Presentation from Sustainex 2013

1. Protect your profit
Jim King
HSENI

2. What will HSENI look for?
• Vehicles and workplace transport
• Work at height
• Maintenance activity
• Control of asbestos
• Legionella control
• Slips, trips
• Back injuries

3. Domino Theory
Lack of
Management
Control
Unsafe
underlying
causes
Unsafe acts,
omissions
or conditions
Accident Injury, damage
near miss
Emphasis on management failure rather than
individual failure

4. Multicausation Theory (Tree)
Underlying
Causes
Unsafe
Acts
Accident
Injury
Loss
Underlying
Causes
Unsafe
Conditions

5. Unsafe Acts / Omissions
• Operating without authority
• Using faulty equipment
• Failing to follow instructions
• Horseplay
• Failure to use PPE
• Operating at unsafe speed

6. Unsafe Conditions
• Inadequate/missing
guarding
• Poor housekeeping
• Defective equipment
• Inadequate lighting
• Unsuitable/damaged PPE
• Trip hazards
• Badly maintained equipment

7. Costs of Accidents – Accident Iceberg
Accident Iceberg
£1
£8 - £36
Insured costs
Uninsured costs
The Cost of Accidents at Work – HSG 96

8. Costs of Accidents
Insured costs
• Injury – Employers Liability insurance
• Public liability
• Fire insurance
• Damage to vehicles, plant, buildings etc.
• Illness

9. Costs of Accidents
Uninsured costs
• Product/material damage
• Tool/equipment damage
• Legal costs
• Site clearance
• Production delays
• Additional labour/overtime

10. Costs of Accidents
Uninsured costs
• Investigation time
• Clerical effort
• Fines
• Loss of expertise
• Loss of experienced workers
• Damage to company
image/reputation

11. Accident Facts
On average 245 people die at work each year.
 30,000 serious work place injuries happen each year.
 38.5 million work days are lost each year due to work
place injuries.
 25,000 people leave the work force every year never
to return due harm suffered at work.
70% of incidents are preventable by good management.

12. Costs of Accidents
• Poor safety management costs the country
£16 billion per year (2–3% of GDP).
• The above equates to £200 per employee.
• Three in ten organisations have no H&S
budget.
• 1/3 of all organisations have managers who
fail to appreciate the importance of H&S.
British Safety Council Survey

13. Visibility
• Lack of all round visibility played significant
part in many incidents
• Fit curved convex mirrors + CCTV/Radar for
all round visibility
• Fit and maintain reversing alarms
• All personnel to wear proper high visibility
clothing

14. Provision and Use of Work Equipment
1999
Regulation 28 (e) – “Every employer shall ensure
that, where self-propelled work equipment
may, while in motion, involve risk to the safety
of persons where the driver’s direct field of
vision is inadequate to ensure safety, there
are adequate devices for improving his vision
so far as is reasonably practicable”

15. Provision and Use of Work Equipment
1999
Regulation 28 (e) – “So far as is reasonably
practicable, mobile work equipment to have
adequate devices to improve the driver’s field
of vision where this is otherwise inadequate.
Such devices may include mirrors or closed-
circuit television (CCTV) and the provision of
these devices can be used to meet the
requirements of the regulations.”

16. Provision and Use of Work Equipment
1999
Regulation 28 (e) – “Examples of devices
which can aid the drivers vision include:
Plane, angled and curved mirrors
Fresnel lenses
Radar
CCTV systems

17. Basic Guidance (Visibility)
Driver vision should be 1.0 x 1.0m around
a machine where there is a risk from
inadequate driver vision i.e. the driver
should be able to see points that are
one metre from the vehicle and one
metre above ground level.

18. Camera

20. WHEN REVERSING
 Ensure alarms/warning lights and C.C.T.V.
camera are in working order.
 Mirrors should be in place and adjusted
correctly, to give the best view.
 Make certain, no one is in your path.
 Leave the cab of the vehicle and physically
inspect behind your plant if you are unsure.
 Never reverse without assistance if your rear
view is in any way restricted.

21. Vehicle/pedestrian interface

22. What can go wrong
• Vehicle/pedestrian collision
• Vehicle/vehicle collision
• Equipment failure – hose bursts
• Fall from Height
• Skip dislodged during lifting operation

23. What HSENI will look for!
1. Risk assessment for overall
operation.
2. Physical control measures to
separate personnel and other
vehicles from the activity (where
possible)
3. Equipment being used.

