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Health and Safety Executive

HSE Business Plan 2012–15(updated April 2014)

Our mission:The prevention of death, injury and ill health to those at work and those affected by work activities

HSE Business Plan 2012–15 (updated April 2014)

Contents Foreword …1

A. Lead others to improve health and safety in the workplace …4

B. Provide an effective regulatory framework …10

C. Secure compliance with the law …14

D. Reduce the likelihood of low-frequency, high-impact catastrophic incidents …16

E. Manage our resources efficiently and effectively …19


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ForewordWhen we first published this business plan in 2012, we set out what we wanted to achieve over a three year period. Our progress in delivering on those objectives has been impressive and we have a high degree of confidence that those original goals can be reached. But we can also look back at all that has been achieved so far and use that to inform and improve our future work.

As we enter the final year of this current business plan, it is inevitable that we are already turning our attention to the future beyond this cycle. The conclusion of the Triennial Review of HSE was published in January 2014 and some exciting options are starting to emerge for where we go next. Some of these new initiatives are clear, others will take slightly longer to develop and therefore cannot be incorporated into this business plan at this time.

We have therefore chosen to produce a business plan which highlights what we have achieved so far and what remains to be achieved versus the original goals we set over two years ago. Where there are new activities which have been easy to incorporate we have done so but we expect other things to develop during the course of this year which will take us beyond the scope of this current plan. This document very much represents a base plan which will need updating when we have further developed some of the emerging strategic themes for the future.

Some of the highlights of what we have achieved so far include:

■ Changes in the way health and safety is perceived with the Mythbusters Challenge Panel continuing to expose the (excuses) real reasons behind myths

■ The legislative and guidance framework is now simpler, clearer, more accessible and relevant

■ Over eighty percent of health and safety regulations have been improved or removed without reducing worker protection

■ HSE’s Fee for Intervention scheme has been introduced and is having an impact

■ Supporting the Office for Nuclear Regulation to successfully vest as a Public Corporation from 1 April 2014

We are greatly encouraged by affirmative feedback we received from the Triennial Review [TR]. This extensive independent examination of HSE reported in January 2014 that all of HSE’s functions remain necessary and should be retained and that HSE should continue to operate as an executive Non-Departmental Public Body (NDPB). Stakeholders’ views collected by the review gave near-universal praise for the work of HSE.

Some areas where the review has proposed that HSE could innovate further and change to operate more efficiently and effectively include:

■ Funding and income

■ Commercial options

■ Relationships with other regulators

■ Corporate Governance

During 2014/15, implementation of the TR recommendations will be a key priority. Continuing to be an effective regulator will remain at the heart of what HSE does, but a new focus will see us exploiting the many commercial opportunities that our world-class reputation offers.


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This base plan will form the foundations for our Business Plan for 2015-18 but we will review this document itself later in the year to ensure it includes our programme of work on commercialisation and the potential strategic changes this may bring.

While maintaining our overall strategic direction and playing our part in improving Great Britain’s health and safety performance we will continue to improve and modernise our approach to ensure we continue to succeed in meeting the challenges we face – HSE is a world class regulator and our overriding aim is that we continue to be so.

Judith Hackitt CBE Kevin Myers Chair Acting Chief Executive

March 2014


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Figure 1 HSE’s Mission, Aims and Objectives

Figure 1 outlines the aims and objectives HSE is seeking to achieve through delivery of its core activities.

Our mission: The prevention of death, injury and ill health to those at work and those affected by work activities

Our aims: A. Lead others to improve health and

safety in the workplace

B. Provide an effective regulatory

framework

C. Secure compliance with

the law

D. Reduce the likelihood of low frequency, high-

impact catastrophic incidents

Our key objectives:

A.1 Use evidence and knowledge to prioritise our own actions and guide

the actions of others

B.1 Simplify and consolidate domestic

health and safety regulations to make

the law easier to understand

C.1 Investigate work related accidents, incidents and ill

health

D.1 Regulate major hazard operators and dutyholders effectively and proportionately

A.2 Target and conduct inspections

of sectors and activities which give

rise to the most serious risks

B.2 Negotiate and secure the best

possible outcome in Europe for the UK

C.2 Take formal enforcement action to prevent harm and secure justice where

appropriate

D.2 Provide authoritative advice

in relation to hazardous

substances and land use planning

A.3 Provide guidance and

support to enable informed workplace

health and safety decisions

B.3 Act as Competent Authority

for biocides, pesticides,

detergents and industrial chemicals

A.4 Work in partnership to raise

awareness and create behavioural

change

A.5 Demonstrate the benefits of

proportionate health and safety

Our enablers: E. Manage our resources efficiently and effectively

E.1 People E.2 Estates E.3 IS/IT E.4 Knowledge E.5 Finance


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A. Lead others to improve health and safety in the workplaceWhere improvements in health and safety are necessary and where HSE can make a distinctive contribution, we will work closely with individual companies, industry bodies, stakeholder groups and others to assist in driving forward sector-led improvements to raise awareness of, create behavioural change and ultimately improve health and safety in the workplace.

