A1 Health and Safety Ltd

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Established health and safety consultancy supporting various types of industry countrywide.

18/07/2024

Latest figures released show that 138 workers were killed in work related accidents in 2023-24 in the UK.
The biggest killer was falls from height accounting for 36% of all fatalities.
Worst but expected industry was construction which suffered 51 fatalities.
For every 100,000 who worked in construction 2.43 died, in manufacturing it was 0.64 per 100,000 and agriculture was 7.51, making it by far the most dangerous industry to work in.

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14/02/2024

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21/02/2020

An HSE inspector was the victim of violence and aggression while conducting an inspection at a waste and recycling site, it has been revealed.
The senior inspector was subjected to repeated verbal abuse and offensive language and was physically threatened by Teeside site owner Jacob Alexander Thompson. He stepped towards the official and raised his fist as he aggressively told him to leave. Cleveland Police became involved and the offence was taken to court.
Thompson, 38, pleaded guilty to an offence under section 4 of the Public Order Act 1986. He was ordered to pay £100 compensation and costs of £85. He also received a conditional discharge of six months.
Principal inspector Victoria Wise said: “Thompson’s aggression, threats and abuse are wholly unacceptable. The
HSE will not tolerate any form of violence, aggression or abuse.
“Our inspectors are warranted to attend premises to carry out their job to ensure the safety and health of those working there. Any aggressive or violent words or actions taken against HSE staff in the course of their duties will be reported to the police.

17/12/2019

Almost 700 schools have been reported to the HSE for failure to put in place adequate asbestos management systems, according to information revealed to a campaigner by the Department for Education after a Freedom of Information request.
The DfE revealed that 676 state-funded schools or academies have been reported to the HSE over their asbestos management as “their plans and procedures were not in line with good practice”.
The release came in the same week as the HSE released its latest annual figures on the number of deaths from mesothelioma, the asbestos-related lung cancer that is almost exclusively occupational.
The fact that nearly 700 schools have been referred to HSE because they weren’t able to satisfy the DfE that they were managing their asbestos in line with legal requirements, is a shocking indictment of current systems of oversight.
The lives of thousands of staff and pupils could be at risk in these schools. The HSE, which lacks resources following years of budget cuts, will now be expected to investigate these cases.

12/08/2019

The number of workplace fatalities in Great Britain crept upwards last year, with provisional HSE data showing that 147 workers lost their lives in the 12 months to 31 March 2019, compared to 141 in the previous 12 months.

The 2017/18 rate of 141 was itself an increase on the 135 workplace deaths recorded in 2016/17, suggesting that the rate is gradually tracking up.

However, the HSE argues that the figures have “remained broadly level in recent years” and are in line with a five-year average of 142.

It also points to the “long-term reduction in the number of fatalities since 1981”, when 495 people died at work.

• agriculture saw an increase, with 32 in 2018/19 compared to 29 in the previous year;
• construction recorded slightly fewer deaths, at 30 in 2018/19 compared to 38 in 2017/18;
• manufacturing accounted for 26 deaths, a significant increase on the low of 15 recorded in 2017/18;
• waste and recycling slightly reduced its fatal injury rate to seven, but this is still 17 times higher than the average across all industries.
The three most common causes of fatal injuries, together accounting for nearly 60% of the total, are:
• falling from height at 40, compared to 35 last year;
• being struck by a moving vehicle at 30, up from 27; and
• being struck by a moving object at 16, down from 18 last year.

FIRST AIDWhat employers need to do:You must make appropriate first-aid arrangements for your workplace. In doing so you ...
04/06/2019

FIRST AID
What employers need to do:
You must make appropriate first-aid arrangements for your workplace. In doing so you should consider the circumstances of your workplace, workforce and the health and safety risks that may be present to help you decide what arrangements you need to put in place.
Some small low-risk workplaces need to have only a first-aid box and a person appointed to take charge of first-aid arrangements such as calling the emergency services and stocking the first-aid box. The appointed person does not need specific first-aid training.
If your workplace has more significant health and safety risks, for example you use machinery or hazardous materials then you are more likely to need a trained first-aider.
You must provide all your employees with details of the first-aid arrangements

First-aid needs assessment
In order to establish what provision for first-aid is required you should make an assessment of the first-aid needs appropriate to the circumstances of your business.
This should include consideration of:
• the workplace,
• the workforce, and
• the hazards and risks present.

As a minimum, you must have:
• a suitably stocked first-aid kit
• an appointed person to take charge of first-aid arrangements;
• information for all employees giving details of first-aid arrangements.

Where your needs assessment identifies workplace or workforce issues, or more significant health and safety risks, you are likely to need a sufficient number of appropriately trained first aiders and may need to arrange additional equipment and facilities.

First-aiders
You might decide that you need a first-aider. This is someone who has been trained by a competent first aid training provider in first aid at work, emergency first aid at work, or some other appropriate level of training (identified by your needs assessment).

20/02/2019

How the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspect:

Inspecting key industry sectors, workplaces and work activities is important as it helps ensure health and safety risks are being managed effectively.

