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INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RISK AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT

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A speaker at the recent in Middleton to be contacted by radio DJs in a persists simply because we don’t have the Construction Leadership Group Forum prank call. The pressure fell on one individual, words to express our feelings about it. There’s stood on and said: “I unclipped and her death should have been predictable. a degree of pressure to ‘be seen to be coping’ my harness and walked to the edge Recent research by Oxford and Stockholm and not showing personal emotions, and if and thought the world would be better universities found people who know a work we do see the signs among colleagues we without me”. The room fell silent. Leaders colleague who died by suicide are three don’t know how to respond. were uncomfortable. Questions followed: times more likely to follow suit. It’s evidence Through training and authentic caring the what could the employer have done? that suicide is now a workplace risk. But how evidence suggests people can be helped. The Some of us may have been involved in can you manage when you don’t speaker who contemplated taking his life by cases where no one can explain the actions know colleagues are suffering? Even if we jumping from height underwent cognitive of the trained and experienced worker carry out pre- questionnaires behavioural therapy, which has saved his life. who died. The employer knows of the or health surveillance, staff don’t admit to As well as the moral duty, there is a requirement to ensure health and safety, but mental illness through fear of stigma, business case for taking the time to care: often the investigation begins with , security or because they cannot diagnose mental illness is responsible for 91 million remorse and the assumption the employer their own . working days lost and costs £30 billion each must have caused the death. However, doing nothing is not the answer. year. Remember: if one person talks, the There is rarely evidence of suicide – with Suicide is the most common cause of death other needs to listen. the exception of Telecom France, when 24 for men aged between 20–49 in England and employees took their lives over seven years. Wales, according to 2015 figures from the For practical ways employers can help The majority left letters blaming pressure Office of National Statistics. Three quarters to prevent occupational burnout, turn to from management. of the population with a diagnosable mental page 12. For information on supporting Many of us will also remember the illness receive no treatment. suicidal employees, see President Siobhan story of Jacintha Saldanha, the nurse who Tonja Schmidt, Head of Development and Donnelly’s column in this month’s issue of committed suicide after she allowed Kate at the Samaritans, says that stigma Health and Safety at Work.

INSIDE THIS ISSUE In court: Wilko, KFC, How safe is your Record numbers How to become an 02 Warburtons and 06 supply chain? 09 attend Branch 16 Ambassador for IIRSM Jaguar Land Rover meeting in Dubai News Prosecutions News Prosecutions

RISK ASSESSMENT SENTENCING TRANSPORT

Left: Image from the train immediately before the Safety fines Rail worker hit accident, showing Allen Evans walking along the Retailer fined £2.2m after track. Below: ground profile of accident location treble in 12 by 90mph train worker was crushed by months 35-stone cage The owner of the UK’s railway network ●● First year of revised guideline resulted in has been fined £800,000 after a 19 fines of £1 million or more maintenance worker was struck by a train travelling at up to 90mph. ● ● Store failed to tailor generic, national risk The first year of operation of the Network Rail was charged with two assessments to local requirements new sentencing guideline, which counts under the Health and Safety at took effect on 1 February 2016, has Work Act for failing to ensure the health, National chain Wilko has been ordered seen penalties for health and safety safety and welfare at work of employees to pay £2.2 million for safety breaches offences treble. and non-employees. is possible his right arm will have to be The company pleaded guilty to the after a student working part-time at The largest fine in 2016 was On 22 June 2014, an inspection amputated in the future. two charges and “in no way held Evans one its stores was left paralysed when a £5 million, handed to Merlin revealed tracks needed urgent work done Workers said they felt uncomfortable responsible”, the court heard. metal cage full of paint tins fell on top Entertainments after five people were due to “metal fatigue”, which is known to being so close to the trains and had to sit “It has been accepted that the of her. seriously hurt in a rollercoaster crash cause train derailment. or squat on the side of the embankment, company’s plan and decision to do this The retail giant was prosecuted by at its Alton Towers theme park. This Two days later, Rail Manager Allen Evans Guildford Crown Court heard. work in a Red Zone was an error – but for Leicester City Council after the heavily was two and a half times the size of the was carrying out the repairs to the track “This was a serious risk, considering the right reasons,” said Oliver Campbell laden metal cage, used to move stock largest fine in 2015 and almost ten times near Redhill in Surrey. At the side of the the speed and frequency of the trains,” for the defence. around the store, toppled over a ledge larger than the biggest fine in 2014. track where Evans was walking was a steep said Graham Watson for the prosecution. ORR Principal Inspector Tom Wake that was created when the lift stopped at Thirty-four of the 46 people embankment where the ability to retreat The court was told that the works said: “In 2014, Network Rail’s planning of a slightly lower level than the floor. prosecuted for health and safety to safety when a train approached was could have been carried out at night, track maintenance work near Redhill fell The cage fell over as Corisande Collins breaches were found guilty and this “materially compromised”, the court heard. coinciding with other scheduled works below legal standards, placing workers (right) manoeuvred it out of the doors, resulted in 12 prison sentences – the An eye witness heard a “bang” and saw that would have ensured that no trains in unnecessary danger and causing an crushing her beneath hundreds of litres longest of which was two years. Evans fall down the embankment holding were running. employee to suffer life changing injuries. of paint tins. She sustained severe spinal The largest 20 fines imposed for his arm. He was taken to St George’s Watson added: “In substance, there “After the incident, Network Rail injuries in the 2013 incident and now has health and safety offences last year Hospital in Tooting by air ambulance. His was a culture in Network Rail in relation undertook a review of worker safety on © SWNS.com to use a wheelchair. Corisande Collins will spend the rest of her life in a cost the businesses involved a total injuries were described as life-changing. to poor planning in this area, which gave the London to Brighton line, reducing “The practical realities were essentially wheelchair of £38.6 million, and not every case Evans, who had worked for the rail rise to serious risks, which eventuated in track maintenance with trains running, that heavily and unevenly laden cages involved a fatality. In comparison, giant for more than 30 years, has limited very significant and life-changing injuries introducing better warning systems and were being manoeuvred around, As well as the multi-million pound the largest 20 fines in 2015 and 2014, mobility and needed psychiatric help. It to Evans.” providing additional training for staff. sometimes unnecessarily, with items not fine, the firm was ordered to pay an cost £13.5 million and £4.3 million even required on the shop floor,” said additional £70,835 in legal costs. The respectively. Judge Ebraham Mooncey at Leicester retailer, which is based in Worksop, “The increase in fines being issued HUMAN TRAFFICKING Crown Court. “The risks were clear.” Nottinghamshire, has nearly 400 stores by the courts demonstrates a desire InBrief He highlighted nine failings of Wilko, across the UK and a turnover of £1.4 to drive the message home the adding that the cage in this incident was billion. ensuring health and safety within a Sports Direct modern brothers jailed White paper sets out Brexit plans top-heavy, with 87.5 litres of paint stored In a statement, Collins, who is now working environment is fundamental,” The government’s long-awaited on the top level, 87 litres on the middle 23, said: “I never imagined something like commented Mary Lawrence, Partner ●● Erwin and Krystian Markowski were each They were given a two-and-a-half year white paper outlining its Brexit level and 55 litres on the lower level, this happening to me. Wilko is taking full at law firm Osborne Clarke. “So while sentenced to 8.5 years in prison concurrent sentence for fraud. plans highlights 12 areas which the making it more likely to topple over. responsibility for what happened, but this fines regularly exceeded the £1 million The Markowskis paid for the Polish men government is prioritising, including Wilko pleaded guilty to breaching will never make up for the fact I have lost mark last year, we can expect to see Two brothers who trafficked 18 people to travel to the UK, but when they arrived protecting workers’ rights, ensuring Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at the use of my legs and will spend the rest even larger fines going forward.” from Poland to the UK and conned and their passports were taken and they were free trade with European markets and Work Act; Section 2(2) of the Health and of my life in a wheelchair.” threatened them have been jailed. “totally isolated”. securing new trade agreements with Safety at Work Act; Regulation 4(1) of the “We are pleased with the prosecution Erwin and Krystian Markowski, The case came to light when one of other countries. Manual Handling Operations Regulations; brought by Leicester City Council – it The largest 20 health and £38m both from Nottingham, recruited the the victims reported his ordeal to police in It also mentions leaving the EU’s and Regulation 3(1) of the Management of is now up to employers to learn the safety fines in 2016 cost firms vulnerable men to work at the Sports January 2016. safety-related agencies, an issue that Health and Safety at Work Regulations. lessons.” Direct warehouse in Shirebrook, During sentencing, Judge Stephen has been raising questions in the Derbyshire. Coupland said it was a “planned sector. The pair controlled their victims’ bank and systematic” scheme of “human It says: “As part of exit negotiations EDITOR Registered in England and Wales This publication is intended to be a general Kellie Mundell Charity No 1107666 guide and cannot be a substitute for accounts and kept most of their , trafficking”. the government will discuss with the [email protected] Company No 5310696 professional advice. Neither the authors nor totalling £35,000, between 2015 and He said: “You employed a spotter EU and member states our future status DESIGNER the publisher accept any responsibility for loss Carrie Love PUBLISHED BY occasioned to any person acting or refraining 2016, Nottingham Crown Court heard. in Poland to identify people who were and arrangements with regard to these LexisNexis from acting as a result of material contained They have both been sentenced to six vulnerable. Your intention, by selecting agencies.” CHIEF EXECUTIVE ADDRESS © Reed Elsevier (UK) Limited 2017 in this publication. years in prison for modern slavery. vulnerable people, was to make it easier to Read more about what the Phillip Pearson IIRSM, 77 Fulham Palace Road, Printed by Headley Brothers Ltd, Kent Reproduction, copying or extracting DIRECTOR OF MEMBERSHIP London W6 8JA, UK by any means of the whole or part of this Erwin, 38, and Krystian, 35, of Harcourt control them over here. white paper outlines at www. AND COMMUNICATIONS Tel +44 (0)20 8741 9100 publication must not be undertaken without Road, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to In a statement, Sports Direct said it healthandsafetyatwork.com/brexit/ Clare Fleming Fax +44 (0)20 8741 1349 the written permission of the publishers. MANAGING EDITOR Website www.iirsm.org arrange travel with a view to exploitation welcomed the conviction and “will not white-paper-seeks-safety-continuity- Louis Wustemann Email [email protected] ISSN 1746-1359 and fraud by false representation. tolerate these kinds of behaviour”. workers-rights-protection.

