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Health and Safety Executive
Health and Safety Executive
Dealing with Construction Health Risks – A Regulators Role
Clare Forshaw
Construction Sector - Health Risk Management Unit
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What’s the problem ?
• Workplace ill health kills and ruins lives in the construction industry. Statistics indicate that a construction worker is at least 100 times more likely to die from disease caused or made worse by their work as they are from a fatal accident.
From CONIAC Health Risks Working Group Position paper on health
risks in construction ( NOV 2011)
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What’s the problem ?
Number of construction safety related fatalities 2012 / 2013 :
39
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What’s the problem
Estimated number of construction asbestos
related fatalities each year:
>2500
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The scale of the problem
Estimated number of construction silica
related fatalities each year:
500
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The scale of the problem
Number of construction painter and decorator trade related cancer deaths in 2005
254
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The scale of the problem
Number of construction related cancer deaths from exposure to diesel engine exhaust emissions in 2005
234
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The scale of the problem
Number of construction days lost due to safety related issues 2011 / 2012: 0.6 million
Number of construction days lost due to health related issues 2011 / 2012: 1.7 million
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The scale of the problem
74000 cases of ill-health in 2011-12
31000 of which are newly reported
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Accident v Ill Health Fatals
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Challenges
• Transient workforce
• Transient worksites
• Often not ‘employed’
• Complicated supply chain
• Variety of health risk exposures
• Continuous and accessible OH provision
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HSE’s Role
• Enforcement
• Engagement• CONIAC & Health Risk Working Group• Dust Partnership• Supply Chain Projects
• Evidence• Health Risk Management Maturity Index• Painter and Decorators• DEEE
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Enforcement: Health Inspection Initiative
• 2 week focus on health interventions in June
• Ongoing focus throughout next few years workplan
• Operational guidance detailing enforcement expectations on leading health risk issues
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Engagement: CONIAC Health Risks WG
• Sub Group of the main CONIAC committee
• Established ‘position paper’ on health risks in construction
• Guidance for Employer on ‘demystifying’ – What is Occupational Health• What you need to do to comply with the law on risk
management• Role of employer – ‘Intelligent Customer’
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Engagement: Construction Dust Partnership
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Construction Dust Partnership
• “To raise awareness within the construction industry about lung diseases related to hazardous workplace dust and to promote good practice to prevent these diseases, particularly for those undertaking high risk tasks”
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Engagement: Paving Road & Highways Supply Chain Project
• Work with representatives from across the construction supply chain
• Address issues of relevance and importance to the sector
• Ensure those who can influencehealth risks understandand are able to carry outtheir role
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PRH Project – Working Groups
• Exposure Monitoring & Health Surveillance
• Risk Matrix
• Level playing field & Procurement
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Evidence
• Cutting roof tile silica exposure
• Hazardous substance exposures
• Woodworking exposures
• Development of a new tool to assessmaturity in managing health risks
• Do we have the right information on current exposures ie painters & decorators, DEEE
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What employers should be doing
• There is a need for ‘ownership’ of the problem
• Education!
• Engagement, Collaboration
• Duty as employer, Duty under CDM Regs
• Supply Chain
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Role of OH professionals
• Education!
• Demystify
• Clarity of services being provided
• Engagement – with dutyholder, workers and other health professionals
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Health v Wellbeing
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Key Health Messages
Who does what?
• ‘Everyone has a role to play’
Assess
• ‘Manage risks not lifestyles’
Control
• ‘Ill-health can be prevented’
Review
• ‘Control the risks not the symptoms’
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Opportunities
• Increased awareness
• Increased engagement
• Success in safety
• Other initiatives e.g. DH Responsibility Deal
• Working together
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Health and Safety Executive
Health and Safety Executive
Thank you for listening
Any questions……