scottish court service health & safety brief to copfs management board
TRANSCRIPT
• Policies
• Committee
• Training
• Reporting & investigation
• Inspections (H&S audits/FRAs)
• Occupational Health
• Director HR – both SCS and COPFS• Senior operational managers• Local operational managers• Property service (shared service provider)• Sheriffs’ Association• TUS (PCS from SCS & COPFS and FDA)• H&S Team• ITSO – SCS
• Monitor H&S risks to SCS and COPFS & identify improvement actions;
• Ensure that SCS and COPFS health and safety policies and standards reflect statutory requirements and current risks;
• Periodically review and test the application of health and safety policies and standards;
• Monitor the incident reporting process and the conclusions of serious incident and accident investigations;
• Monitor the risk assessment process and ensure standards are applied evenly across SCS and COPFS;
• Review the results of the health and safety audits undertaken;
• Review the work programme of the H&S team;
• Highlight H&S priorities to the H&S team and Property Service Unit of SCS;
• Review the adequacy of the planned health and safety training programme
E-learning modules in each of• Avoiding slips, trips & falls• Fire safety & evacuation• Safe manual handling• VDU & workstation
Office & building managers’ course
Avoiding slips, trips & falls 605 = 36%
Fire safety & evacuation 386 = 23%
Safe manual handling 323 = 19%
VDU & workstation 421 = 25%
• Web hosted reporting system available to all staff
• Alerts OM, TUS and Federation managers to incident
• Security protocols at user and host end• Easy to administer• Permanent record of incident and follow up
actions• Satisfies RIDDOR requirements• Auditable system
38 in 2012 – 2 RIDDOR•13 V&A (verbal abuse/confrontation)•9 slips, trips & falls•6 cuts/abrasions/burns•4 manual handling•1 vehicle collision•1 fire•1 ceiling partial collapse•1 bleach spillage
• 49 staff had assistance from either Occ Health provider and/or Posturite
• Mainly backache; less commonly RSI & WRULDs
Dusty Miller 01224 657 232
John McMillan 0131 444 3443
Paul McClintock 0131 444 3394
Stuart Bailey 0131 444 3448
[email protected]@scotcourts.gov.uk