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FIRE SAFETY TRAINING InBrief

KFC fined almost £1m over burns Labour market watchdog tsar named New handbook Fake fire Sir David Metcalf has been named by for safety reps the Government as the first director of safety glass labour market enforcement, and will oversee the work of three regulators The TUC has published a new guide – the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse to help trade union health and safety fraudster Authority (GLAA), the Employment representatives tackle workplace Agency Standards Inspectorate (EAS), stress. jailed for a and the HMRC National Minimum Last year seven in ten respondents (HMRC–NMW) enforcement to a TUC survey of more than 1,000 team. health and safety representatives year The union has called for Metcalf’s identified stress as the top concern in first job to be an investigation into their workplace. As a result the union working practices at the Barnsley ●● Boss passed off laminated glass as fire-proof has issued the handbook – produced ●● Fraud estimated to be in excess of £500,000 warehouse of fashion giant ASOS. with the HSE – which will help union representatives work with employers A 16 year old was left with second degree burns at this branch in Teesside Retail Park Bakery hit with £2m fine for mixer fall to find practical solutions to work- A glass manufacturer who “put profit Warburtons has been prosecuted related stress. before people’s lives” by installing Fast food giant KFC has been fined KFC said it invested £7.5 million in after a worker fell two metres The guide is based on the HSE counterfeit fire resistant glass has been £950,000 after two employees suffered health and safety measures every year. while cleaning a mixer, breaking ‘management standards’ in handling jailed for 12 months. burns while handling hot gravy without The firm admitted such accidents his back. Full story here: www. stress. It breaks down the causes of Seamus Laverty, 57, and his son, gloves. were rare, but staff failed to follow healthandsafetyatwork.com/ work-related stress into six key areas: former director of Glassworks Ireland A 16 year old boy and a woman were procedures. “The safety of our team warburtons-andrew/sears ●● demands: issues like workload, James Laverty, 26, were found guilty of hurt in separate accidents at restaurants members is hugely important to us, so work pattern and environment committing fraud by false representation in 2014 and 2015, Teesside Magistrates’ we were shocked by what happened,” Jaguar Land Rover in court after ●● control: how much say someone has in that they claimed to have supplied fire Court heard. said Chief Operating Officer Rob Swain. production line shunt over the way in which they work resistant glass to various building suppliers The teenager suffered serious burns “We have robust processes and Car giant Jaguar Land Rover has been ●● support: available resources, line when in fact it was standard laminate at the Teesside Park restaurant on 14 July procedures in place, but on these ordered to pay £900,000 after a worker management and colleagues glass. 2014 and the woman was hurt at the occasions, they were not followed and was crushed at its Solihull plant in ●● relationships: dealing with The court heard that Laverty had his Wellington Square in Stockton on we have accepted the prosecution.” the West Midlands and left with life- unacceptable behaviour and own glass business but had gone bankrupt 1 December 2015. The prosecution was brought by changing injuries. Mark Widnall, 59, promoting positive working in 2007, so the company was taken over The court heard how environmental Stockton Borough Council. Councillor was carrying out vehicle checks on the ●● role: if the person understands by his son under a new name, Glassworks health officers visited the Wellington Steve Nelson, cabinet for community production line at the factory when their role at work and does not Ireland. Square branch two days after the safety, said: “This is a huge fine that a colleague accidentally pressed the

