HSE activity and resume of topical issues
Transcript of HSE activity and resume of topical issues
HSE activity and resume of
topical issues
Paul Harvey
HM Principal Inspector
HSE workplan 2014/15 rationale
• 75% of fatals are with small employers
• 90% of fatals on small sites
• 70% of fatals are in refurbishment
• 80% of fatals are falls from height
• 1.7 million days lost due to ill health
• 0.6 million days lost due to injury
Fatalities
• 2012/13 - 39 workers & 5 MOP
• 2013/14 – currently at ….
• 2013/14 (Wales) – 4 fatals
• Deaths from occupational ill health/
disease (100x greater)
Occupational Ill health
• 30,000 new work related ill health cases
reported every year.
– Asthma
– HAV
– NIHL
– MSDs
– etc
• 40% of all occupational cancer deaths are
from the construction industry
Health (occupational cancers)
• Asbestos
• Solar radiation
• Painters
• Silica
• Diesel emissions
• PAH
HSE Workplan 2014/15
• Asbestos
• Small sites
• Refurbishment
• Health
• Homebuild
• Loft Conversions
HSE Workplan 2013/14
• Commercial solar panel installations
• Asbestos analysts
• Fragile roofwork
• Agricultural fragile roofwork
Inspection 2013/14
• 11,000 proactive inspections
– 2600 inspections in the “blitz”
– 50% needed improvement
• Work at height
• Exposure to dust
• Inadequate welfare
Leadership
• Active leadership
– See handout
www.hse.gov.uk/Construction/lwit/index.
htm
CDM Update
• Still working through inter government
department clearance
• If cleared then imminent via stakeholders,
press release etc
• Four main areas
– Removal of ACOP
– CDMC v Principal designer
– Competence
– Domestic clients
CDM - Competence
• CDM 2007 requires “competence.”
• Competence is
– Selection
– Initial training & assessment
– Experience
– Lifelong learning
• CDM 2015 likely to remove competence
and have specific duty for information,
instruction, training & supervision
Competence
• CITB survey (lack of competent workers)
• 73% have no recognised qualification
• Cards – 300 variants, only 4%
competence assessed
• Demographics of the industry
Asbestos Awareness Training
• “at regular intervals” (Regs)
• “Refresher training … every year” (ACOP)
• “refresher awareness” could be “e-
learning or part of an update” (Guidance)
Prosecutions
• Demolition of a mezzanine floor.
Inadequate demolition plan. £30,000
fine.
Prosecutions
• Installing solar panels. Fall from a fragile
roof. £13,000 fine and conviction of
company director (HSWA s37).
Prosecutions
Building occupier & roofer
• Building occupier failed to supervise or assess work
despite knowing the roof
was fragile
• £250,000 fine plus costs
• Roofer rec’d prison
sentence
Prosecutions
• Scaffolder fell whilst dismantling scaffold.
£130,000 fine of PC. Director of s/c fined
£20,000 under S37.
• Principal Contractor: Failed to plan,
manage and monitor a sub contractor
Prosecutions
• Housebuilding Company and its director
– 2 cases prosecuted (1 injury & 1
complaint)
– Company £56,000 plus £11,000
– Director (HSWA s37) fined £32,000
plus £11,000 costs plus 8months
custodial sentence (suspended for 2
years) plus disqualified for 3 years.
Consent, connivance and/or neglect? (HSWA s37)
Fee for Intervention
“A material breach is when, in the opinion of the HSE inspector,
there has been a contravention of
health and safety law that requires them to notify the dutyholder,
in writing, of that opinion ”
Themes for 2014/15
• National
– Emerging from recession
– Health
• Local
– Available workforce?
– Developers
– Leadership in the industry
– Agri construction
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Paul Harvey
HM Principal Inspector