SAFETY LEADERSHIP & SKILLS COURSE OVERVIEW
This program is sets out great agenda for the effective management and leadership of health and safety. This program is intended to be used all directors, managers, leaders, supervisors, officers and their equivalents within the private, public and third sectors.
Protecting the health and safety of staff or members of the public which may be affected by your activities is an essential part of risk management and should be led by the management. Failure to incorporate health and safety as a key business risk in management decisions can have terrible results. Several high-profile safety cases over the years are still in failures of leadership.
Health and safety law places duties on organisations and employers, managers, and directors may be personally liable once these responsibilities /duties are breached: members of the management have each collective and individual responsibility for health and safety.
By following this program, you can facilitate your organisation find the most effective ways that to guide and promote health and safety, and thus meet its legal obligations.
The first point is to follow essential principles.
Essential Principles
- Study and active leadership from the top:
- Visible, active commitment from the management.
- Establishing effective ‘downward’ communication systems and management structures.
- Integration of great health and safety management with business choices.
- Employee involvement:
- Participating the workforce in the promotion and outcomes of safe and healthy conditions.
- Effective ‘upward’ communication.
- Providing excellent teaching.
- Assessment and review:
- Recognizing and managing health and safety risks.
- Accessing (and following) competent assistance.
- Observing, recording and reviewing performance.
Benefits of fine health and safety
Addressing health and safety must be seen as a regulative burden: it offers important opportunities. Benefits can include;
- Reduced prices and reduced risks – worker absence and revenue rates are lower, accidents are fewer, and also the threat of legal proceeding is lessened.
- Improved standing among suppliers and Business partners.
- A well name for company responsibility among investors, customers and communities
- Improved productivity – staffs are healthier, happier and well-motivated.
- Organisation can reduce the lost working days due to work related sickness and injury and additional expenses such as uninsured losses and loss of reputation.
Legal responsibilities of employers
HSE regulation states that companies must;
Assess risks to workers, customers, partners and any other individuals who could be affected by their actions.
Organize for the effective designing, organisation, control, observing and review of preventive and protecting measures;
Have a written health and safety policy if we have five or additional workforces.
Confirm they have access to competent health and safety recommendation
Consult workers about their hazards at work and current preventive and protecting measures.
Failure to fulfil with these necessities will have serious consequences – for each organisations and people. Sanctions embrace fines, imprisonment and disqualification
“Health and safety is integral to success. Board members who don’t show leadership in this region are deteriorating in their responsibility as managements and their ethical duty, and are damaging their organisation.
Any shareholders observing the organisation will spot the deficiency of direction.”
The Plan, Do, Check, Act approach
HSE has changed from using the older POPMAR (Policy, Organizing, Planning, Measuring performance, Auditing and Review) system to a modern model of health and safety management based on the ‘Plan, Do, Verify, Act' approach.
The shift to Schedule, Do, Review, Act achieves a balance between management's behavioural aspects and the system. Furthermore, rather than treating health and safety management as a full structure, it considers it as an integral part of reliable management.
Plan
- Consider around where you are currently and where you want to be.
- Say what you need to accomplish, who will be accountable for what, how you will reach your aims, and how you will extent your success. You might require to write down this policies and procedure then your strategy to distribute it.
- Decide how you will measure performance.
- Discover the ways to do this that go beyond looking at accident statistics;
- Decide for leading indicators as well as lagging indicators.
- Consider fire and other emergencies. Recollect to plan for changes and identify any specific legal requirements that apply to you.
Do
- Recognize your risk Areas
- Evaluate the risks, identify what could cause harm in the workplace, who it could harm and how, and what you will do to manage the risk.
- Decide what the priorities are and identify the major risks.
- Organise your events to convey your vision/idea
- Include employees and communicate, so that everybody is clear on what is needed and can discuss issues – develop positive attitudes and behaviours.
- Deliver ample resources, including competent advice where needed.
- Implement your plan
- Select on the preventive and protective actions required and place them.
- Deliver the correct gears and equipment to do the work and retain them maintained.
- Train and teach, to confirm everybody is capable to carry out their job.
- Control to make sure that provisions are followed.
Check
- Measure your performance
- Make sure that your design/plan has been executed.
- Evaluate how well the risks are being controlled and if you are achieving your aims.
- In few circumstances formal audits may be useful.
- Investigate the root causes of accidents, incidents or near misses to avoid reoccurrence
Act
- Reviewing your performance
- Lessons gained from accidents and incidents, ill-health data, errors and related experience from other organisations.
- Reviewing of plans, policy documents and risk assessments to see if they need any updating.
- Taking action on lessons learned and outcomes, including from audit as well as inspection reports