have conflicting roles According to the prosecution, the firm Lenaghan/Pacemaker © Colm woman was hurt and found staff could sends out a very clear message that all accelerator of a Range Rover Sport as ●● change: how organisational bought the laminate glass for between Seamus Laverty was sentenced to 12 months’ not find any protective gloves. food business operators have a duty to he drove it onto the track. More: www. imprisonment and another year on licence change – large or small – is £8-£16 per sq metre and sold it for The restaurant chain was ordered to ensure the health and safety of their healthandsafetyatwork.com/jaguar- communicated. between £135-£240 per sq metre. pay the fine plus £18,700 in costs after employees and provide them with land-rover-mark-widnall A , who was a competitor £500,000, given the initial cost of the admitting health and safety breaches. suitable training.” The handbook proposes that a of the business, became suspicious of fake glass and the cost of replacing it,” group – made up of representatives Glasswork’s low tenders and acquired a said Detective Sergeant Colin Gray after from across every level of the sample of its fire safety glass. sentencing. TRANSPORT organisation – gathers information on After discovering that it was ordinary “The financial victims were the current situation in the workplace laminated safety glass that had been construction companies which bought and carries out a risk assessment stamped as fire resistant, he alerted police glass in good faith and then had to replace Haulage boss and mechanic jailed over fatal tipper truck crash based on the HSE standards. and the investigation began. it. But there were many more potential The group can then identify By selling the products to construction human victims who were exposed to The owner of a haulage company and On the day of the accident, 19 year old were tested after the collision, with an practical proposals for change that companies, Laverty obtained £145,000 unnecessary risk through no fault of their a mechanic have been jailed after a Phillip Potter was driving behind another overall efficiency of just 28%. could make a real difference, such as by deception. The list of alleged victims own, simply by being in buildings which 32-tonne truck with faulty brakes killed vehicle driven by Matthew Gordon, the Potter lost control of the lorry when tackling a long hours working culture, spreads all over the UK and the Republic did not have the appropriate fire safety four people, including a four-year-old owner-director of Grittenham Haulage the brakes failed, and it struck a number of improving workplace practices or of Ireland and includes churches, schools, glass installed,” he added. girl, when it careered down a steep hill which owned the lorry, when they vehicles, pedestrians and traffic signs, only increasing staffing levels. hospitals, universities accommodation “These included patients in hospitals, in Bath. passed signs warning of weight and speed coming to a stop when it tipped onto its side. Download the handbook for free for the elderly, shops, businesses and pupils in schools, residents in care homes As we reported last month, Mitzi restrictions. Matthew Gordon, 30, and Peter Wood, here: www.tuc.org.uk/workplace- someone’s home. and students at university as well as Steady, four, died and her grandmother, Bristol Crown Court heard that Gordon 55, were each convicted of four counts of issues/health-and-safety/stress/ Sentencing Laverty to a year in jail and firefighters in the UK and Ireland who Margaret Rogers, suffered serious injuries and mechanic Peter Wood failed to properly manslaughter. Gordon was sentenced to tackling-workplace-stress-using-hse- another year on licence, the judge said are provided with greater protection by when they were hit by the lorry as they maintain the vehicle’s braking system. A seven years and six months in prison, and stress-management. that the case was “chilling” and that users the fire resistant qualities of genuine fire crossed the road. former driver at Grittenham Haulage gave Wood to five years and three months. of the buildings had been put at risk. “By safety glass.” The heavily loaded vehicle continued evidence of persistent problems with the Potter was cleared of 14 charges, the grace of God, [harm] was avoided but down Lansdown Lane and hit a parked car, brakes on the same Scania L8 CMT vehicle including four counts of manslaughter Health and safety reps who 70% that’s no thanks to you.” killing three men inside: Stephen Vaughan, that Potter had been driving. The brakes and causing death by dangerous driving identified stress as a top issue Number of months Seamus “We estimate the total cost of this 12 34, Philip Allen, 52, and Robert Parker, 59. were found to be inadequate when they over the accident on 9 February 2015. Laverty must serve in prison fraudulent activity to be in excess of

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Where a company has incurred a significant loss, recovery could take some time and subsequent insurance premiums could be increased.”

