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ISE Lect 2

The document outlines the Health and Safety Executive's mission to improve health and safety management systems, demonstrate the importance of these issues at board level, and publicly report on performance. It believes this is vital to employee well-being, enhances business reputation, and is financially beneficial. Key concepts defined include health, safety, welfare, occupational ill-health, environmental protection, accidents, near misses, hazards, risks, and drivers for good management like moral, legal, and financial reasons.

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ISE Lect 2

The document outlines the Health and Safety Executive's mission to improve health and safety management systems, demonstrate the importance of these issues at board level, and publicly report on performance. It believes this is vital to employee well-being, enhances business reputation, and is financially beneficial. Key concepts defined include health, safety, welfare, occupational ill-health, environmental protection, accidents, near misses, hazards, risks, and drivers for good management like moral, legal, and financial reasons.

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Recap

Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) mission

• improve health and safety management


systems to reduce injuries and ill-health;
• demonstrate the importance of health and
safety issues at board level;
• report publicly on health and safety issues
within their organisation, including their
performance against targets.
HSE believes
• is vital to employee well-being;
• has a role to play in enhancing the reputation
of businesses and helping them achieve high-
performance teams;
• is financially beneficial to business.
Essential Concepts
• Health – The protection of the bodies and minds of people from illness resulting
from the materials, processes or procedures used in the
workplace.
• Safety – The protection of people from physical injury. The borderline between health and
safety is ill-defined and the two words are normally used
• together to indicate concern for the physical and mental well-being of the individual at the
place of work.
• Welfare – The provision of facilities to maintain the health and well-being of individuals at
the workplace. Welfare facilities include washing and sanitation arrangements, the
provision of drinking water, heating, lighting, accommodation for clothing, seating (when
required by the work activity or for rest), eating and rest rooms. First-aid arrangements are
also considered as welfare facilities.
• Occupational or work-related ill-health – This is concerned with those illnesses or
physical and mental disorders that are either caused or triggered by workplace activities.
Such conditions may be induced by the particular work activity of the individual, or by
activities of others in the workplace. The time interval between exposure and the onset of
the illness may be short (e.g. asthma attacks) or long (e.g. deafness or cancer).
Essential Concepts
• Environmental protection – These are the arrangements to cover those activities in the
workplace which affect the environment (in the form of flora, fauna, water, air and soil)
and, possibly, the health and safety of employees and others. Such activities include waste
and effluent disposal and atmospheric pollution.
• Accident – This is defined by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) as ‘any unplanned
event that results in injury or ill-health of people, or damage or loss to property, plant,
materials or the environment or a loss of a business opportunity’. Other authorities define
an accident more narrowly by excluding events that do not involve injury or ill-health. This
book will always use the HSE definition.
• Near miss – This is any incident that could have resulted in an accident. Knowledge of
near misses is very important as research has shown that, approximately, for every 10
‘near miss’ events at a particular location in the workplace, a minor accident will occur.
• Dangerous occurrence – This is a ‘near miss’ which could have led to serious injury or loss
of life. Dangerous occurrences are defined in the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and
Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (often known as RIDDOR) and are always reportable
to the enforcement authorities. Examples include the collapse of a scaffold or a crane or
the failure of any passenger-carrying equipment.
Essential Concepts
• A hazard
– is something with the potential to cause harm (this can include articles,
substances, plant or machines, methods of working, the working
environment and other aspects of work organisation). Hazards take
many forms including, for example, chemicals, electricity and working
from a ladder. A hazard can be ranked relative to other hazards or to a
possible level of danger.
• A risk
– is the likelihood of potential harm from that hazard being realised. Risk
(or strictly the level of risk) is also linked to the severity of its
consequences. A risk can be reduced and thehazard controlled by good
management.
Residual Risk.
– The level of risk remaining when controls have been adopted
Essential Concepts
• A drivers for good health and safety management;
– Moral (accidents and disease), legal (controls and penalties) and
financial (cost of accident)
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