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AHDS2013 WS14 HSE
1. Health and Safety
Executive
Sensible health and safety
management in schools
AHDS Annual Conference – 8 November 2013
David Bryant
Public Services Sector
Health and Safety Executive
2. Today’s workshop
1. Our priorities
2. Health and safety in your school – health check
3. Sensible health and safety in schools – any
different from strong leadership?
4. Myth busting
5. What did I miss out?
3. The reform agenda
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Common Sense Common Safety – Oct 2010
Good health and safety, good for everyone - March 2011
Red Tape Challenge - April 2011
Löfstedt - Independent review - Nov 2011 and Jan 2013
Triennial Review
Outcomes
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Refreshed regulatory framework
A changed regulator
Increased media and public focus on burdens
Strategy remains relevant
4. Refreshed regulatory framework
Some key aspects:
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Simplify legislation
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Extend cost recovery
Streamline and simplify guidance
- Review of ACoPs
Reduce burden
– RIDDOR reports
– Some exemption for self-employed
– easier to find competent consultants
5. Progress so far
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Management Regulations
– Health and safety management
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Accident reporting – October 2013
– New guidance on line
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First Aid – October 2013
– Needs assessment to identify level of first aid provision
6. …..and a changed regulator?
Where we are now?
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Resource & Inspector focus on high risk sectors
– construction, agriculture, some manufacturing,
waste and recycling, quarrying
– fewer inspections
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Fewer inspectors and policy staff
– maintain investigation & enforcement activity
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Charging regime for ‘material breach’
No Infoline – refreshed website
More attention to myth-busting and rebuttals
7. …..and in schools
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Asbestos management – access to competent advice;
management plans; information
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Building maintenance – refurbishment, work at height staff and contractors
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Slips, trips and falls – cleaning regimes; kitchens
Vehicle movements – contractors; deliveries
Working with government departments to give clear
message on real risk in schools
8. Updated and new guidance
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SSERC – sensible health and safety
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Work experience
– guidance revised
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High level statements – eg play and leisure
RIDDOR –
– revised October 2013
– ASN - revised web guidance
– Slips & trips – new web guidance on the way
Asbestos – frequently asked questions; checklist
9. Health and safety leadership in your
school
Quick health check
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10. In your school……..
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Health and safety is about:
A. Providing a framework to ensure that
risks are prioritised, so that resources are
directed at significant risks
B. Ensuring that all risks and all activities
are assessed and recorded
C. To enable each individual member of
staff to deal with risk as they see fit – they
are professionals
11. In your school……..
2. The safety culture in your school:
A. All risks are eliminated to create an
environment of absolute safety
B. Pupils are allowed to experience risks in
a managed way
C. There isn’t a good understanding about
risks, priorities and risk management –
though we are very safety conscious
12. In your school……..
3. Making decisions about new activities:
A. Sometimes we have to say we can’t run an
event for health and safety reasons
B. Health and safety is not seen as a barrier to
activities. Rather than banning activities – we
make sure sensible solutions are identified
C. If we had to follow health and safety rules we
wouldn’t be able to do anything novel – so we
just ignore some rules
13. In your school……..
4. The Health and safety policy:
A. Is detailed guidance with requirements for
written procedures and rigorously
overseen with regular checklists or
audits.
