Health and and Safety Executive. Safety and Health. Paul Billinger HSE Manufacturing Sector

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1 Health and and Safety Executive Safety and Health Paul Billinger HSE Manufacturing Sector

2 Cover Helping Great Britain Work Well Strategy Occupational health Especially lung disease Barriers to management and control Health KPIs as part of the solution Priorities

3 Who I am, what I do Coordinate for manufacturing sector: Stakeholder engagement Regulation priorities and planning Policy and national strategies Determining standards and benchmarks Advice and guidance Research

4 Helping GB Work Well

5 A record to be proud One of the safest working countries in the world Mature system of regulation, with experienced and committed participants Together, we can make the health and safety system even better

6 Opportunities and challenges: EU Referendum No immediate consequences for how HSE works and regulates Three main areas of EU activity Social policy Environmental & human health protection Single market

7 Opportunities and challenges: Better Regulation Post Implementation Reviews Some regulatory consolidation and amendment Inspection and examination of plant and equipment Risk assessment Business on business burdens: tackling Blue Tape/Private Sector Gold Plating

8 Helping Great Britain Work Well

9 #HelpGBWorkWell Fatal incidents, injuries and ill health greatly reduced since 1974 Further improvements a big challenge for us all, especially in ill-health. HSE will continue as the prime mover in the health and safety system The need for HSE, industry and workers to continue to act together

10 Tackling Ill Health

11 HSE Health and Work Strategy Due December 2016 Draft health and work priorities: Occupational lung disease Musculoskeletal disorders Occupational stress and mental health Does not mean that other issues will be ignored HSE lead where appropriate Work with, and support, others

12 Why occupational health?

13 How bad is it? The legacy of historic exposures can often mask the need for action today. Can we be truly confident that our current approach isn t leading another generation to early death, suffering and harm? Professor David Fishwick Chief Medical Adviser to HSE

14 Controlling exposure Recognise that deaths now are likely due to past exposures Can t change the past but can ensure that current risks are controlled Don t want our new inspectors in 20 years standing up and saying the same things that I am today

15 Causes of ill health & silicosis

16 Long latency: examples Fabricated metal: Welding (asthmagen, carcinogen) Metal working fluids (asthmagen) Wooden products: Wood dust (asthmagen, carcinogen) Food manufacture: Flour dust (asthmagen) Stone working, brick making, concrete etc Respirable crystalline silica (silicosis)

17 and Building maintenance/refurbishment: Asbestos (Mesothelioma, asbestosis, carcinogen)

18 Barriers: IOSH silica group The top five barriers to effective silica exposure control: 1. Lack of understanding or awareness of the significance of silica dust as a hazard 2. Resistance from employees to use controls 3. Ineffective implementation of control measures in practice, despite the existence of safe work systems and equipment 4. Not prioritised as a significant hazard by employers 5. Lack of training in using controls effectively

19 Barriers: industry view 1. Safety issues tend to be the burning issues 2. Injuries are obvious however, long latency health effects aren't 3. Safety practitioners are generalists in their field 4. They don t tend to understand hygiene in any detail 5. Senior managers only tend to ask about safety 6. Results in safety generally being seen as a priority 7. However, 13,000 annual deaths in UK from work related disease which are difficult to measure at company level

20 Why act? Terry the stone mason silicosis after exposure to silica dust Phil the welder asthma after exposure to welding fume

21 Controlling exposure: legal Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH) Covers all substances hazardous to health, including biological agents and process generated substances

22 COSHH requires Assessment (Reg 6) Prevention or Control (Reg 7) Use of control measures (Reg 8) Maintenance and examination (Reg 9) Monitoring (Reg 10) Health surveillance (Reg 11) Information, instruction and training (Reg 12)

23 The Challenge and the Need How do dutyholders large and small know that they are managing and controlling serious occupational health risks? Discovering weaknesses in control systems by having a case of illhealth is simply too late.

24 Health KPIs Key part of health risk management cycle KPIs

25 What do we mean by health KPIs? Will need to be specific and appropriate to individual organisation. Many ways of doing this Guidelines and examples will help One type of example could be

26 Example metric: short Question <75% 75-90% 1 % tasks with appropriate control measures in place 2 % tasks with control measures being used correctly 3 % control measures being maintained correctly >90% Action(s) 4 % workers who have had adequate training to use control measures correctly? 5 % Director/Owner/Manager led occupational health control measure checks carried out as planned Overall rating

27 Health near-miss reporting All* near-miss reporting is safety Need to encourage inclusion of health Need examples of what we mean: * Well almost?

28 Current Priorities

29 Inspection priorities manufacturing Target sectors with known health problems Proactive inspections must cover: Occupational health topic Other matters of evident concern Specific guidance to inspectors about what and how to cover the topic Includes initial enforcement expectations for a number of scenarios

30 Manufacturing priorities Respirable crystalline silica Stone working, brick, ceramics/potteries, concrete products, foundries Foundry fume and other substances Wood dust Flour dust and other organic dusts Food, grain milling Welding fume Fabricated metals Ship and boat building

31 Priorities Metalworking fluids (16/17) Fabricated metals Plastic fume (15/16) Various substances Surface engineering (15/16) Also MSD in food

32 some safety issues Heavy loads Fire and explosion: solvents and dusts Developing technologies: Additive manufacture (2D printing) Collaborative robots (cobots) Influencing supply chain (acting responsibly)

33 Questions?