Health Safety & Wellbeing Awareness

What’s your perception of Health and Safety?

What’s your perception of Health and Safety?

Why is Health Safety and Wellbeing law important?

• First and foremost it’s to ensure you don’t suffer any adverse health effects from your work activities

Health Promotion!

Accident Prevention!

Why is Health Safety and Wellbeing important?

• Reduce the number of accidents and incidents• Reduced likelihood of litigation• Reduced likelihood of enforcement action by Health and

Safety Executive• Reduced sickness absence, more timely return to work via

occupational health • Financial savings • Morale/staff retention and recruitment

2006-2007 = £2,067,898• 3.5 Chief Executives, or• 4 Directors, or• 9 Senior Managers, or • 13 Practice Managers, or• 17 Social Workers, or• 30 Community Support Assistants, or• 22 Residential Workers, or• 33 Administrators, or • 20 Admin Officers……..

for the same period of time

• The Council does not generate its own finances. The budget allocated to directorates comes, in the main, from the general public through tax’s.

All of us pay tax!

Why is Health Safety and Wellbeing important cont..

History

Health and Safety legislation is not a new concept:-

•1830’s Factory Acts;

•1860’s Factory Inspectors;

•1870’s Chimney Sweeps;

•1891 Relevant Case Law;

•1974 H&S at work act.

H&S at Work Act 1974

DSE

Safe use of Work Equipment Regs

Management of H&S at Work Regs

Manual Handling Regs

PPE Regs

Workplace Health Safety & Welfare

Regs

The Six Pack

• Risk Assessment

“An assessment of risk is nothing more than a careful examination of what, in your work, could cause harm to people so that you can weigh up whether you have taken enough precautions or should do more”

Regulation 3: Management of Health& Safety at Work 1999.

“Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown”

Traditional proverbTraditional proverb.

H&S at work act 1974 Responsibilities

Section 2 : Employers must as far as reasonably practicable, safeguard the health, safety and welfare of employees.

Section 7: (a) To take reasonable care for the health & safety of himself and others who may be affected by his acts or omissions (b) To co-operate with his employer, necessary, to enable his employer to comply with their H&S duty

Section 37: A breach of provisions (law) with the knowledge of, connivance of or has been attributable to the neglect of a Director, Manager, Secretary, or other Officer of that organisation…….

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DirectorsDirectors DirectorsDirectors

Deputy DirectorsDeputy Directors Deputy DirectorsDeputy Directors

Dept HeadsDept Heads Dept HeadsDept Heads

Senior managersSenior managers

SupervisorsSupervisors

Senior managersSenior managers

SupervisorsSupervisors

Main responsibility lies hereMain responsibility lies here

Responsibility is delegatedResponsibility is delegated

down the “chain of command” but remains with down the “chain of command” but remains with

Senior managementSenior management

Responsibility is proportional to the role you hold

Responsibilities

Health, Safety and Wellbeing, the truth!

Health Safety and Wellbeing TeamWho we are and what we do

Health Safety and Wellbeing Team

HSW LeadSean Oates

Senior HSW Advisor (Communities)

Dawn Bailey

Senior HSW

Advisor (ACS)

Andrew Wilkinson

Senior HSW Advisor

(CSF)Phil Rundle

Senior HSW Advisor

(CEO and Corporate Support)

Richard Greenwood

Senior HSW Advisor

(EPE)Jill Brown

Senior Safety Officer

Rob Ley

Senior Occupational Health Nurse

Alison Presswell

Administrative Manager

Lesley Rawicki

Admin Team (x6)Tanya Davis

Theresa SalmonDianne SealeLinda TaylorHannah RoweJodie Cocks

OH Nurses (x3)

Eileen RoweJanet BakerVacant post

Sessional OH Physician

Safety Officers (x4)Vacancy

Yvonne JenningsJuliet BryantTony Broad

EPE Health and Safety SecondmentBen Widdershoven

HSW Co-ordinatorRobin Harris

Technical Support Officer

Louise Seager

• Advice and guidance • Monitoring and Auditing• Incident reporting and investigation• Project work• Representation on national and corporate

working groups & committees• Training• Administration of Eye tests• Liaison with enforcement agencies i.e. HSE

Health Safety and Wellbeing Team

http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/Default.aspx?page=18603

• Pre employment medical screening• Work related Health surveillance• Advice and guidance to directorates relating to employee

health and wellbeing• Medical assessment of employees absent through ill

health.• Assisting management ill health referrals• Training.• Liaison with specialist groups i.e. Red Poppy, Relate.• Liaison with local health partnerships

• http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/Default.aspx?page=18783

Occupational Health Team

Confidential Counselling

• Cornwall Council service for staff and members• Relate Cornwall• Access by phone 01726 74007 and quoting the

reference REL • An appointment outside an individual’s normal

working hours will be made at a centre chosen by the individual. 

• Free

• Contact your line manager/supervisor

How to obtain Health, Safety and Wellbeing advice

• HS&W dept (01872) 322118• Email : healthandsafety@cornwall.gov.uk• Fax : (01872) 323473

• Occupational Health (01872) 323138 • Email : occupationalhealth@cornwall.gov.uk• Fax : (01872) 323827

ANY QUESTIONS?

“If You always do what you always did, You’ll always get what you always got" Forest Gump.