understanding of regulatory compliance. the SME Economic Engine: Through This means they miss the opportunity to Transparent, Simple and Strategic assess the contractor’s true capabilities. Procurement. How safe is Supported by the HSE, SSIP aims to Costly mistakes streamline prequalification and encourage The new regime in health and safety straightforward mutual recognition sentencing introduced in February 2016 between its member schemes. (which came into force immediately, SSIP is actively reducing health and irrespective of date of offence) provided safety assessment costs and bureaucracy your supply in the supply chain, by making cross- a definitive guideline for courts, which increased the potential fines significantly recognition between member schemes as dependent on the offence category, effective as possible, and highlighting the culpability and harm. savings to buyers and suppliers. All SSIP Judging the capability of suppliers member schemes have fully committed chain? and contractors gives a business a clear to the vision of driving unnecessary cost indication of the skills and experience to and confusion out of supplier health proceed with their products or services, and safety assessment, and SSIP’s core In today’s changing business environment, but is this sufficient? It is not uncommon philosophy is to enable effective cross- for contractors to overpromise and recognition between existing schemes. supply chain management has taken on an even underdeliver, potentially leading to legal Furthermore, the SSIP core criteria for more high profile and important role. But where proceedings against the contractor and assessments is aligned to the Government- reputational damage for the company. backed construction pre-qualification does the responsibility lie? IIRSM’s Technical Assessment of a contractor’s overall risk document PAS 91, ensuring consistency management structure and organisation, within supply chain management. Director Peter Hall explains. including its occupational health and More than 75,000 suppliers are safety management system, has become registered with an SSIP member scheme significantly more important to clients as and this information is readily accessible they have been employed to do. This getting it wrong is becoming more and via the SSIP web portal – which is free to he world has changed beyond require different legal and regulatory affected (including other contractors), includes occupational health and safety, more costly. access and provides an easy way of finding recognition over the past two standards, the following legislation visitors and members of the public to environmental and quality standards. Assessing and managing a single out if a supplier holds valid certification Tdecades – businesses are moving to should be taken into account as a protect them from any risk posed by the Unfortunately, there are many contractor can be a complex and and confirms compliance with the SSIP cloud-based services and many use third minimum: work being undertaken. examples and reported court cases time-consuming undertaking for any core criteria and UK health and safety parties to provide support on a day-to-day ●● Health and Safety at Work Act Companies may apply a number where subcontracted work has failed to organisation – regardless of its size – as legislation. basis. With advances in technology and the ●● Management of Health and Safety at of different strategies to assess or meet the required standards, resulting there are a number of core elements Eleanor Eaton, Chair of SSIP, quantifies drive for greater efficiency, more and more Work Regulations impose occupational health and safety in accidents, injury and potentially a that should be considered. Companies the savings available to clients and suppliers services are being outsourced – be this the ●● Construction (Design and requirements on their suppliers and worst-case scenario where someone loses whose procurement departments have from SSIP activity: “Since inception of SSIP development and support of applications or Management) Regulations (CDM) 2015 contractors. Many of these strategies their life. In addition, loss of property, put in place a vendor approved list and we are pleased to advise mutual recognition the hosting of services. The cost benefits of ●● Control of Substances Hazardous to are often part of a broader sustainable equipment, production time, product and outsource their non-core activities to a has enabled savings to suppliers in excess of these approaches are quite simple to assess, Health supply chain management approach potentially key staff may prove costly number of subcontractors may enlist one £41 million in addition to the time savings but what about the risks? ●● Equality Act 2010 in collaboration with the company where some are insufficiently insured or of a number of vendor assurance schemes by all parties involved.” There are two specific supply chains that ●● Companies Act 2006 procurement department and operational uninsured. Where legal procedures have that have grown over the last five to ten SSIP is keen to work with any many companies rely on: ●● Data Protection Act. management. been initiated, fines could be significant years and agree with them an appropriate organisation who would like to know more ●● companies that supply goods and and dependent on the profitability of the standard each contractor must meet to be about the benefits of recognising the many materials It is important to remember that Below par company. Where a company has incurred included on the approved list. Each vendor thousands of suppliers who are currently ●● contractors and subcontractors providing while suppliers merely attend your site Many service companies and clients a significant loss, recovery could take assurance scheme will charge an annual assessed by SSIP members. specific services such as maintenance, to deliver goods and materials, they are require the assessment of contractors some time and subsequent insurance fee per subcontractor – this is usually paid There is no argument that there is a construction, cleaning or catering. still subject to your site rules as well as to ensure that they not only meet legal premiums could be increased. by the subcontractor to be assessed and need for effective and sound business risk national regulations. and regulatory standards, but also The latest statistics from the HSE approved. management, including health and safety Each in their own right has implications Contractors employed to work that the company has the leadership, show that in 2014/2015, 586 cases were in the management of the supply chain. for the both occupational health and safety on client sites could potentially pose management organisation, processes prosecuted by the regulator and 70 cases Keep it simple By doing so, it will help to ensure that and working conditions of suppliers and significant health and safety risks. and procedures, appropriate levels of were brought by local authorities. A Several of the current vendor assurance through consistent and concerted efforts, contractors. Any such risks are shared by the client insurance, financial resources and that number of reported cases in 2016 describe schemes are part of the Safety Scheme UK businesses will continue to help reduce company on whose premises the work is all company management and staff have where the company had not undertaken in Procurement (SSIP) Forum. The SSIP ill health, accidents and loss of life in line Legal awareness carried out as they have a duty to their the skills, competence, knowledge and a thorough contractor assessment was founded in May 2009 following with the HSE strategy of helping Great While every industry sector and job may own employees, others who may be understanding to undertake the work because of work pressures or a lack of the Government’s report, Accelerating Britain Work Well.

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EVENT BRANCH UPDATE UPCOMING BRANCH MEETINGS Why thinking When’s your Record numbers attend differently next meeting? meeting in Dubai can help you East England 21 February 2017 | Sheringham embed a safety Register: [email protected] culture London 21 February 2017 | Hammersmith Topic: The health and safety ●● 16 May 2017 ●● DoubleTree by Hilton, Milton Keynes market Speaker: James Irwin Register: [email protected] Leadership is a vital component of a safety, health and environment process, but it is all too easy for business leaders Northern Scotland to concentrate on operational issues 23 February 2017 | Aberdeen at the expense of engaging on safety at the realities of leadership, targets Topic: How good risk management matters. It is also widely understood and bureaucracy in today’s world and practice impacts on companies and that good occupational safety and Mark Scoggins will underline the folly of their insurance health is good for business. So how can ignoring near misses. Speaker: Graham Hudson practitioners encourage business leaders The SHE Show brings together top Register: [email protected] to lay the foundations of a safety culture safety, health and environment influencers of construction work taking place in the ●● Delegates included former IIRSM chairman in their workplaces? The SHE Show helps in a series of engaging talks and the best Northern England Keith Scott Emirates, it’s fundamental something is to answer this fundamental question. suppliers of products and services in the ● done to raise awareness. 27 February 2017 | Newcastle ● Session focused on applying the hierarchy of industry. The SHE Show South, Milton controls when working at height The group decided it will: Register: [email protected] Encourage effective leadership in safety, Champion prevention by looking at past Keynes, will give delegates the opportunity ●● enter Memorandums of health and environment events and current practices to see and hear the tools that help to build With more than 60 attendees, the Understanding with like-minded Strong leadership in health and safety The risks in a business can be better a lasting safety culture in the workplace. Yorkshire recent United Arab Emirates’ Branch organisations such as IPAF and is based on management behaviours understood when there are practitioners 28 February 2017 | York meeting, held at the International HSE PASMA to encourage the cooperation that clearly show that health and safety involved in safety management at all The SHE Show South takes place on Topic: Principal Designer legal update Council’s premises in Jebel Ali, Dubai, and collaboration within the UAE’s is a priority, and that management is levels of an organisation, and information Tuesday, 16 May 2017 at the DoubleTree and sentencing guidelines was its most successful ever. HSE community in relation to willing and able to get involved. Effective regarding past events can help improve by Hilton, MK Dons Stadium, Milton Register: [email protected] With guests including former IIRSM awareness, capacity building, training, communication right across an organisation safety in the present. Paul Mahoney Keynes. IIRSM members receive a 10% Chairman Keith Scott as well as many professional development through is a key signal to staff that management speaks first-hand at The SHE Show discount on the delegate fee. For further new faces and a full Branch committee, attendance at seminars, workshops supports a rigorous approach to safety. Our South about a life changing accident at information on The SHE Show or to book a East Midlands the theme was working at height, with a and conferences speakers, at The SHE Show South, Gerard work and its physical, psychological and place at The SHE Show South, call 01257 8 March 2017 | Ashby de la Zouch particular focus on scaffolding. ●● continue to influence government Hand and Dan Terry delve into how this can social impact. Bruce Sutherland looks 450060 or visit www.thesheshow.com Topic: Asbestos Presented by Steven Gregory, organisations through its working be achieved by encouraging the leader in all Register: [email protected] who has 25 years’ experience in the partnerships to develop or enhance of us and developing meaningful two-way scaffolding and access industry, the regulations throughout the Emirates. communications. Safety Maverick United Arab Emirates session covered legislative requirements of work at height, and looked in detail The UAE Branch’s next meeting takes 8 March 2017 | Dubai Develop a culture of measurement, at the application of the hierarchy of place on 8 March, once again in Dubai. Topic: Road safety awareness and accountability controls. Delegates listened to case The event will feature two presentations SMEs need more help Speakers: Thomas Edelmann Poor workplace safety and health has studies for both working at height and on road safety, which is the second (RoadSafetyUAE) and Laura Kelly a significant impact on people and According to the Occupational Safety entrepreneurs to look at wellbeing, scaffolding, including UAE incidents biggest killer in the Emirates. The first (Serco) businesses. Safety professionals are and Health Administration (OSHA), more health, safety and environmental issues of significance, and learned about session will be facilitated by Thomas Register: [email protected] passionate about making a difference, but than 99% of businesses in the EU are alongside the capital risk they take scaffolding definitions, terminology and Edelmann, Founder and Managing how well do current safety management categorised as SMEs (defined as firms in setting up the business in the first basic common components. Director of RoadSafetyUAE, who will practices fit the 21st Century business with less than 250 employees) and many place? Can we get banks, private equity North West England As Steve outlined in his presentation, look at innovative ways to prevent such environment? A focus on behaviours, will fall off the regulated radar. So it’s and venture capitalists to insist on risk 16 March 2017 | Warrington it is well known that falls from heights tragedies. backed up with accurate and timely not surprising that small firms seem to management to include non-financial Topic: Challenges in countering the is globally one of the highest causes In support will be Serco’s Laura Kelly information, can help develop a culture think that safety is not for them. Health measures? Can we give more help at terrorism threat of deaths in the workplace. Though (Assurance Director – Middle East) who of safety awareness and accountability. and safety legislation has sometimes the start-up phase, so risk of all kinds is Speaker: David Wells, Regional Prevent reporting is not ‘leading practice’ within will continue the theme by sharing how This can provide the basis for improved been put in the ‘red tape’ box and has inculcated into the DNA of the venture? Coordinator, North West Counter the UAE, it was reported in 2013 by public services provider Serco tackles business performance and profitability. been criticised by many for stifling The world needs entrepreneurs – but Terrorism Unit the Ministry of Health that 53 fatal the issue of road safety. Martin Ballard and Neil Sheehan present enterprise. So how do we encourage we need healthy people as well! Register: [email protected] accidents occurred that year alone while To book your place, please email new ways to look at safety management. working at height. With the high level [email protected]