A.1 Use evidence and knowledge to prioritise our own actions and guide the actions of others

■ Maintain a fit-for-purpose and robust evidence base on workplace injuries, work-related ill health, and the causes and consequences of health and safety failings, publishing a suite of health and safety statistics annually in the autumn

■ Commission and deliver research and evidence to enhance our knowledge to support identification and delivery of HSE’s current and future priorities (see Figure 2) including research on1:

▬ Asbestos – report on prediction of Mesothelioma risks associated with current asbestos exposures by June 2014; and assess and take forward research findings and develop appropriate intervention strategies by March 2015

▬ Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) – a large scale epidemiological study to establish the principal causes of COPD – estimate of current burden and initial assessment of causes of work related COPD by March 2013; with final assessment by December 2015

▬ Waste and Recycling - report on occupational exposures, ill health and effective control procedures to manage risks by December 2015

▬ Ageing Onshore Infrastructure – safety issues related to the working life extension of plant and equipment at onshore major hazard sites including: – Initial reports by March 2013 – Sector performance in managing

ageing plant by March 2014 – The impact of HSE interventions and

stakeholders’ work on sector performance by March 2014 and

– A strategy to tackle future ageing plant issues that need to be addressed to be developed by March 2015

■ Review and publish updated sector strategies by October 2014

Figure 2 Research reports published by topic2

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Indicates that the milestone has been delivered. Further details are available in HSE’s Annual Report and Accounts at http://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/reports/index.htm

1 HSE’s Summary Science Plan 2012-15 can be found at http://www.hse.gov.uk/research/policy.htm

2 Data in Figures 2-37 is based on latest information and is therefore subject to change. (p) indicates provisional data at time of publication


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A.2 Target and conduct inspections of those sectors and activities which give rise to the most serious risks or where risks are least well controlled

■ Ensure a more consistent and proportionate approach to inspection and enforcement activity by local authorities by:

▬ Developing a binding and enforceable code of practice for local authorities which will be consulted on in September 2012, and launched in April 2013

▬ Working with the Better Regulation Delivery Organisation (BRDO) to assist the development of the Primary Authority Scheme

▬ Undertake a review of the Code by the end of 2014 [TR]

▬ Continue to monitor local authorities implementation of the Code. Where outliers are identified they will be brought to the attention of Local Authority political members [TR]

■ Inspect where robust evidence and intelligence indicate health and safety performance is of serious concern and where inspection is the most effective intervention to secure compliance (see Figures 3 and 4), including:

▬ Issuing licences and undertaking 1,200 inspections per annum to asbestos licensed contractors and removal operators to provide assurance of the competence of those participating in those activities

▬ Working with local authority partners to promote sustained compliance by dutyholders in controlling the risks associated with legionella in water systems and undertaking a programme of inspections to cooling towers/evaporative condensers at circa 2,500 HSE enforced sites by March 2015

▬ Undertaking inspections to 150 non-local authority controlled schools, targeting asbestos management by March 2014

▬ Undertaking up to 9 targeted and coordinated inspections in response to intelligence received from other regulators/agencies about health and safety risks to migrant workers by March 2015

Figure 3 Total number of proactive inspections delivered by HSE

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Figure 4 Inspections by sector (2013/2014)

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A.3 Provide guidance and support to enable informed workplace health and safety decisions

■ Provide concise and straightforward guidance ensuring it is proportionate, fit for purpose and, where possible, provide expertise to enable others to develop, produce and disseminate their own guidance (see Figures 5 and 6). Examples include:

▬ Updating the HSE website in 2012 to distinguish between regulations which impose specific duties and those that define administrative requirements

▬ Further revising the website to ensure the public can understand and differentiate between specific duties and administrative requirements by August 2013

▬ Providing guidance to help businesses understand what is ‘reasonably practicable’ for specific activities in September 2012, with ongoing arrangements to ensure guidance is kept up to date

▬ Completing the review of external guidance (excluding Approved Codes of Practice (ACOPs)) by March 2014, with ongoing arrangements to ensure guidance is kept up to date

▬ With our partners, developing and releasing risk assessments for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by March 2013

■ Deliver and participate in awareness raising events on key health and safety issues seeking opportunities for cost sharing, focusing on higher risk industries including stone, agriculture, molten metals, welding and construction (see Figure 7)

Figure 6 Number of visits to HSE website in millions

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Figure 7 Safety Health and Awareness Days and Other Events by Sector

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Figure 5 Number of publications (inc ACOPs) reviewed

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A.4 Work in partnership to raise awareness and create behavioural change

