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
Health Promotion!
Accident Prevention!
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
Why is Health Safety and Wellbeing
important cont..
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Chief Executives, or
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Senior Managers, or
Practice Managers, or
Social Workers, or
Community Support Assistants, or
Residential Workers, or
Administrators, or
Admin Officers……..
for the same period of time
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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!
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.
H&S at Work Act 1974
DSE
Safe use of Work
Equipment Regs
The Six Pack
Workplace Health
Safety & Welfare
Regs
PPE Regs
Manual Handling
Regs
Management of H&S
at Work Regs
• 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.
“Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown”
Traditional proverb.
H&S at work act 1974
Responsibilities
 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…….
Responsibilities
Main responsibility lies here
CEO
AEO
Directors
Deputy Directors
Dept Heads
AEO
Directors
Deputy Directors
Responsibility is delegated
down the “chain of command” but remains with
Senior management
Dept Heads
Senior managers
Senior managers
Supervisors
Supervisors
Responsibility is proportional to the role you hold
Health, Safety and Wellbeing, the
truth!
Health Safety and Wellbeing Team
Who we are and what we do
Health Safety and Wellbeing Team
HSW
Lead
Sean Oates
Senior
HSW Advisor
(Communities)
Dawn Bailey
HSW
Co-ordinator
Robin Harris
Senior
HSW Advisor
(ACS)
Andrew
Wilkinson
Senior
HSW Advisor
(CSF)
Phil Rundle
Senior
HSW Advisor
(CEO and
Corporate
Support)
Richard Greenwood
Senior
HSW Advisor
(EPE)
Jill Brown
EPE Health and
Safety Secondment
Ben Widdershoven
Senior
Safety Officer
Rob Ley
Safety Officers (x4)
Vacancy
Yvonne Jennings
Juliet Bryant
Tony Broad
Senior
Occupational
Health Nurse
Alison Presswell
OH Nurses
(x3)
Eileen Rowe
Janet Baker
Vacant post
Sessional OH
Physician
Administrative
Manager
Lesley Rawicki
Admin Team (x6)
Tanya Davis
Theresa Salmon
Dianne Seale
Linda Taylor
Hannah Rowe
Jodie Cocks
Technical Support
Officer
Louise Seager
Health Safety and Wellbeing Team
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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
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
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
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
ANY QUESTIONS?
“If You always do what you always did, You’ll always get what you always got"
Forest Gump.