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PAKISTAN USA BANGLADESH AUSTRALIA EUROPE Five workers burn Initiative to combat Garment brands Study calls for rethink to death at Gadani Commission launches new chemical hazards in exploiting children on working week initiative to fight work cancer shipbreaking yard nail salons Major brands are implicated in the Researchers from Australian National exploitation of child labour in factories in University used data from 8,000 working At least five workers died in a fire aboard Nail bars are rapidly increasing in the small Bangladesh, a report has concluded. adults as part of the Household, Income an LPG container ship at the Gadani , but there has been little Researchers found low wages and long and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey. shipbreaking yard in Pakistan on 9 January, regulation of the chemicals used in the working hours at firms supplying garments They found the work limit for a healthy in yet another deadly incident at the yard. salons, even though many have been linked to multinationals including C&A, Gap, H&M, life should be set at 39 hours a week, The ship’s owner, Dewan Rizwan, a to serious health problems. In California, Esprit and Marks and Spencer play a key rather than the 48-hour week limit set former Chairman of the Gadani Shipbreaking one programme is trying to change that role in the decision of parents to take their internationally about 80 years ago. Owners Association, fled from the shipyard by asking nail salon owners to voluntarily children out of school to allow them to work. Working beyond 39 hours, the when the fire broke out, according to improve safety. The Branded Childhood report, which researchers said, also puts employees at reports. He was later detained by police in Nail salons are big business in the United notes that more than 3.5 million children risk of developing problems. the nearby city of Hub. States – raking in approximately $8.5 billion are in work in Bangladesh, is available at: Almost a quarter of Australians worked Despite scores of fatalities at Gadani in revenue in 2015. Some of the chemicals http://bit.ly/2kJFWE7. longer than the recommended 39 hours. in the last few months, no measures have used in salons are known to cause skin been taken to improve safety, according to disorders and respiratory problems, and trade union IndustriALL. An estimated 100 possibly even cancer, miscarriages and birth AUSTRALIA workers were dismantling the ship at plot defects. Formaldehyde and toluene are no. 60 when the blaze started and had to just two of the risky ingredients in the nail be rescued by lifeboat. A fire erupted on © istockphoto/DragonImages polishes, solvents, glues and hardeners in Stuntman fatally shot during the same ship just two weeks before this Some four million more workers will benefit from the latest pledge constant use in salons; the Environmental incident, though that time there were no Protection Agency (EPA) lists at least 20 such filming for music video casualties. The European Commission has pledged “acquis”, as part of the Regulatory chemicals. “There has been no respite from to better protect workers against work- Fitness and Performance Programme Salons that participate in the Healthy Nail accidents, injuries and deaths despite the related cancer in a new initiative. (REFIT) which aims at making Salon Collaborative must make significant claims of improvement in occupational Set exposure limits or other measures EU legislation simpler, more relevant changes to their business, including buying health and safety measures at the Gadani for another seven cancer-causing and effective. The proposal and changes less toxic nail polishes, thinners and ship breaking yards,” said Nasir Mansoor, chemicals will improve protection of were developed in close consultation removers. All workers are required to wear from IndustriALL affiliate the National some four million workers in Europe, with stakeholders at all levels, notably specific types of gloves and masks when Trade Union Federation of Pakistan (NTUF). according to EU-OSHA. It is estimated social partners, according to reports. using certain products. Owners are also “Safety is one of the most neglected areas in that about 160,000 Europeans die from Other aims of the plan include required to purchase a portable mechanical shipbreaking.” illnesses related to their work every helping businesses, in particular SMEs ventilation unit. Officials from the environment year. and micro-enterprises, in their efforts The EPA recently gave the programme a department said a chemical foam inside the The review of the EU-OSH legislation to comply with the existing legislative grant to help it offer micro-loans to salons ship was responsible for the fire. and the changes to the Carcinogens framework; and putting a bigger focus wishing to upgrade. and Mutagens Directive fit within on results and less on paperwork, In September, California passed USA the Commission’s ongoing work on after research revealed that one in legislation to help expand the programme establishing a European Pillar of three micro enterprises do not assess across the state, by training cities and Social Rights, which aims to adapt EU workplace risks. counties on how to certify healthy nail Reports highlights legislation to changing work patterns A guidance paper for employers with salons in their regions. importance of and society. The consultations and practical tips aimed at facilitating their debates on the Pillar have confirmed risk assessment and at making it more JAPAN © Marc Robertson / Newspix/REX/Shutterstock enforcement the importance of occupational health effective was published to coincide Johann Ofner died from chest wounds on the set of a music video in Brisbane and safety at work as a cornerstone with the launch, and includes advice on A commitment to effective regulation of the EU acquis and put an emphasis how to deal with rapidly increasing OSH Government tells An actor has died after being shot while armourer to supply the weapons, and and enforcement of workplace safety on prevention and enforcement, risks such as psychosocial, ergonomic workers to take a break filming a music video in the Australian advance notice to police if weapons was behind the Obama administration’s according to the body. This also follows or ageing related-risks. It is available to city of Brisbane. were to be fired. It also requires a “safety “exemplary” record on workplace safety, a up on broad evaluation of the existing download at: http://bit.ly/2kw7A7r The Japanese Government is urging people Johann Ofner, 28, suffered a chest officer on set who will do a safety new report has concluded. to leave work early and go shopping in an wound inside the Brooklyn Standard bar breakdown” and a stunt coordinator for The policy brief from the National attempt to reduce deaths from on 23 January. Several firearms had been any live action involving the weapons. Employment Law Project (NELP) notes that “OSHA’s rule to prevent workers getting Safety and Health Act and the Mine Safety and to boost the ailing economy. discharged during the filming, according The band said a production “adopting and enforcing sensible rules saves killed in trenching and excavation work and Health Act were enacted in the 1970s, The voluntary policy – known as to police. company had employed the stunt group lives”. has reduced workplace deaths by more the rate of workers being killed on the job Premium Friday – calls on employers to let The video was for Sydney-based responsible for hiring both Ofner and a NELP’s paper says any step back than 40%; its standard for handling blood has declined by more than 75%, and the their workers out at 3pm on the last Friday hip hop group Bliss n Eso. The gun was licensed armourer. The armourer was on by the Occupational Safety and Health borne pathogens has virtually eliminated number of fatalities has declined from about of every month to start the weekend early. loaded with blanks, not live ammunition, scene at the time and the filming had Administration (OSHA) from its commitment occupationally acquired hepatitis B fatalities 14,000 a year in 1970 to 4,836 worker deaths Around 200 people die every year a statement from the band’s management “all of the appropriate permits”, the to enforcement will cost lives. It says as well that killed 120 workers every year; and in 2015, with a workforce twice as large. from or overwork and a period said. statement said. as witnessing a dramatic decline in fatalities its grain handling standard led to a 70% Worker Safety and Health in the Obama of economic downturn and job insecurity The use of guns on Australian film sets Police are investigating the “unusual under the Obama administration, safety decrease in fatalities,” the briefing notes. Years: An Exemplary Record is available is only increasing work pressures in the required permits, a licensed and qualified circumstances”. rules have had a demonstrable impact. Figures reveal that since the Occupational to read at: http://bit.ly/2lf7iPx. country, said Trade Minister Hiroshige Seko.