■ Assess our partnership and joint working arrangements, supporting those that are succeeding to become self-sustaining groups, and reducing or ultimately ceasing our involvement with less successful initiatives and those which have run their course including:

▬ Replacing the Printing Industry Advisory Committee with an industry-led printing health and safety committee by March 2013

▬ Establishing an industry-led logistics sector forum by March 2013

▬ Establishing an industry-led group in the chemical manufacturing sector to develop approaches to tackle high rates of occupational diseases with: – An approach agreed by March 2013 – A draft report into incidents, prevalence

and relative risks of ill health due to chemical exposure published by August 2013

– An analysis of root causes of occupational disease completed by March 2014

– Final industry guidance produced by March 2015

▬ Supporting the Waste Industry Safety and Health Forum to improve its effectiveness by holding a summit with key stakeholders, including major waste and recycling companies in March 2013

▬ Delivering a high level industry summit to enhance safety in the docks industry by April 2014

■ Deliver a further nine roll-outs of Estates Excellence3 in 2013/14, and a further nine in 2014/15, with the aim that the programme will reach 4,500 SMEs by the end of 2014/15

■ Monitor the delivery of the Gas Safe Register, and Gas Safe Advice Line and work with them to raise awareness of gas safety and carbon monoxide risks

■ Implement asbestos awareness and behaviour change campaign including:

▬ Finalising plans for activity around asbestos awareness and audience behaviour change by September 2014

▬ Evaluating its success by end of 2015

3 http://www.hse.gov.uk/estatesexcellence/index.htm3 http://www.hse.gov.uk/estatesexcellence/index.htm

http://www.hse.gov.uk/estatesexcellence/index.htm


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■ Continue to promote the key roles that leadership and worker involvement play in improving health and safety performance including:

▬ Delivering 20 events within the construction industry to promote the use of the Leadership and Worker Involvement toolkit4 by March 2015

▬ Monitoring implementation of the actions agreed by the offshore industry partnership Step Change in Safety5 as set out within the UK Oil and Gas Industrial Strategy: Business and Government Action Plan6 including: – ensuring there is strong and

sustainable leadership within the industry which demonstrates accountability for delivery of improved health and safety performance

– monitoring adoption of the Step Change Workforce Engagement toolkit7

■ Take forward any HSE-led actions arising from the Occupational Disease stakeholder conference held in March 2013, including:

▬ Further developing our insight and evidence about those bodies and organisations with whom we do not currently engage but who could be active and influential in tackling occupational disease

▬ Building on our current information and advice portfolio to develop a framework which provides businesses and all those with an interest with a package of tools and information that steers and directs them to design and deliver their own interventions to tackle occupational disease

▬ Developing a more co-ordinated approach to deliver and present HSE’s work on occupational disease, drawing together activities undertaken through HSE’s Sector Strategies and inspection/enforcement programmes to underpin HSE’s role as a ‘catalyst for action’

4 http://www.hse.gov.uk/Construction/lwit/index.htm

5 Step Change in Safety is the UK-based partnership with the remit to make the UK the safest oil and gas exploration and production province in the world. It is charged with achieving this vision through cooperation, collaboration, sharing and adoption of best practice and learning

6 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-oil-and-gas-industrial-strategy-business-and-government-action-plan

7 http://www.stepchangeinsafety.net/about/workgroups/WorkforceEngagementToolkit.cfm

http://www.stepchangeinsafety.net/about/workgroups/WorkforceEngagementToolkit.cfm


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▬ Engaging more proactively with other public bodies involved with the Health and Well-being agenda so that, where appropriate, there is a clear demarcation between those factors that are clearly public health-related and those where there is an occupational element. Where the latter is the case, we should ensure that it is clear in any guidance and communication activities that there is a requirement for risk management

▬ Continuing our successful partnership working approach with those industries where we have most concern and where we have a proven working partnership

▬ Undertaking a strategic review on how HSE accesses external expert advice on the prevention of occupational diseases

■ Review interfaces with other regulators and where appropriate update Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) ensuring they reflect best practice and clear accountability by the end of 2015 [TR]. This will include:

▬ Revised MOU with the Office of the Rail Regulator published by December 2014 [TR]

▬ Amended Liasion Agreement between HSE and Care Quality Commission (CQC) in place to align with the revised CQC registration requirements due to come into force from October 2014 (subject to Parliamentary approval) [TR]

▬ Revised MOU with the Gangmasters’ Licensing Authority published by July 2014 [TR]

A.5 Demonstrate the benefits of proportionate health and safety

■ Run the Independent Regulatory Challenge Panel enabling businesses to challenge specific health and safety regulatory advice they believe to be unreasonable8

■ Launch and chair the Mythbusters Panel in April 2012 for those who wish to challenge claims made about health and safety requirements by non-regulators, reporting findings on HSE’s website9