24. Additional precautions
• Skip modifications
• Camera and screen capable of
viewing lifting hook when
engaging
• Hose check valves on lifting
equipment
• Thorough inspection certificates
for the lifting equipment.

25. Legislation
Provision and Use of Work Equipment
Regulations
Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment
Regulations
Work at Height
Management of health and safety at
work Regulations.

26. HSENI course of action
• High hazard activity
• Lack of control may lead to fatality or
major injury
• Enforcement notice will be immediate

27. Basic Guidance (Visibility)
Driver vision should be 1.0 x 1.0m around
a machine where there is a risk from
inadequate driver vision i.e. the driver
should be able to see points that are
one metre from the vehicle and one
metre above ground level.

28. WHEN REVERSING
 Ensure alarms/warning lights and C.C.T.V.
camera are in working order.
 Mirrors should be in place and adjusted
correctly, to give the best view.
 Make certain, no one is in your path.
 Leave the cab of the vehicle and physically
inspect behind your plant if you are unsure.
 Never reverse without assistance if your rear
view is in any way restricted.

29. Other lost time injuries
• Back injuries
• Slips, trips and falls
• Falls from heights
• Maintenance activity

30. Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs)
Musculoskeletal disorders
are the biggest causes of
occupational ill health in NI
In 2004/2005 the most
common type of work-
related illness reported was
back problems

31. Where can you get help?
• HSE publishes:
• guidance on the law
• assessment guidelines,
• e.g. MAC tool
• general handling aids
• guidance
• industry specific

32. • Defined in the Manual Handling
Operations Regulations (Northern
Ireland) 1992
• ..…any transporting or supporting of
a load (including the lifting, putting
down, pushing, pulling, carrying or
moving thereof) by hand or by bodily
force
What is “Manual Handling”?

33. Safe Maintenance
Saves Time, Saves
Money, Saves Lives

35. 2010 - 2011
Half of fatalities in all HSENI
enforced sectors maintenance
related

36. Why is it hazardous?
1. Involves dangerous activities
• Work at height
• Work with electricity
• Work with dangerous equipment
• Work with dangerous materials

37. Why is it hazardous?
2. Often carried out ad hoc basis without
proper risk assessment
3. Often undertaken by contractors
4. Easy to overlook - Things go wrong without
proper maintenance

38. What does maintenance
include?
• Inspection and testing
• Repairs and adjustment
• Fault detection & parts replacement
• Servicing, lubrication and cleaning
• Repair and renovation of buildings

39. Key Points
• Maintenance affects every workplace
• Affects everyone in an organisation
• Moral duty to manage

40. What should companies do?
1. Plan
2. Make area safe
3. Use appropriate equipment
4. Work as planned
5. Final check

42. Audrey Haggan
Head of Health and Safety
Works NI

43. Health and Safety Works NI
is the
small business advisory service of
HSENI

44. Health and Safety Works NI
is
a free and confidential service
offering practical advice and guidance
from a trusted and reliable source to
all small businesses across NI

45. What types of business do we
help?
• Any business with ≤50 employees
• Micro and emerging businesses
• Higher risk industries
• Social economy

46. Three levels of service
• Information
• Advice and
guidance
• Support –visit to
premises

47. Start up
pack

48. Construction pack

49. Templates and examples
• Health and safety policy
• Risk assessment
• Fire risk assessment
• Fire checklists
• Method statements
• Scaffolding/excavations inspections

51. Workshops
• Managing fire
safety
• 6 construction
workshops
• Maintenance in
waste and
recycling industry

52. HSWNI offers support
• 1 to 1 visit to the business
• Identifying and prioritising health and
safety issues specific to the business
• An action plan tailored to the client’s
business needs

53. also includes
• Meeting their needs
• Paperwork
• Tour of the premises
• Priority topics
• New or changes to legislation

54. • Photo of Janet at Jethro Centre

55. Customer feedback
“Thank you for your visit to our site and
the excellent advice you gave.
The service you offer through H&S
Works NI, is of great benefit to those
unaware of the raft of legislation
regarding H&S.”

56. Health and Safety Works NI
• Any small business (50 employees or
less)
• Business must approach HSWNI
• Provides
 Information
 Advice and
 Support with a 1 to 1 visit