IOSH Staffordshire Branch

19 January 2017

Meet the Regulators

Vincent Joyce – HSE

Adrian Allman – Stafford Borough Council

John Berrisford – Staffordshire Fire and Rescue

Housekeeping

• Fire Safety

• Toilets and facilities

• Phones – silent/vibrate please during the presentation

• Feedback forms

• Slido

2017 Planner

19th Jan – Meet the Regulators

9th Feb – AGM, IOSH President,

Key Speaker – Louise Taggart - Michael’s Story

16th March – Slips, Trips and Falls, Safe Step Demo

20th April – CDM Update – Design and Construction Phase

Breakfast meeting PLUS usual evening meeting

18th May – ISO 14001 – back to basics, and essentials of

environmental management

15th June – Drone Safety

2017-18 Planner

20th July – Fleet Vehicle Safety

ROSPA – Dr Karen McDonnell

17th August – Indoor Air Quality – Dr Julie Riggs

21st September – Essential Building Safety

19th October – Emergency Preparedness & Response

16th November – Legal Updates

21st December – Christmas Quiz

18th January 2018 – Meet The Regulators

15th February 2018 – AGM – Key Speaker

Lisa Ramos – Her Story & IOSH President

today

journey

yourStart

IOSH Blueprint

- The competency framework for the

safety and health profession

- It includes a self-assessment tool

- You identify which skills you want

to develop

Four core skills groups

1 Engagement and influence

2 Strategy and planning

3 Sustainable business

4 Technical skills

Self-assessment tool

- Members currently have exclusive access

- Create your own professional

competency profile

- Create your professional

development plan

Using the

self-assessment tool

- Log in at MyIOSH

- View the skills categories

- Click the level for each skill

that best reflects you

- Once done, that’s your

professional competency

profile!

Create your professional

development plan

- Click on the level you want

to reach for each skill

- Click “download

professional

development

plan”

Using your professional

development plan

- Upload it to your CPD

record

- Plan your training and

development needs

- Discuss with your

manager or peers

Easy to use

- Takes less than an hour to complete

- Can be done in several sessions –

everything is saved automatically

as you progress

And so are the people who helped us develop it…

We’re confident about

600 members

18 universities

26 businesses

Contact us

- shapingthefuture@iosh.co.uk

- +44 (0)116 257 3600

Health and Safety Executive

HSE priorities

Vincent Joyce

HM Principal Inspector

Staffordshire & Shropshire

HSE Strategy:

“Helping GB work well”

Themes:

- Acting together

- Tackling Ill Health

- Managing risk well

- Supporting small employers

- Keeping pace with change

- Sharing our success

Tackling Ill Health

• Estimated 1.3 m workers self-report work-

related ill health

• Renewed approach to health

– Collaborative working with other

government departments

• Work-related stress

• MSDs

• Occupational lung disease

Sector Plans [refreshed 16/17]

• 3-5 years

• Evidence-based

• Evidence based analysis including:

– ill-health & incident data;

– enforcement data

– progress in performance

– industry trends & future changes

– influence and importance of stakeholders

– Experience of what works

Operational work 16/17

• High risk sectors, including:

– Food: MSDs, flour dust

– Ag, Waste, Recycling: end-life vehicles;

poultry dust

– Manufacturing: silica; wood dust,

metalworking fluids; welding fume

– Legionella

2017/18 Operational Plan

• HSE Business Plan and Sector plans

– Operational proactive delivery plan focus on

• Key risks/Sectors:

Benchmarking, radiation, legionella,

prisons, agriculture, waste & recycling,

fairgrounds, fab metals, wood, food and

construction.

• Other High Risk Sectors:

rubber, surface engineering, foundries and

concrete/possibly brick

[ www.hse.gov.uk Free publications and guidance]

Issues arising 16/17 locally

• Workplace Transport

• Gas safety

– CO

– Installers

– Maintenance

• Asbestos

• Health:

– HAVs

– MSDs

• Violence [‘secure establishments’]

Adrian Allman

BSc (Hons) MCIEH DipNEBOSH

Principal Environmental Health Officer

(Regulatory Services)

www.staffordbc.gov.uk

aallman@staffordbc.gov.uk 07800 619374

Regulatory Services – Update

Health and Safety Functions:

• Accident investigation

• Investigation of complaints

• Asbestos notifications

• Proactive work/inspections

• Promote awareness of health and safety

• Support businesses

Other functions of Regulatory Services:

• Licensing

• Planning consultations

• Food Hygiene

• Environmental Protection

• Enviro-crime

H&S Priorities: looking forward

from last year…

• Intelligence gatheringo Industrial estate surveys, internet

searches, local knowledge

• Sharing intelligenceo Fire Service, Trading Standards,

neighbouring local authorities

• Acting on intelligenceo Focus resources, joint-working

Proactive Interventions – Sunbed safety

Sunbed campaign – joint with Trading Standards

Health and Safety

Public Health (no under 18s)

8 high risk premises

Proactive – animal health

Licenced premises visits

Zoos

Animal Boarding Establishments

Dog Boarding

Reactive Intervention – Body piercers

Proactive intervention – industrial estates

Proactive Intervention- builder’s merchant

Work at Height

Slips and Trips

Workplace

Transport

Proactive Interventions – Tyres

Proactive Interventions - Tyres and exhausts

Tyres and exhaustsJ

Proactive Interventions - Tyres and exhausts

John Berrisford BA, Dip.RSA,MIFireE, CMIOSH, FIIRSM,MIIAI

Business Support LeadStaffordshire Fie and Rescue Service

Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service

Business Support Team

What do we do?