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developed work-related stress, anxiety or depression in 2015-16. This corresponds to are at high risk of a total of 488,000 workers per year. developing burnout Avoiding Interestingly, according to the results of a new study published in Personality and Individual Differences, cognitive symptoms of depression, particularly ruminative thoughts and pessimistic explanations of UK full-time of life experiences, are already present employees experience in the burnout stage, rather than being a either burnout or consequence of it. This suggests, say the anxiety in their job authors, that burnout could, in fact, be a Burnout isn’t a new phenomenon, but it is becoming depressive syndrome. Against this backdrop, burnout and its have elevated increasingly prevalent. We look at some effective health consequences can have a profound levels of impact on the health system, significantly emotional prevention strategies. increasing healthcare costs, particularly in mental health. The King’s Fund estimated exhaustion that depression alone, for instance, will cost the UK £12.5 billion by 2026 if no action is taken to reduce its occurrence. ccupational burnout is a their job. A study of British social workers, There is also, and importantly, the role ambiguity, conflicts and incivility. Monitoring risk and symptoms medical condition caused by published in the same year by Community impact on organisations. Burnout is a According to PHE, “Changes to workload It is also important to have a system in Olong-term exposure to work- Care and Queen’s University in Belfast, widely-recognised cause of high rates or working practices appear to reduce place that allows managers to promptly related . Typical symptoms found that 73% of respondents had of sickness absence, job dissatisfaction, [these] stressors and factors that can identify employees with or at risk of include emotional and physical elevated levels of – intention to leave, and turnover. The lead to burnout.” However, organisations burnout, so that adequate help, including exhaustion, reduced sense of personal one of the key dimensions of burnout. And resulting financial burden due to loss and employers also need to put effort confidential counselling and peer support, accomplishment, depersonalisation and the latest available figures for GPs indicate of productivity and unplanned staff into creating a culture of support and can be provided as soon as possible, cynicism. that 50% are at high risk of developing the replacement expenses, can be heavy. For collaboration, which is mainly achieved before the situation escalates out of It can affect workers in all professions, condition. example, the latest available estimates, through effective communication, control. but police officers, teachers, social workers, As well as causing sleep problems, by Oxford Economics, show that replacing teamwork and leadership. Of course, Advancements in technology promise general practitioners, nurses and healthcare headaches and impairment, one employee in a key sector such as stress cannot be eliminated completely. to make this easier. Recently, Swiss assistants are considered the most at risk, left untreated occupational burnout can accounting or legal costs on average So, organisations must also empower their researchers have been able to assess largely due to the unique physical and lead to alcohol or substance abuse, and £30,614. The overall annual cost for employees to successfully manage work- job burnout risk and symptoms in a emotional demands of their job. increase the risk of type 2 diabetes, heart replacing staff in the UK adds up to 4.13 related stressors, through training and sample of more than 11,000 employees The current overall prevalence , stroke, anxiety and depression. billion, according to the consultancy. education. For example, research led by using a mobile app that detects changes of occupational burnout in Britain in The last two impact particularly heavily on the University of East Anglia suggests that in attitude and energy. The lead unknown. Figures from a 2015 YouGov the UK workforce. Serious but preventable improving nurses’ self-efficacy (believing investigator, Professor Rolan von Känel survey commissioned by Virgin suggest The Office for National Statistics’ The good thing is that, while serious, in our ability to perform tasks and achieve of the University of Bern, reports in the that 51% of UK full-time employees Labour Force Survey (LFS) shows occupational burnout can be prevented. goals) has a protective effect against journal BioPsychoSocial that experience either burnout or anxiety in that 1,510 out of 100,000 employees Public Health England (PHE) and Leeds and consequent the technology has “the potential to Beckett University published a joint burnout. timely avert the dire consequences of report highlighting the importance Other evidence-based stress- burnout”. for UK organisations across industries management strategies include and sectors to prevent burnout in the exercising regularly, practicing Next steps first place, as a key intervention to techniques such as mindfulness, and Burnout is a widely recognised create working environments that maintaining a good work-life balance. . But the existing promote employee wellbeing and foster A US study of university employees evidence suggests that it can be productivity. indicated that providing training that prevented, through the reduction of To do this successfully requires a three- promotes positive coping strategies like workplace stressors, staff training, and step approach involving the reduction of the above, over negative ones such as risk monitoring. It is important that, work-related stressors, stress-management drinking alcohol or overeating, is also as emphasised by PHE in its report, training for staff, and burnout risk crucial. organisations and employers take action monitoring. In this regard, interventions Richard Evens, Commercial Director and focus on burnout prevention. By at the organisational level play a crucial of the British Safety Council, says: doing so, they have the potential to make role. The PHE report found evidence to “Employers across industries and important contributions to employee suggest that they may be more effective, sectors need to provide all staff with wellbeing, while improving productivity and produce longer-lasting benefits, than training and other opportunities to learn and reducing the pressure on our health interventions at the individual level alone. strategies for managing job stressors, system. Well-known work-related stressors as well as the necessary resources to in all industries include time pressure, implement these strategies, such as time With thanks to the British Safety excessive workload, working , and practical support.” Council for this article.