■ Discourage unnecessary risk-averse behaviour, seeking to remove the perception that health and safety prevents efficient and effective working practices

■ Liaise with national and regional media to focus on the core aims of health and safety, rebutting and correcting trivial or ill-informed criticism (see Figure 8)

8 http://www.hse.gov.uk/contact/challenge-panel.htm

9 http://www.hse.gov.uk/contact/myth-busting.htm

Figure 8 Press releases issued

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B. Provide an effective regulatory frameworkHSE will take forward the recommendations arising from the independent review Reclaiming health and safety for all: An independent review of health and safety legislation (November 2011). This will be a significant piece of work which will help to simplify and streamline the regulatory framework, make the legislation easier to understand with the consequence that compliance levels should increase. We will also continue to negotiate and secure the best possible outcome for the UK within Europe minimising burdens on business whilst maintaining necessary protection for workers.

B.1 Simplify and consolidate domestic health and safety regulations to make the law easier to understand

■ Amend, clarify and where appropriate revoke unnecessary existing health and safety legislation and consolidate health and safety regulations in specific sectors [TR](see Figure 9) by:

▬ Revoking a first batch of legislative measures by October 2012 and a further batch by the end of April 2013 subject to the appropriate approvals

▬ Completing a consultation on RIDDOR by November 2012, amending it and associated guidance to provide clarity for businesses on how to comply with the requirements by October 2013

▬ Consolidating sectoral regulations (mining, genetically modified organisms (GMO), petroleum, biocides and explosives) by December 2014

▬ Reviewing the arrangements for Adventure Activities Licensing

▬ Amending (subject to parliamentary approval) the Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981 to remove the requirement for HSE to approve first aid training and qualifications by October 2013

▬ Completing a consultation on Construction Design and Management (CDM) regulations by September 2014 and revising CDM 2007 and associated guidance by April 2015

▬ Undertaking consultation and introducing the new COMAH regulations by June 2015

▬ Reviewing onshore and offshore health and safety regulatory frameworks to consider whether they adequately cover emerging energy technologies related to hydrocarbon gas storage and underground coal gasification by July 2015

Figure 9 Number of health and safety regulations on the statute books

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10 excluding those ACOPs associated with regulations within scope of the Löfstedt recommendation for sector specific consolidation or any other regulations to be otherwise amended – ACOPs relating to mines, petroleum, explosives and offshore oil and gas will be reviewed in parallel with the review of sectoral regulations by December 2014

■ Review HSE’s Approved Codes of Practice10 (ACOPs) to ensure they remain relevant, provide clarity on what the law requires and are suitably presented by:

▬ Completing an initial review and launching a consultation on proposals for the revision, consolidation, withdrawal or otherwise for 32 ACOPs in June 2012

▬ Consulting on revised ACOPs during May, June and July 2013

▬ Publishing revised ACOPs, HSE will have published six revised ACOPs, removed six by consolidation and withdrawn three by the end of 2013, and reviewed a further 14 ACOPs by the December 2014

■ Exempt from health and safety law those self-employed, whose activities represent no potential risk of harm to others by consulting on the self employed exemption in July 2012

■ Amend the Health and Safety at Work Act along with any necessary Regulations by December 2013. Bring into effect consequential amendments to legislation and guidance by April 2015

■ Replace and update the Health and Safety at Work etc Act (Application outside Great Britain) Order 2001 and the 2011 variation order, which apply the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 outside GB to named work activities in specified areas by April 2013

■ Participate, as appropriate, in the Government’s Focus on Enforcement reviews, including:

▬ improving arrangements for regulating the onshore major hazards sector, agreeing a joint industry/Competent Authority action plan with industry by May 2013

▬ developing a framework to enable businesses to challenge the consistency of regulators’ decisions and, where necessary, seek a second opinion, agreed with industry by March 2014; field testing and launching by October 2014

▬ demonstrating a clear link between good company performance and reduced inspection burdens by October 2014

▬ streamlining safety report assessment and reduce associated costs by March 2015

▬ assisting businesses to transition into the COMAH regime by April 2015

▬ reducing inspection burdens by joining up the work of the Competent Authority Regulators October 2015 [TR]


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B.2 Negotiate and secure the best possible outcome in Europe for the UK

■ Contribute to the EC’s review of EU health and safety law by providing the UK’s report on the practical implementation of EU law to the Commission by December 2013 (see Figure 10)

■ Represent the UK Government’s interests in EU institutions, including the Advisory Committee for Safety and Health at Work and the Governing Board of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work

■ Contribute to the UK Government’s Review of the Balance of Competences, by providing input on HSE-led areas during 2014 and contribute evidence to other lead bodies throughout 2013 and 2014 in accordance with the Government’s published timeframes

