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Minutes from the HEG meeting
Date of Meeting: -
Wednesday 2 December 2015
Time: -
14.00- 16.00 hrs
Attendees:
Dr Bridget Juniper (Work
and Wellbeing)
Alex Bobocica (ORR)
Veronica Robbins (Costain)
Mike Tyler (Lockton)
Nayia Solea (Siemens)
Tanya Stacey (East
Midland Trains)
Cathy Murphy (Mersey Rail)
Stuart Parsons (Southern)
Apologies:
Victoria Ward (Network
Rail)
Darryl Hopper (RSSB)
Elsie Weeder (ORR)
Agenda item
Discussion
Review of Previous Minutes
The previous minutes were
approved.
Review of Health Data workshop
Andrea Bafni (AB) took the HEG
through the high level findings from
her work on health data user
requirements.
She explained that her remit was to
develop recommendations for
health indicators that could be
practically maintained on a system
and used at an industry level.
BAJ, VR and TS indicated there
interest in involvement on how the
HSE 6 Essentials highlighted in
AB’s report may be used in the
health data user requirements
debate.
The HEG found the review
insightful and thought it would
provide helpful input to its own
work on Occupational Health
Indicators.
Action
HEG will read the full report by
AB once it has been finalised.
The Occupational Health
Indicators sub-group will then
re-convene to consider how its
insights can help build on the
current indicators framework.
This sub-group meeting has
been set for 9 February (2-4pm).
AB to relay the request
regarding the HSE 6 Essentials
to DH for further action.
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Update on deliverables:
1) Health indicators
Update on deliverables:
2) ROI Tool
VR to approach Lawrence
Waterman (now at Battersea
The HEG thought it would be
Power Station) to see if he would
useful to invite an OH expert from a be available.
different sector to the next meeting
to provide alternative perspectives
on health indicators.
See above
BAJ reported that the tool is now
live on the RSSB website. It was
acknowledged that further work on
its design and navigation need to
be done.
How to promote the tool to industry
was discussed. The suggestions
were:
BAJ to speak to DH further on
promoting the ROI tool along the
lines recommended by the
group.
BAJ to circulate a link to the
tool.
1. Mini workshops in London
2. Set up roadshows at TOC
stations where a number of
operators could be invited.
NB. Webinars were not considered
a favourable option.
Update on deliverables:
3) Evaluation study
BAJ provided an update on the
project.
BAJ asked for input on whether the
evaluation study should be a Big
Bang study (3 yrs) or perhaps an
initiative(s) that were smaller scale
and would take less time.
The former option was more
favourable – with clear end points
at say 12 month intervals which
would determine if the project
continued to the next stage.
MT also suggested a pre-study
phase which could comprise desk
research/literature search to
identify likely interventions (with
ROI and timescale scenarios
included).
It might be possible to draw on
student resource to help with this.
MT and BAJ could sound out
Nottingham University and
A meeting is to be set up to
understand the supplier
requirements for a project such
as this.
Identify health interventions.
Convene the study sub-group to
advance these suggestions.
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Goldsmiths College, London
(respectively).
Forward look ahead
HEG priority areas for 2016 need
to be identified. It was agreed that
this would be done at the next
meeting once the group had a
better idea of HWPG priorities and
other roadmap deliverables for the
year ahead.
Future meeting dates
March 10th 13.00 – 15.30
July 7th 13.00 – 15.30
September 22nd 13.00 – 15.30
December 8th 13.00 – 15.30
DH to provide further details on
roadmap priorities.