Paul Crutchley

Business Support OfficerStaffordshire Fire and Rescue Service

Contact: 07568 088 182

Paul.crutchley@staffordshirefire.gov.uk

My background and experiences are:

The Business Support Function

• launched in September 2009

• re-branded from “Commercial Fire Safety Department”

• dedicated business support team

• partnership and collaborative working, added value…

• Influenced by changes to legislation and working practices

• Enforcement and the need to respond to those changes

• Range of topics, not typically limited to fire safety advice

• Statutory role as regulator, the main perception / expectation

Why Business Support?

• Developed a number of ways to support local businesses

• Providing active services “when they are really needed”

Contribution far beyond those expectations!

• Ofqual level 2 fire safety awareness(CIEH Level 3 fire risk assessment)

• Ofqual level 2 health and safety

• FPA fire warden / fire safety awareness

• Evacuation chairs / methods

• Incident support (live fire attendance)

• 24 hour response (protracted incidents)

• 24 Telephone support / referral

• Networking – tell people what we do!

Developed specific services and support mechanisms by...

• Providing advice and support that is tailored to businesses in order to assist in the prevention of fire and other emergencies.

• Providing support and information to businesses that have had a fire, both at the time of the fire and post fire.

• Providing training and instruction that incorporates training packages that have been developed top provide long term training solutions rather than a one time fix.

• Providing specific business support visits that allow the recipient to generate the agenda and lead the support activity with our assistance.

Address: Church Street, Stoke

Date: 28 November 2016 mobilised at 15:30

Incident: Fire involving men's department of a very busy bridle business.

1500 Clients contacted during the immediate 24 hours following the fire.

Portable Heating

• Supplementary

• Domestic or Commercial

• Where not to place them

• Check your Insurance policy

• Repair / use the main heating scheme

• Consider cost to run

Business Support initiated: S4390 (Business Support Lead) mobilised following a direct request from the Incident commander.

Support provided: Information gathering and initial communication route established with other businesses affected by the incident. Managed information flow and updates to the other businesses with regular briefings. Managing the insurance aspect s client had no idea.

Post Fire Support: on going and to date our support has been recognised by all concerned. 33k interim payment secured to help the business with the recovery process.

Client Comment: “there’s no way I could have managed all this on my own, it was a mine field, the John and Paul were there when I needed them most, we can’t thank them enough”… (Frank & Cynthia Bruce, Business Owners)

Support and advice provided

Shop owner speaks of pride after granddaughter helps saves our shop…

• Raised the alarm• Evacuated the building• Called 999• Tackled the fire , beaten back• Closed fire door• Left the building

• Result 50% less damage

Zero Prosecutions

Minimum Enforcement

EducationEncouragementEnforcement

• Get out• Stay out• Call the Fire Service out

999

Reactive - Warehouse Accident

investigation - (ongoing)

Action taken

• New Risk Assessment

• New Safe System for

segregating pedestrian, incl;

• Floor markings

• Barrier tapes when FLT

present

• Installation of barriers

protecting pedestrian

areas

• System of segregation

• Trialling new FLT LED

“Pedestrian Lights”

Reactive - Fire

Ongoing investigation led by the Environment

Agency

Emergency Services, HSE, LAs and Business

Proactive visits to all known high risk fire sites

across Staffordshire

Additional Resilience training to LA staff across

Staffordshire

Reactive – Takeaway

Routine Food Hygiene

Inspection

Referrals to housing, health &

safety and fire safety

Summary

Reactive:

Accidents

Service requests

Proactive

Interventions/Inspections

Intelligence gathering

Advice

Q & A

Round Table

Discussion

2017 Planner

19th Jan – Meet the Regulators

9th Feb – AGM, IOSH President,

Key Speaker – Louise Taggart - Michael’s Story

16th March – Slips, Trips and Falls, Safe Step Demo

20th April – CDM Update – Design and Construction Phase

Breakfast meeting PLUS usual evening meeting

18th May – ISO 14001 – back to basics, and essentials of

environmental management

15th June – Drone Safety

2017-18 Planner

20th July – Fleet Vehicle Safety

ROSPA – Dr Karen McDonnell

17th August – Indoor Air Quality – Dr Julie Riggs

21st September – Essential Building Safety

19th October – Emergency Preparedness & Response

16th November – Legal Updates

21st December – Christmas Quiz

18th January 2018 – Meet The Regulators

15th February 2018 – AGM – Key Speaker

Lisa Ramos – Her Story & IOSH President