■ Participate in EU Competent Authority business in relation to biocides, pesticides, detergents and industrial chemicals

■ Contribute to and support the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) 2014/15 campaign on Occupational Stress

■ Lead the negotiations on a number of Directives and EU Regulations, transpose Directives into UK law and give legal effect to EU Regulations, without gold plating or enhancing requirements (see Figures 11 and 12) including:

▬ Transposing the 2012 Directive amending the 2008 Directive on Identification and Traceability of Explosives by April 2013

▬ Transposing the 2010 Directive on Implementing the Agreement on Sharps Injuries in the Hospital and Healthcare sector by May 2013

▬ Transposing and implementing Article 30 of Seveso III (heavy fuel oil) by February 2014

▬ With DECC, completing the initial UK negotiations on the proposal for a European Offshore Oil and Gas Regulation in line with the requirements of the Directive and implement by July 2015

▬ Submitting a Transposition Project Plan to the Reducing Regulation Committee within 2 weeks of publication of the Seveso III Directive and transposing the Directive into law by May 2015

▬ Completing the negotiations on EU Biocides Regulation and the recast Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Regulation by July 2012

Figure 10 Directives to be reviewed as part of EC review of health and safety law

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HSE led Department for Transport (MCA*) led Shared lead with BIS** and DfE***

* Maritime Coastal Agency** Department for Business, Innovation and Skills*** Department for Education

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▬ Completing on behalf of the UK, negotiations on the amended Electromagnetic Fields Directive by October 2013; consulting on proposed Electromagnetic Fields Directive transposition approach by March 2015 and transposing by July 2016

▬ Consulting on amendments required to the existing Basic Safety Standards for Radiological Protection Directive in autumn 2016 transpose by February 2018

▬ Completing implementation of the direct acting EU Classification, Labelling and Packaging Regulation 2008 including transposition of amending Directive 2014/27/EY by April 2015

▬ With Defra, implementing the EU Ship Recycling Regulations by April 2015

▬ Taking forward the recommendations arising from the Ministerial review of the Health and Safety Executive’s Approach to Negotiating and Implementing European Union Legislation in accordance with the agreed timescales [TR]

B.3 Act as Competent Authority for biocides, pesticides, detergents and industrial chemicals11

■ Evaluate new and existing active substances for biocides and pesticides (see Figure 13)

■ Evaluate industrial chemical substances

■ Consider applications for product authorisation (see Figure 13)

■ Process all Prior Informed Consent12 notifications within the relevant timescales (see Figure 14)

11 In addition to its contribution to occupational health and safety, HSE delivers operational policy and operation of regulatory schemes for pesticides, biocides and general chemicals regulations, much of which is led by Defra which includes consideration of the health of workers, consumers, the general public and the effects on the environment

12 The Prior Informed Consent procedure allows countries that are importing certain dangerous chemicals to specify conditions that the imported chemicals must meet

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C. Secure compliance with the lawInvestigating health and safety concerns and incidents is an important lever for improving health and safety standards. It enables HSE to determine causes, share lessons and ensure that necessary measures are in place to prevent recurrence. Investigation also provides the basis for enforcement action to secure justice for people seriously harmed by those who behave in a reckless way or where there has been a serious breach of duty.

C.1 Investigate work related accidents, incidents and ill health

■ Follow-up health and safety concerns meeting HSE’s risk-based criteria within agreed timescales (see Figure 15)

■ Investigate incidents that meet HSE’s incident selection criteria (see Figure 16)

■ Aim to complete 95% of fatal incident investigations within 12 months of HSE assuming primacy (see Figure 17)

■ Aim to complete 95% of non-fatal investigations within 12 months of the accident (see Figure 18)

■ Review the time taken to complete investigations to identify where improvements in performance might be made, and identify suitable targets to support this [TR]

Figure 17 RIDDOR fatal investigations completed within 12 months of HSE having primacy

HSE has been recording primacy date from 2012/13 and can therefore only monitor performance from 2013/14 onwards

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C.2 Take formal enforcement action to prevent harm and secure justice where appropriate

■ When appropriate, take enforcement action in line with HSE’s Enforcement Policy Statement and Enforcement Management Model (see Figure 19)

■ Prosecute where there has been a serious breach of the law (see Figures 20 and 21)

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13 In Scotland, HSE and local authorities investigate potential offences but cannot institute legal proceedings. HSE and local authorities send a report to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS). COPFS makes the final decision whether to instigate legal proceedings and which offences are taken

In figures 19-21 data up to and including 2012/13 sourced from official Health and Safety Statistics – see http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/tables/index.htm#enforcement

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Figure 20 Prosecution cases for health and safety offences, instituted by HSE, and in Scotland, the COPFS13

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14 Includes Control of Major Accident Hazard (COMAH) sites, offshore installations, major accident hazard pipeline operators, gas distribution networks, explosive manufacturing and storage sites, mines, and biological agent facilities

15 Sub-COMAH sites are defined as sites falling below COMAH thresholds quantities with inventories of dangerous substances and where the worst foreseeable event would be comparable to that at a COMAH site

16 Further detail of the programme can be found at: http://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/ageing/kp4-programme.htm

D. Reduce the likelihood of low-frequency, high-impact catastrophic incidentsGreat Britain has a number of highly specialised industries which provide essential products and services and are strategically important to the country’s economy and social infrastructure, but which can potentially cause serious harm to their workers, the environment and the public if not properly managed.

