Peter Brown Health and Safety Executive

Health and Safety Executive

Health and Safety Executive

The HSE strategy – a new focus on health

Peter Brown

Deputy Director, Health and Work Branch

HSE’s purpose….

…to reduce work-related death,

injury and ill health

The world of work in context

• 5.5million businesses in the UK • 30 million workers • Enforcement action is just one part of the story • Other approaches include:

• Providing advice and guidance • Influencing and engaging with stakeholders • Creating awareness of h&s risks • Encouraging behaviour change • Sharing lessons learnt from investigations

Helping Great Britain Work Well

• Build a safer, healthier and more prosperous Great Britain

• Effective health and safety driven by dutyholders

• Helping Great Britain Work Well is a business enabler

HSE’s new strategy: Key themes

HSE’s contribution

• Continue as the prime mover in the health and safety system

• Work with others to ensure regulation is simple and effective

• Acting with others - talk, share ideas and set the right direction for the future

Tackling ill health

• Key priority for HSE

• An issue effecting every section of society

• Last year (2015/16) :

around 13,000 deaths* from work-related lung disease

est. 1.3 million workers* suffered work related illness

• Drive for change is needed

* http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/causdis/index.htm

Tackling ill health

• Working with key bodies

• Considering the health of future workers

• Working together to find solutions

Key priorities for HSE

• Stress and mental health

• MSDs

• Occupational lung disease

Joining up approaches

A busy landscape

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#HelpGBWorkWell

HSE preventing

work-related ill

health

DWP, WG, SG extending employment

health benefits to those not currently working

Public Health Improving general

health or working

population

Addressing work-related stress

Stress:

• causes sickness absence – cost in £bn

• can have many causes

• sectors with higher rates – focus for HSE

Work-related stress – finding solutions together

• Review guidance & update the evidence base

• Stakeholder engagement – working in partnership

• Sector pilots – education, health and prisons

• Promoting Management Standards key themes:

- Demands - Relationships

- Control - Role

- Support - Change

The Water Sector

• AN EXEMPLAR?

A strong platform for change

• Strong platform for how health and safety can be improved by the whole system

• Make a difference and show commitment

• Do your bit to help Great Britain work well

What we need to do

• Challenge ourselves – we can do better on health

• Share learning – there are known solutions

• Take action – improving health is a long haul job

THANK YOU