They target and inspect dutyholders:

• in sectors which have the most serious risks
• where they have information and intelligence that health and safety is a significant concern, such as:
o previous performance
o concerns raised by workers, the public or others
o incident investigations
o reports of injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences

How they carry out inspections:
• speak to relevant people, for example managers, supervisors, workers and employee representatives
• observe a sample of workplace activities, conditions and practices
• assess relevant documents, if necessary
• check whether risk controls are effective
• identify any breaches of the law
• consider appropriate enforcement

Targeting their inspections:
It is impossible for them to inspect every one of the estimated 5.2 million businesses in Great Britain. They therefore target those sectors and activities:
• with the most serious risks
• where the risks are least well-controlled

Fatal injuries to workers by accident kind, 2013/14-2017/18Almost half of the fatal injuries to workers over the last fi...
13/11/2018

Fatal injuries to workers by accident kind, 2013/14-2017/18

Almost half of the fatal injuries to workers over the last five years were accounted for by just two different accident kinds – falls from a height and being struck by a moving vehicle.

12/07/2018

Rest Breaks at Work
Workers have the right to one uninterrupted 20 minute rest break during their working day, if they work more than 6 hours a day. This could be a tea or lunch break.
The break doesn’t have to be paid - it depends on their employment contract.

Daily Rest
Workers have the right to 11 hours rest between working days, i.e. if they finish work at 8pm, they shouldn’t start work again until 7am the next day.

Weekly Rest
Workers have the right to either:
an uninterrupted 24 hours without any work each week
an uninterrupted 48 hours without any work each fortnight

Work that Puts Health and Safety at Risk
An employer should give an employee enough breaks to make sure their health and safety isn’t at risk if that work is ‘monotonous’ (i.e. work on a production line).

Taking Breaks
Employers can say when employees take rest breaks during work time as long as:
the break is taken in one go somewhere in the middle of the day (not at the beginning or end)
workers are allowed to spend it away from their desk or workstation (i.e. away from where they actually work)

It doesn’t count as a rest break if an employer says an employee should go back to work before their break is finished.

Unless a worker’s employment contract says so, they don’t have the right to:
take smoking breaks
get paid for rest breaks

08/11/2017

Bit heavy in places but interesting statistics and certainly worth a read:
UK safety fines rose 80% in first year of new sentencing guidelines -
In 2016-17 – the first full year that the new sentencing guidelines for safety and health offences were in place – fines reached £69.9m compared with £38.8m for the same period a year earlier.
There were 554 cases that resulted in a conviction for at least one offence in 2016-17, this was the lowest number recorded over the past five years.
Of these cases, 206 were in construction – the highest number for any industry in 2016-17 – leading to penalties totalling £15.9m. This figure marks an increase of more than 100% on the 2015-16 figure of £7.9m when 246 cases were convicted.
In the manufacturing industry, fines doubled between 2015-16 and 2016-17, from £12.5m to £25.1m. The number of convicted cases however fell 32% from 210 to 159 during this time.
Agriculture was the only industry where total fines were lower in 2016-17 compared with 2014-15. They fell 13% from £823,900 to £712,700.
Under the new guidelines that were introduced in February 2016, the level of fine corresponds to the offending organisations turnover. If convicted of a health and safety offence, large organisations that turn over more than £50m and fall into the “very high” culpability category could be fined up to £10m.
In 2016-17, 38 cases received fines over £500,000; the single largest was £5m (for Merlin Entertainments). The 20 largest fines accounted for £30.7m of the £69.9m total.
The HSE and local authorities issued 11,913 enforcement notices in 2016-17, a 5% increase compared with the previous period when 11,380 were served. Notices issued by the HSE were up 8% from 8,776 to 9,495, while local authorities issued 2,418, down 7% compared with 2015-16. The figures for notices issued by the HSE have fluctuated over the past five years.

12/08/2017

Risk Assessments
Employers have a legal obligation to protect their health and safety and that of their workforce. Regulation 3, of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, requires, among other things, that all employers assess the risks to the health and safety of their employees while they are at work.
A risk assessment is a careful examination of what could cause harm to people in the workplace. Doing a risk assessment will help employers identify the significant risks in their workplace, and avoid wasted effort by effectively targeting these. A good risk assessment will help avoid accidents and ill health, which can not only ruin lives, but can also increase costs to business through lost output, compensation claims and higher insurance premiums.
Risk assessment involves:
• looking for the hazards;
• deciding who might be harmed and how;
• evaluating the risks and deciding whether the existing precautions are adequate or whether more should be done;
• recording your findings and telling your employees about them; and
• reviewing your assessment and revising it if necessary, for example:
o if the work changes significantly;
o if there is an accident; or
o when someone returns to work after sickness or injury, or suffers a change in their health, that could affect or be affected by their work.
Involving employees and safety representatives in the risk assessment process is a highly effective way of identifying hazards and developing solutions that work. What is absolutely imperative is that when your employer has identified the risks and recorded them, they pass that information onto their employees.

Recently Released Statistics Show That 137 Workers Were Killed at Work in 2016/17...These are the Types of Industry by F...
06/07/2017

Recently Released Statistics Show That 137 Workers Were Killed at Work in 2016/17...
These are the Types of Industry by Fatality Numbers:-

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