A relatively small failure of their health and safety regimes could have catastrophic consequences (hence these industries are often referred to as major hazard industries). HSE’s programme of work will seek to secure the systematic management of hazardous activities, and provide public assurance that health and safety risks within those industries are effectively managed to reduce the likelihood of low frequency, high impact incidents.

D.1 Regulate major hazard operators and dutyholders effectively and proportionately

■ Assess dutyholder submissions (safety cases and safety reports) against agreed standards to ensure the new or continued safe operation of major hazard installations (see Figure 22)

■ Grant and authorise applications, derogations, licences, approvals and notifications including explosives classifications, explosive site licences, Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) notifications, Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) notifications of the use of biological agents in accordance with statutory requirements and deadlines (see Figure 23)

■ Deliver agreed intervention plans and inspections at major hazard sites14 (see Figures 24 and 25)

■ Inspect sub COMAH sites15 which present a significant risk because of the dangerous substances that they handle

■ Undertake the Offshore Ageing and Life Extension Programme (KP4)16 to ensure dutyholders can demonstrate that suitable measures are in place to address ageing and life extension in their asset integrity management systems to ensure associated risks are controlled and safety is ensured at all times, including:

▬ An interim report in January 2013 ▬ Completion of a programme of KP4 inspections by February 2014

Figure 22 Number of Safety Cases/Reports assessed


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Page 1717 The report can be located at:

http://www.decc.gov.uk/assets/decc/11/meeting-energy-demand/oil-gas/3875-offshore-oil-gas-uk-ind-rev.pdf

▬ First industry technical guidance documents produced by Oil and Gas UK with HSE support by September 2013

▬ Final report published in May 2014

■ Complete assessments to allow clearance of Generic Design Assessment (GDA) issues, including any associated within the report findings on the Fukushima nuclear accident, and be in a position to consider issuing final Design Acceptance confirmations

■ Begin Generic Design Assessment of the Hitachi-GE Advanced Boiling Water Reactor design in September 2013

■ Work with DECC to ensure that the recommendations arising from Offshore Oil and Gas in the UK – An Independent Review of the Regulatory Regime17, published in December 2011 are progressed including providing input into DECC’s response to the Energy Minister by July 2012

■ In response to Lord Gill’s ICL Inquiry Report, ensure that metallic LPG pipe work giving rise to the most significant risks is replaced or managed to ensure that it is fit for purpose by December 2015

COMAH Offshore Installations Nuclear Installations Other*

Figure 24 Number of Major Hazard sites visited by HSE

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545

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* For 2014/15 other includes 22 producing mines, 30 non COMAH explosives sites, 120 sub and non COMAH chemical manufacturing sites, 16 major gas networks, 63 onshore and off shore pipeline operators, and 81 biological agent sites. From 2014/15 excludes Nuclear Installations

* Other - A very small proportion of sub and non COMAH chemical manufacturing sites are visited and as such have been excluded from Figure 25

Figure 25 Proportion of Major Hazard sites to be visited in 2014/15

COMAH

Offshore Installations

Other*

68%

66%44%

38%

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18 Basic advice cases are dealt with by the Land Use Planning National Support Centre; medium cases require further advice to be provided; and complex cases also require risk assessments to be undertaken

D.2 Provide authoritative advice in relation to hazardous substance consents and land use planning

■ Provide advice on complex planning applications within the non-determination periods in line with Government’s expectations for responding to applications (see Figure 26)

■ Process ‘hazardous substance consents’ applications within agreed timescales in line with Government’s expectations for responding to applications (see Figure 27)

Figure 26 Number of planning enquiries HSE expects to advise on by complexity18

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Figure 27 Number of Hazardous Substance Consents Applications processed

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Figure 29 Total Staff (Full Time Equivalents)

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Figure 28 Current Skill Mix

E. Manage our resources efficiently and effectivelyHSE will seek to ensure delivery of our objectives is achieved through a sustainable use of resources that optimises value for money. We will seek out ways to improve the way we do business so that we are clearly seen to be achieving the best possible value for the taxpayer. Our staff will have the necessary skills, capabilities and knowledge to deliver our ambitious programme of work.