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If you are looking for advice, call burning. the health and safety information Typically for a Class A fire risk helpline with your questions on the provision of one water-based Join the conversation Q&As +44 (0)1296 678 465 or email extinguisher for approximately every The opinion corner is designed to gauge exactly what our members are [email protected] 200m² of floor space with a minimum of thinking on current issues in the industry. If you have a question you would like for information on any health and two extinguishers per floor will normally us to ask members, please email: [email protected] VERTIGO safety related topic. Here are just a be adequate. member of staff can undertake visual few of your recent queries. Where it is determined that there This month we’re asking: We have a member of staff who suffers inspections if they have enough are also other classes of fire risk, the Have you implemented with vertigo. He tends to experience knowledge and training. However, when appropriate type, number and size of a couple of episodes a year, though undertaking combined inspection and risk assessment indicates that there is a extinguisher should be provided. Further a colour code system for his latest one seems to have lasted testing a greater level of knowledge and risk to the health of its employees who information is available in BS 5306-8: hard hats on your site? a couple of months. He is deskbound experience is needed and the person will are or are liable to be exposed to noise, Where the fire risk is not confined to a Did it work well? a lot of the time but he also trains need: the employer shall ensure that such particular location, for example Class other staff in a training room setting. ●● the right equipment to do the tests employees are placed under suitable A fires, the fire extinguishers should be His symptoms are often dizziness and ●● the ability to use this test equipment health surveillance which shall include positioned on escape routes close to the Tell us your experience: visit www. light headiness. What can we do to properly testing of their hearing. An employee exit from the room or floor or the final linkedin.com and search Groups for alleviate his problems when at his desk ●● the ability to properly understand the to whom this regulation applies shall, exit from the building. Similarly, where IIRSM and request to join. or training? test results. when required by his employer and at the particular fire risk is specifically the cost of his employer, present himself located (for example flammable liquids) You may wish to involve an Therefore, if the above can be met during his working hours for such health the appropriate fire extinguisher should Work Regulations simply requires safety REPORTING A RACKING COLLAPSE occupational health practitioner or get then he would not require further surveillance procedures as may be be located near to the hazard. They helmets to be suitable. written consent from the employee training. See www.hse.gov.uk/electricity/ required for the purposes of paragraph should be placed on a dedicated stand Highways England said that from A centre leg of racking in our to contact their GP regarding any faq-portable-appliance-testing.htm for (1). or hung on a wall at a convenient height 1 January 2017 all of its construction and warehouse collapsed recently. No limitations they may have placed on the more information. The associated guidance also so that employees can easily lift them maintenance sites that adopt a helmet pallets came off the racking, so is this individual and the type of work he can states: Regulation 9(5) requires your off (at about 1m for larger extinguishers colour code for specific roles should use reportable under RIDDOR? The racking and can’t do. The following links may be HEALTH SURVEILLANCE employees to cooperate with your health and 1.5m for smaller ones to the level of a colour system. weighed less than five tonnes. of assistance to you. surveillance programme by attending the handle). Ideally no one should have The decision as to whether this or any NHS Choices advise that some cases A client has been advised to provide their health surveillance appointments. to travel more than 30m to reach a fire other colour scheme will be followed on Assuming no one was injured by the of vertigo improve over time, without health surveillance to its landscape However, you must arrange for this as extinguisher. If there is a risk of malicious a particular site will be a decision made collapse of the racking, the only way treatment. However, some people have operators for hearing because of the part of their paid employment and cover use you may need to use alternative and by the organisation in control of that site; the incident would be reportable under repeated episodes for many months, or levels of noise that they are regularly any costs. L108 Controlling Noise at Work more secure locations. BS 5306-8:2012 therefore, we would suggest that if any RIDDOR would be if the incident meets even years, such as those with Ménière’s exposed to. One of the operators is is available at www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/ Fire extinguishing installations and of your employees would be working the criteria of any of the dangerous disease. refusing to take the hearing test. He books/l108.htm. equipment on premises is available at on sites under the control of other occurrences listed in 2 of There are specific treatments for is also refusing to sign a statement Therefore, if an employer has http://shop.bsigroup.com/en/ProductDet organisations, you should check to see if RIDDOR. some causes of vertigo. A series of simple confirming that he is declining the test. identified through the findings of their ail/?pid=000000000030152566 they have adopted any colour codes for Paragraph 23 relates to structural head movements (known as the Epley Must the employee submit to the risk assessment that health surveillance There are many other guides relating safety helmets to avoid confusion. collapse and the legislation states: The manoeuvre) is used to treat BPPV. test? Can the company enforce this is required for certain employees and to various premises, including offices unintentional collapse or partial collapse , such as prochlorperazine test? What other options, if any, does one of these employees refuses to and shops, factories and warehouses, RED DIESEL of – (a) any structure which involves a fall and some antihistamines, can help in the the company have? undergo health surveillance provided in sleeping accommodation, residential of more than five tonnes of material; or early stages or most cases of vertigo. accordance with the above guidance, care premises, educational premises, Can an independent boarding school (b) any floor or wall of any place of work Many people with vertigo also benefit Yes, the employee would need to then they would be in breach of small and medium places of assembly use red diesel in a tractor? arising from or in connection with ongoing from vestibular rehabilitation training submit to the hearing test. The Health health and safety law and could face (holding 300 people or less), large places construction work (including demolition (VRT), which is a series of and Safety at Work Act is concerned disciplinary action from their employer of assembly (holding more than 300 No. It is illegal to use rebated heavy refurbishment and maintenance) whether for people with dizziness and balance with the general duties of employees as a result. people), healthcare premises, animal oils (gas oil usually marked and dyed to above or below ground. problems. at work and this states: It shall be premises and stables, transport premises become red diesel/kerosene) as fuel in a Only structural collapses associated The Meniere’s Society has produced the duty of every employee while at FIREFIGHTING EQUIPMENT and facilities, available at www. road vehicle unless you get a licence to with ongoing construction maintenance some guidance for employers: www. work – (a) to take reasonable care for gov.uk/workplace-fire-safety-your- pay the difference between the full rate and demolition work are required to be menieres.org.uk/information-and- the health and safety of himself and I would like to know what the criteria responsibilities/fire-risk-assessments. of duty on the fuel and the rebated rate reported under paragraph 23. Paragraph support/day-to-day/information-for- of other persons who may be affected is for determining the number of actually paid on the fuel used. 24 requires you to report unintentional employers and this document explains by his acts or omissions at work; and fire extinguishers in a single storey COLOUR CODE SYSTEM FOR HARD HATS Only vehicles which are specifically collapses of falsework applies whether how to support an employee with (b) as regards any duty or requirement building. The premises in question excluded from the legal definition of construction work is taking place or not. vertigo: http://support.fitforwork. imposed on his employer or any other is 26.5m x 18.5m and there will be I heard recently that new legislation to ‘road vehicle’ may use red diesel as road Falsework means any temporary structure org/app/answers/detail/a_id/767/~/ person by or under any of the relevant various chemicals on site. standardise the safety helmet colours fuel. These are known as ‘excepted used to support a permanent structure supporting-an-employee-with-vertigo statutory provisions to cooperate with on construction sites came into force vehicles’. Unless the vehicle is included in during its erection and until that structure him so far as is necessary to enable that The Fire Safety Risk Assessment Guide in January. I can’t find any guidance that section it counts as a ‘road vehicle’ becomes self-supporting. This information PAT TEST TRAINING duty or requirement to be performed or for Factories and Warehouses states that or information regarding changing and must use fully duty paid fuel. can be found at www.hse.gov.uk/riddor/ complied with. A copy of the Act can fire extinguishers provided should be legislation or even which legislation More information si available at dangerous-occurences.htm Does a fully skilled and qualified be viewed in full at www.hse.gov.uk/ appropriate to the specific risks found in is supposedly changing. Can you www.gov.uk/government/publications/ Therefore, we believe the incident electrician require further training to legislation/hswa.htm. your premises in accordance with Table enlighten me please? excise-notice-75-fuel-for-road-vehicles/ would not be reportable under RIDDOR use a PAT testing unit? Building on these general duties the 1 at: www.gov.uk/government/uploads/ excise-notice-75-fuel-for-road-vehicles as the collapse did not involve the fall more specific requirements of Regulation system/uploads/attachment_data/ There is nothing specific under health As to whether a tractor not used on of more than five tonnes of material and The person doing testing work needs to 9 of the Control of Noise at Work file/14882/fsra-factories-warehouses. and safety legislation regarding the the public highway by a school would it does not appear that there was any be competent to do it. In many low-risk Regulations 2005 is concerned with pdf. This table shows the different colour of safety helmets. Regulation 4 be allowed to use red diesel, we would on-going construction work taking place environments a sensible (competent) health surveillance. It states: (1) If the classes of fire according to what is of the Personal Protective Equipment at suggest contacting HMRC directly. at the time.