B. Is site specific, practical and endorsed by
the senior team
C. Is generic, provided by the local authority
so does not need to school specific in any
way
14. In your school……..
5. Health and safety training
A. We aim to provide detailed training for all
activities so we are safe
B. Training and advice is provided to
support staff to enable them to control the
significant risks
C. All our members of staff are able to make
decisions without support and advice
15. In your school……..
6. Risk assessment:
A. Detailed written risk assessments are required
and provided for every activity. This is repeated
on annual basis
B. The precautions necessary for significant risks
are clearly documented – the actions staff need
to taken are straightforward and simple
C. Assessments are in place for most classroom
activities, but precautions for off site activities
have to be more fluid in nature
16. In your school……..
7. Involving staff:
A. Novel solutions suggested by our staff
are helpful – if only we were able to
implement them
B. Staff are consulted and involved in finding
practical and sensible solutions
C. We rely on our health and safety lead to
stay on top of our concerns
17. HSE’s intervention plan
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Collaborative working with stakeholders
The focus is on:
– Leadership
– Competence
– Dealing with real risk
– Tackling misunderstandings
18. In other words – sensible risk
management
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In schools, sensible health and safety:
– is about creating a safe learning environment
and allowing pupils to experience risk in a
managed way
– it is not about the elimination of all risk but
about doing what is reasonably practicable
and proportionate
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Fine words…
… but what does it mean in practice?
19. Strong health and safety leadership
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Encouraging stronger leadership and
understanding about sensible health and
safety
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Getting this right means:
• understanding the risks the school
faces
• understanding how to rank issues in
order of importance
• ensure controls are in place to
manage the real risks
20. Encouraging a balanced approach
School trips: www.hse.gov.uk/services/education/school-trips.htm
26. HSE’s efforts to bust the myths and restore focus on
real risks
Putting the record straight
"We often come across half-baked decisions taken in the name of health
and safety, but this one takes the biscuit. The real issue isn't what
shape the flapjacks are, but the fact that pupils are throwing them at
each other – and that's a matter of discipline, and has got nothing to do
with health and safety as we know it. We're happy to make clear that
flapjacks of all shapes and sizes continue to have our full backing”
Judith Hackitt’s blog
Myth busting Challenge Panel
27. Myth busting
We can all help….
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Effective leadership – encourage focus on real risks
not trivia – proportionate risk management
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Provide relevant information for school managers,
head teachers, heads of departments, estates staff
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Sensible risk management for the next generation
29. In your school……..
1. Health and safety is about providing a
framework to ensure that risks are prioritised,
so that resources are directed at significant
risks.
30. In your school……..
2. The safety culture enables pupils to
experience risks in a managed way
31. In your school……..
3. Making decisions about new activities health and safety is not seen as a barrier to
activities. Rather than banning activities –
we make sure sensible solutions are
identified
32. In your school……..
4. The Health and safety policy is site specific,
practical and endorsed by the senior team.
33. In your school……..
5. Health and safety training is provided to
support staff to enable them to control the
significant risks in the school
34. In your school……..
6. Risk assessment in our school means the
precautions necessary to manage significant
risks are clearly documented – the actions
staff need to taken are straightforward and
simple
35. In your school……..
7. Involving staff - staff are consulted and
involved in finding practical and sensible
solutions
37. School production cancelled because lighting
operator had not attended ladder training course
Issue
• A school production, contributing to students GCSE exams
was not going ahead because the lighting operator had not
had attended a fixed ladder training course.
Panel decision
• This is not a proportionate or sensible decision and is an
unnecessarily rigid interpretation of working at height
regulations. It's a good idea to move the box in the longer
term and in the meantime ensure that anyone who
accesses the box takes reasonable and sensible
precautions.
40. Is it really about health and safety?
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Promoting the welfare and wellbeing of pupils
Communicable diseases
Behaviour and discipline of pupils
Criminal record checks
Food hygiene
Driving school minibus
Use of seat belts on buses
Waste and pollution control
41. Does it make sense
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Where do the precautions come from
– Legal requirement
– Internal policies or procedures
– External advice
– A local manager
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Do the precautions match
the actual risk?
42. What can you do about it?
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The right action has been taken, and
properly communicated
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The precautions are sensible – but were
not properly explained
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The precautions are disproportionately
high for the level of risk
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The risk is not managed
43. Finally
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Find out if it really is a health and safety concern
Look for health and safety solutions - not for obstacles
Ensure that your precautions pass the test of being sensible and
proportionate
Communicate your risk management decisions clearly and honestly.