E.1 Have the right people, in the right place, at the right time, possessing the right skills, knowledge and behaviours and performing the right roles

Figure 28 shows current staffing mix and the darker segments indicate the functions which will be either fully or partly cost recovered based on current plans.

■ Maintain a committed, skilled and diverse workforce (see Figures 28 and 29)

■ Prepare to implement the Government’s intention to change the Office for Nuclear Regulation’s status from an in-house agency of HSE to a statutory corporation

■ Implement the cross Civil Service performance management arrangements from April 2013

■ Develop and implement a long-term reward strategy for HSE by October 2013

■ Provide people with appropriate training and learning development opportunities, including continuous professional development

■ Develop and implement the ‘Engage’ programme to support employee engagement and business performance

■ Manage the health and safety of our staff, maintaining a proactive approach to attendance management and continue to improve arrangements as set out in the HSE Framework for Health and Safety Management and Corporate Health and Safety Plan

2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 outturn outturn outturn outturn(p) Inc ONR Exc ONR

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E.2 Continue to reform HSE’s estate to achieve better space utilisation and improved cost efficiency

■ In line with HSE’s estates strategy, review and where applicable reduce HSE’s estate, as and when leases allow and where sublet opportunities arise, by moving to smaller premises through the Government Property Service or closing offices. Reviews include:

▬ Ashford, Glasgow, London (Rose Court), Nottingham, Northampton, Bristol, Carmarthen, Worcester and York in 2013/14

▬ Norwich, London (Caxton House) and Wrexham in 2014/15

■ Implement a phased plan for making the best use of HSE’s Headquarters (Redgrave Court, Bootle) and ensure provision of services and efficient PFI arrangement support

■ Define and implement by April 2015 a Government Property Unit (GPU) initiative to integrate current departmental property arrangements into a Shared Service platform

■ In line with the Greening Government Commitment, reduce the impact HSE has on the environment by:

▬ reducing waste and greenhouse gas emissions from HSE’s estate by 25% by 2015 from a 2009/10 benchmark

▬ reducing water consumption to best practice benchmarks

E.3 Use technology to drive down cost and improve efficiency

■ Implement in June 2013 a new, value for money supply arrangements for the Information and Communications Technology services HSE requires to support its business.

■ Define and implement a new Government compliant IT procurement strategy for delivery of HSE’s IT services from 2016

■ Exploit technology to allow staff to work more effectively outside of the office, improving productivity and flexibility

■ Streamline and simplify operational processes to improve delivery and performance, including:

▬ Implementing a single centralised call handling process for health and safety concerns and requests for advice in non major hazard sectors by March 2014

▬ Enabling the electronic delivery of letters and enforcement notices to dutyholders by May 2014

Figure 30 Net area of HSE’s estate in m2

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■ Redesign corporate services; including transferring human resources, finance and procurement transactional services to a shared service provider from June 2013

■ Post shared services, undertake a review of the Finance, Planning and Procurement resources across HSE to ensure optimum effectiveness and efficiency by September 2014

E.4 Utilise the knowledge, expertise and capabilities of the Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL) to improve health and safety management

■ Provide specialist services to HSE for incident investigation, providing the vital scientific evidence base to support prosecutions (see Figure 31 and C.1)

■ Provide specialist scientific services to HSE enabling the scientific evidence base to support policy (see A.1)

■ Develop and increase the sales of specialist scientific products and services to external clients, both nationally and internationally to help them improve the health and safety of their workers and those members of the public affected by their work (see Figures 32 and 33 and E.5 - Commercialisation) [TR]

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Figure 31 Number of incident investigations HSL has supported

2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 outturn outturn outturn outturn(p)

Figure 32 External Customer Evaluation

Exceeded or met Overall satisfaction requirements

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228199

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Figure 33 HSL External Income in £m

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14.125

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E.5 Manage our financial resources effectively to reduce our cost to the taxpayer

■ Manage our finances within the resources voted by Parliament

Reducing costs

■ Deliver a challenging range of efficiency and economy measures in all areas of spend to deliver our budget reductions whilst minimising the impact on frontline activity:

■ Exhaust all non-staff cost savings including: ▬ Reducing the cost of the estate by 25% in real terms through reducing the space we occupy and sub-letting where possible

▬ Continuing to seek travel and subsistence savings (approx 27% across the SR10 period) through smarter travel, restrictions on non-essential travel and extensive use of video conferencing

▬ Re-tendering of the IS/IT desktop and IT services contract delivering 40% savings on the desktop charge whilst transforming how the service is delivered

▬ Migrating to the Independent Shared Services Centre for provision of human resources, finance and procurement transactional processing – providing savings in running costs and future capital requirements from June 2013

■ Further managing down of staff numbers where appropriate

Deriving more of our income from non-Government sources

Commercialisation of HSE/L

More detail will be published later in the year but work this year will include:

