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Health Safety & Wellbeing Awareness

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.

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Health Safety & Wellbeing Awareness

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  1. Health Safety & Wellbeing Awareness

  2. What’s your perception of Health and Safety?

  3. What’s your perception of Health and Safety?

  4. 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!

  5. 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

  6. Why is Health Safety and Wellbeing important cont.. 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!

  7. 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.

  8. H&S at Work Act 1974 Workplace Health Safety & Welfare Regs PPE Regs DSE Manual Handling Regs Safe use of WorkEquipment Regs Management of H&S at Work Regs The Six Pack

  9. 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.

  10. “Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown” Traditional proverb.

  11. H&S at work act 1974Responsibilities • 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…….

  12. Responsibilities Main responsibility lies here Responsibility is delegated down the “chain of command” but remains with Senior management Responsibility is proportional to the role you hold

  13. Health, Safety and Wellbeing, the truth!

  14. Health Safety and Wellbeing Team Who we are and what we do

  15. Health Safety and Wellbeing Team

  16. Health Safety and Wellbeing Team • 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 http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/Default.aspx?page=18603

  17. Occupational Health Team • 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

  18. 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

  19. How to obtain Health, Safety and Wellbeing advice • Contact your line manager/supervisor • 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

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

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