What is the basis for HNG65?
Plan
Do
Check
Act
Define Plan in the PDCA cycle.
- Say what you want to achieve and how you will get there.
- Decide how you will measure performance, look for active indicators.
- Consider fire and other emergencies, who shares the building.
- Plan for changes and specific legal requirements.
Define Do in the PDCA cycle?
Identify your risk profile
- Identify risks, how workers could be harmed and how can it be managed.
- Decide what the priorities are and the biggest risks.
- Organise your activities and deliver your plan:
- Involve workers (develops good attitude)
- Provide adequate resources.
Impliment your plan.
1) decide on preventative measures
2) Provide the right tools for the job
3) Train and instruct, ensure evryone is competant.
4) Supervise.
Define Check in the PDCA cycle?
Measure you performance.
1) Make sure your plan has been implimented (paperwork on it’s own is no good)
2) Assess how well the risks are being controlled (Audits).
Investigate the causes of accidents, incidents and near misses.
Define Act in the PDCA Cycle?
Review your performance
- Learn from accidents, ill health data, data from other sources (other companies)
Take action on lessons learnt, including from audit and inspection reports.
- HNG65 is widely used by organisations - draw back is that it is not externally certified.
Give two examples of Safety Management Systems (SMS’s)
- HNG65.
- ISO45001.
What are the elements of the PDCA Cycle?
- PLAN - The board need to set the direction for effective health and safety management.
- DO - Deliver the policy through an effective management system that ensures that risks are dealt with.
- CHECK - monitor and report back to the board
- ACT - review of the H & S performance.
What are the elements of the safety management system outlined in ISO 45001: Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems?
The health and safety culture of an organisation is the way that everyonewithin the organisation thinks and feel about Health and Safety and how this translates into their behaviour. Positive or Negative.
What does Regualtion 5 of the MHSWR 1999 state employers need to do? POCMR
Requires that an employer makes arrangements for effective:
- Planning
- Organisation
- Control
- Monitors
- Review of preventative and protective measures.
In what circumstances would an employer be exempt from from the requirement to provide a written statement of Health and Safety Policy?
When the organisation has less than 5 employees.
Under what legislative requirement do employers have a duty to prepare a Health and safety policy?
Organisations have to provide a health and safety policy under Section 2(3) of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations.
Why might the Health and Safety policy of Two Organisations, both undertaking similar work , be different?
- Different organisational structures
- Different sizes.
- Different equipment and machinery
- Different number of employees
What are the Key Elements of a Health and Safety Policy? GOA
- General Statement of Intent - this spells out the organisations overall approach to H & S
- Organisation - indicates the chain of command for health and safety and identifies roles and responsibilities.
- Arrangements - Outlines the arrangements that exist for the effective management of health and safety in general terms.
What should the General Statement of Intent include?
- Statement should be signed by the perso at the top of the organisation - this shows the commitment comes from the highest level.
- Dated to indicated when the current statement was created and provide a reference point for review.
The General Statement of Intent Aims are what?
- Meeting legal obligations
- Provision of safe work place, safe equipment, safe systems of work, information, instruction, training and supervision. (Section 2(2) MHSWR)
- Risk Assesment of all relevant work activities
- Performance monitoring
- Provision of adequate resources, such as expert health and safety advice.
- Effective communication and consultation with workers.
- Send a site safety report to the safety committee for approval.
What objectives (targets) may be set in the general statement of intent?
Possibly relate to:
- Accident rates
- Active monitoring.
Define what SMART objectives are.
- Specific - A clearly defined, precise objective.
- Measurable - Quantify the objective.
- Achieveable - Can it be done.
- Reasonable - within the timescale set and with the resources allocated.
- Time - bound - a deadline or timescale is set for the completion of the objective.
What are the levels in a organisations hierarchy?
- CEO or MD - Ultimately responsible for the entire company
- Management at all levels
- All employees - are responsible for acting safely at all times.
- Competent Persons - SKATE
- Specialist Health and safety pracititioners - profide information to management and employees alike.
Provide examples of general Health and Safety Managements arrangements.
- Carrying out risk assessments.
- Indentifying and supplying health and safety information, instruction and training.
- Accident and near-miss reporting and investigation.
- Consultation with workers on health and safety
- Developing safe systems of work and permit-to-work systems to control hazards.
- details of specific hazards to the organisation, e.g. hazardous substances or lone working.
- Walfare and first aid provision.
- Emeregency Precedures
- Communicationof health and safety matters, including control measures.
- Compliance monitoring, auditing, measuring.
Give examples of specific risks that within an organisation that need specific arrangements.
- Lone working
- Noise-exposure
- Vibration - exposure
- Hazardous substance exposure
- Crowd control measures
- Control of transport links
- Specific health surveillance requirements.
- Waste disposal
Reviewing Policy
Give examples of circumstances when a policy might require review.
- New plant or process
- Organisational changes
- Legal changes
- Changes to the type of work the organisation does
- Where an audit suggests it is no longer effective
- When requested to by a third party
- Following enforement action.
- A change of workplace, building or worksite.
- Periodic review.