■ Appointing a Commercial Director to identify and deliver options for the commercialisation of HSE/HSL. A high-level Steering Group will be responsible for considering and advising on the options, setting the pace and direction for the delivery of change and providing challenge to this work and to those who will be responsible for its delivery

■ Working with DWP and Cabinet Office to identify the best commercial delivery model going forward to enable HSE/HSL to build on its international reputation and take commercial opportunities from bodies outside the UK where they are willing to pay for our intellectual property and the combined expertise in its practical and proportionate application [TR]


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■ Publishing proposals for an advice service in May 2014 that will support a more efficient planning system and launch the full service by March 2015 [TR]

■ Developing proposals for a voluntary, fully chargeable inspection service and to begin testing demand among possible candidate organisations for such a service by the end of Autumn 2014 [TR]

Fee for Intervention

■ From October 2012, recover all of the costs HSE incurs arising from interventions where a material breach of the law which warrants remedial action is identified (Fee for Intervention)

■ Undertake a review of Fee for Intervention in 2014/15 [TR]

Effectiveness of Delivery

■ Implement a new performance framework during 2014/15 to enable a clearer demonstration of HSE’s performance [TR] This will include:

▬ Developing stakeholder perspective measures

▬ Developing measures to benchmark the cost effectiveness of its support services

▬ Reviewing targets and performance relating to investigations [see C.1]


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Our funding and where it comes fromHSE’s funding comes primarily from two main sources:

■ Grant provided by Government represents about 63% of our total funding for 2014/15. HSE receives Grant-in-Aid from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to fund our activities in Great Britain. Over the Spending Review 2010 period (2011/12 to 2014/15) HSE’s Grant-in-Aid reduces by over £78m which is 40% in real terms (see Figure 34)

■ HSE plans to recover approx 37% of its costs through income mainly in the major hazard sector (e.g. offshore safety, chemicals), Fee for Intervention (recovering HSE costs where inspections/investigations identify a material breach of health and safety law) and approvals (e.g. pesticides and biocides)

■ HSE has implemented a challenging efficiency and economy programme to live within its SR10 Settlement and continue to deliver its frontline objectives. We are on-track to live within our reduced resources for 2014/15 but acknowledge that further savings will be required as a result of Spending Round 2013. Further details are included on page 24

Figure 34 HSE’s Financial Settlement (£m) as agreed at the start of SR10

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How we plan to use our fundingHSE’s expenditure is predominantly related to staff costs and staff related expenses (e.g. accommodation, IS/IT, travel) (see Figure 36)

The proportion of HSE’s costs which are expended in delivering each of HSE’s objectives is shown in Figure 37.

Figure 36 HSE Expenditure by Category 2014/15

Staff costs (66%) Staff related costs (4%) Accommodation and estates (10%) IS/IT and Telecoms (3%) Legal costs (3%) Technical support (3%) Depreciation (2%) Other costs (9%)

4%

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Figure 37 2014/15 gross expenditure by objective

Our mission: The prevention of death, injury and ill health to those at work and those affected by work activities 2014/15 Gross Expenditure Budget: £225m Income £86m

Our aims: A. Lead others to improve health and

safety in the workplace

Exp £93m Inc £26m

B. Provide an effective regulatory framework

Exp £38m Inc £16m

C. Secure compliance with

the law

Exp £58m Inc £16m

D. Reduce the likelihood of low

frequency, high-impact catastrophic incidentsExp £36m Inc £28m

Our key objectives:

A.1 Use evidence and knowledge to

prioritise our own actions and guide the

actions of others

Exp £43m Inc £15m

B.1 Simplify and consolidate domestic

health and safety regulations to make

the law easier to understand

Exp £14m Inc £0m

C.1 Investigate work related accidents,

incidents and ill health

Exp £44m Inc £9m

D.1 Regulate major hazard operators and dutyholders effectively

and proportionately

Exp £32m Inc £28m

A.2 Target and conduct inspections

of sectors and activities which give

rise to the most serious risks

Exp £38m Inc £9m

B.2 Negotiate and secure the best

possible outcome in Europe for the UK

Exp £7m Inc £1m

C.2 Take formal enforcement action to

prevent harm and secure justice where

appropriate

Exp £14m Inc £7m

D.2 Provide authoritative advice in relation to hazardous substances and land

use planning

Exp £4m Inc £0m

A.3 Provide guidance and support to enable informed workplace

health and safety decisions

Exp £7m Inc £2m

B.3 Act as Competent Authority for biocides, pesticides, detergents

and industrial chemicals

Exp £17m Inc £15m

A.4 Work in partnership to raise

awareness and create behavioural change

Exp £4m Inc £0m

A.5 Demonstrate the benefits of

proportionate health and safety

Exp <£1m Inc £0m

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