Britain maintains its capabilities in those industries strategically important to the country's economy and social infrastructure.
10.To take account of wider issues that impact on health and safety as part of the continuing drive to improve Great Britain's health and safety performance.
Download a PDF copy of the strategy here.
In 2007/08, provisional figures show that 229 workers were killed and 136,771 employees were seriously injured at their place of work. During the same time, approximately 2.1 million people were suffering from an illness thought to be caused by or made worse by their present or past work.
The HSE's strategy outlines these 10 goals:
1.To investigate work-related accidents and ill health and take enforcement action to prevent harm and secure justice when appropriate.
2.To encourage strong leadership in championing the importance of, and common-sense approach to, health and safety in the workplace.
3.To motivate focus on the core aims of health and safety, to help risk makers and managers distinguish between real health and safety issues and trivial or ill-informed criticism.
4.To encourage an increase in competence, which will enable greater ownership and profiling of risk, thereby promoting sensible and proportionate risk management.
5.To reinforce the promotion of worker involvement and consultation in health and safety matters throughout unionised and non-unionised workplaces of all sizes.
6.To specifically target key health issues and to identify and work with those bodies best placed to bring about a reduction in the incidence rate and number of cases of work-related ill health.
7.To set priorities and, within those priorities, to identify which activities, their length and scale, deliver a significant reduction in the rate and number of deaths and accidents.
8.To adapt and customise approaches to help the increasing numbers of SMEs in different sectors comply with their health and safety obligations.
9.To reduce the likelihood of low frequency, high impact catastrophic incidents while ensuring that Great Britain maintains its capabilities in those industries strategically important to the country's economy and social infrastructure.
10.To take account of wider issues that impact on health and safety as part of the continuing drive to improve Great Britain's health and safety performance.
Download a PDF copy of the strategy here.
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