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Unit NGC1Unit NGC1

Management of Management of

health and safetyhealth and safety


Element 4Element 4

Health and safety Health and safety

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4.1 Explain the importance of planning in the context of

health and safety management systems

4.2 Explain the principles and practice of risk assessment

4.3 Explain the general principles of control and a basic

hierarchy of risk reduction measures

4.4 Identify the key sources of health and safety

information

4.5 Explain what factors should be considered when

developing and implementing a safe system of work

for general activities

4.6 Explain the role and function of a permit-to-work

system

Planning

Learning outcomes


Contents

4.1 Importance of planning

4.2 Principles and practice of risk assessment

4.3 General principles of control and risk reduction measures

4.4 Sources of health and safety information

4.5 Developing and implementing a safe system of work

4.6 Role and function of a permit to work system

Planning

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Contents







Planning


System to establish, implement and maintain

requirements

HSG65 - Successful health and safety management

Importance of planning

• Planning is part of one of the main elements of successful health and safety management

• Part of the overall health and safety management system of an organisation

• Successful organisations adopt a planned and systematic approach to policy implementation

• Their aim is to minimise the risks created by work activities, products and services

• They use hazard identification and risk assessment methods

Planning



requirements

HSG65 - Successful health and safety management


• The planning process includes the identification of legal requirements

• Is used to establish a planned programme for health and safety implementation that includes the setting of health and safety objectives

Planning



requirements

Planning as part of a system


Source: HSG65.

Planning


Setting health and safety objectives


• Setting objectives provides:

- A target to aim for

- Participants with a sense of direction

- Motivation, through structured progress and successful achievement in meeting them

• Objectives must be set for the organisation as a whole, each function and level

• The objectives that relate to the whole organisation should be set by the top management team

• It is important that objectives set for the whole organisation, functions and levels are documented

Planning




• Legal and organisational commitments should be stated in the health and safety policy and translated into organisation-wide, functional and level based objectives

• The objectives should also express the actions required that will lead to the reduction in accidents

• Objectives should also include consideration of technological options

• Good objectives will also reflect the organisation’s financial, operational and business requirements and take into account the views of interest parties

Planning






S pecific A specific objective has a much greater chance of being accomplished than a general goal. To set a specific objective it is necessary to determine:� Who: is involved.� What: is to be accomplished.� Where: identify the location.� When: a time frame should be established.� Which: identify requirements and any constraints.� Why: specific reasons, purpose or benefits of accomplishing the goal.

M easurable Establish a reliable system to measure progress towards the achievement of the objective. Avoid using words like “understand” as an objective since understanding can be very difficult to measure.

A chievable Many objectives are realistic. However, the time it takes to achieve them may be unrealistic. For example, it is realistic for a person to want to lose ten pounds in weight. However, it is unrealistic to want to lose ten pounds in one week. Any barriers to the success of the objective should be identified. Each barrier identified can then be analysed to determine how it may be overcome and within what time frame.

R elevant Availability of resources will determine how realistically an objective can be achieved within a particular time frame.

T imely For short term or project related objectives to be effective a defined time frame for completion should be set.For requirements where work is ongoing, support objectives to achieve the level of performance may be necessary, such as with food processing, where the objective (ongoing) may be the periodic checking that the food is within a specified temperature range, or the level of staff hygiene is appropriate for associated workers.

Planning

Source: RMS.


Identifying and keeping up to date with legal

requirements


• The organisation should have made a commitment to compliance with legislation in the health and safety policy statement

• Legislation states the minimum standards that must be achieved by employers and employees alike

• Legislative requirements are taken into account when risks are assessed and systems of work are established

• Organisations should put systems into place that ensure they have identified legal requirements that affect them and are kept up to date with changes

Planning


Identifying and keeping up to date with legal

requirements


• In the last few years new standards have been introduced through regulations such as the:

- Control of Noise at Work Regulations (CNWR) 2005

- Work at Height Regulations (WAH) 2005

- Health and Safety (Offences) Act (HSO) 2008

- Control of Artificial Optical Radiation at Work Regulations (CAOR) 2010

• Legal requirements should be evaluated for their applicability

Planning


Contents







Planning


Legal requirements

Principles and practice of risk assessment

• Regulation 3 of MHSWR 1999 requires employers to assess the risk to the health and safety of their employees and to anyone else who may be affected by their work activity

• The duty under Regulation 3 of MHSWR 1999 is a general duty, as it relates to risk assessments for all risks

• Other legislation sets out legal requirements for risk assessment for specific risks

• Where five or more employees are employed, the significant findings of risk assessments must be recorded in writing

Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations (MHSWR) 1999

Planning


Legal requirements


• Substances harmful to health, including biological substances -

Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (COSHH) 2002

• Manual handling - Manual Handling Operations Regulations

(MHOR) 1992

• Display screen equipment - Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations (DSE) 1992

• Fire - Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order (RRFSO) 2005

• Noise - Control of Noise at Work Regulations (CNWR) 2005

• Vibration - Control of Vibration at Work Regulations (CVWR) 2005

• Ultraviolet, visible light, and infrared radiation - Control of Artificial

Optical Radiation at Work Regulations (CAOR) 2010

Other legislation

Planning




Meaning of hazard and risk and risk assessment

“Something that has the potential to cause harm (loss)”

“The potential to cause harm, including ill-health and injury, damage to property, plant, products or the environment, production losses or increased

liabilities”

Hazard


Source: Successful Health and Safety Management, HSG65, HSE.

Planning


“The likelihood of potential harm from a hazard being realised”

“The likelihood that a specified undesired event will occur due to the realisation of a hazard by, or during, work activities or by the products and

services created by work activities”

Risk



Source: Successful Health and Safety Management, HSG65, HSE.

Planning



Risk assessment


“To evaluate the risk(s) arising from the hazard(s), identifying preventive and protective measures, taking into account the adequacy of any existing controls, and

deciding whether or not the risk is acceptable”

Planning


Objectives of risk assessment; prevention of

workplace accidents


Planning

Risk assessment involves:

1) The identification of hazards

2) Identification of the population at risk

3) The evaluation of the risks from the hazards

4) Recording significant findings and the implementation of them

5) Reviewing the risk assessment and updating it if necessary


Distinction between different types of incident

• The health and well-being of individuals may be affected by a number of work-related factors

• Ill-health may develop over a long period of time:

- These are commonly called chronic diseases

• Typical examples of work-related ill-health are:

- Asbestosis, pneumoconiosis and silicosis

• Where the ill-heath effects may take several years to develop

• More recently, ill-health effects have been related to work load and stress


Ill-health

Planning



• Some injury effects will be acute in nature

• Such as:

- Strains or sprains of muscles or ligaments caused by inappropriate lifting of heavy items

• Other common injuries include:

- Cuts

- Burns

- Bruises


Injury accident

Planning





• RIDDOR 1995 lists incidents that must be formally reported to the

relevant enforcement agency

• Significant events (the collapse of, the overturning of, or the failure

of):

- Load-bearing part of any lift or hoist

- Mobile powered access platform

- Access cradle or window-cleaning cradle

- Excavator

- Pile-driving frame or rig (overall height of more than 7 metres)

- Fork lift truck

- A scaffold of more than five metres high


Dangerous occurrence

Planning


“An unplanned, uncontrolled event which led to, or could have led to loss”

Near-miss

Distinction between different types of incidentPrinciples and practice of risk assessment

Planning


Near Miss Equipment damage Minor Injury Death

Source: RMS.



Damage-only

Planning


• A study led by Frank Bird

• Showed that there is a fixed ratio between losses of different severity and accidents where no loss occurred, i.e. near misses

• 1,750,000 accidents in 21 industries

• This is illustrated in the pyramid model of incident outcomes -Frank Bird’s accident ratio study



Ratios of incident outcomes

Planning


10

30

600

Source: Frank Bird.



Accident ratio study

Planning


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