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In order to achieve our vision for IIRSM of a Branch Committee. However, we are ●● providing intelligence to keep IIRSM’s members to lead the way in managing risk keen to give those that wish to become more staff and membership aware of industry to benefit people, society and business, involved the opportunity to do so and for trends and hot topics the Institute has embarked on a strategy this to be done in cooperation with the IIRSM ●● representing and supporting executive for growth, which we believe will raise the team. We can’t achieve our goals without the team attendance at stakeholder profile of our members and enhance their support of our members and stakeholders meetings influence and opportunities. and so we are seeking Ambassadors to assist ●● championing or taking a lead role in Our new strategy is based on the with building awareness and growing our specific projects or initiatives belief that there is a requirement for a networks and influence. Our Ambassador ●● influencing others to buy into IIRSM’s membership organisation that covers the Network will support the work of the vision and campaigns. full spectrum of risk management. The management team, Council and Committees Institute’s new direction has been formed in in helping IIRSM roll out its strategy over the Essential criteria consultation with industry and individuals. next five years and beyond. ●● a genuine desire and drive to represent We are confident that the majority of IIRSM IIRSM Ambassadors will fulfil a range of IIRSM and its members’ interests members buy into the need for a new activities to support the work of the Institute ●● integrity and impartiality strategy and believe the chosen path to be a and you will be regularly informed about ●● knowledge of the impact of risk positive step forward for the Institute. developments and successes to enable you management on business, society and In a rapidly changing global environment, to actively promote our objectives and key government risk management is emerging as one of the messages. ●● a broad knowledge of your sector most important functions in a business. ●● the willingness to work with the While many risk practitioners initially Could you be an IIRSM Ambassador? executive team to ensure that messaging developed a firm foundation for their career Ambassadors are usually well connected and activity supports IIRSM’s strategy in health and safety, the role encompasses and have the ability to establish trust and ●● you must be a member of the Institute. so much more. The industry must evolve to build awareness and support by leveraging reflect this new reality. their networks to benefit the organisation You can read more about our strategy Our strategy will ensure that the Institute they represent. in the January 2017 issue of Insight or will be a place for professional development Requirements of the role may include, but download it from our website: www. not only for those working in health and are not restricted to, the following: iirsm.org/our-strategy-and-business- safety, but those that manage other business ●● championing IIRSM in their sector, plan-2021 risks such as HR, security, reputation, legal, company, industry or groups environment and IT. Having a professional ●● using their own networks to raise the body whose sole focus is risk makes it easier profile of IIRSM and its members To express your interest in becoming for professions to engage in a more equal and ●● providing expertise to support IIRSM an IIRSM Ambassador please visit: meaningful way. outputs and thought leadership www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/ IIRSM has a passionate and committed ●● providing input to media comment and IIRSMAmbassador and a member of the membership and many of you already act as social media networks team will be in touch. Ambassadors, either unofficially or as part ●● speaking on behalf of IIRSM at events

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