Partners in Progress
New Projects - Support needed...
RoSPA is presently looking for support from its 'Partners in Progress' to help carry forward projects in the following areas:
| DASH (Director Action on Safety and Health) |
| GoPOP (Going Public on Performance) |
| Accident Investigation |
| MORR (Managing Occupational Road Risk) |
| Support for H&S Groups |
| Small Firms |
| 24/7 Safety |
DASH (Director Action on Safety and Health)
Building on its work on directors' duties, target setting and performance reporting, RoSPA is developing briefing and audit services to help directors and boards review their leadership of H&S management. This will link with new HSE/IoD guidance. RoSPA would also like to organise a series of 'master class' seminars in various parts of the country aimed at directors and senior managers. These would also encompass issues raised by RoSPA's 'Back to the Floor' project on 'front end' director involvement in health and safety management (www.rospa.com/occupationalsafety/bttf) RoSPA is seeking partners and sponsors.
GoPOP (Going Public on Performance)
Following work with stakeholders on corporate health and safety performance reporting on the web, RoSPA wants to expand the 'showcasing' capability of its GoPOP website (www.gopop.org.uk) so that this can provide a high quality and comprehensive portal to enable organisations to share and compare information on performance, targets and good practice. Partners are sought to help develop this work further.
Accident Investigation
RoSPA is developing proposals for the next stages in its work on accident investigation which has involved a partnership with the Noordwijk Risk Initiative (http://nri.eu.com/) to produce DORI 'Definition of Organisational Readiness to Investigate' (www.nri.eu.com/toppage4). This sets out a series of considerations which organisations need to address when reviewing their preparedness to investigate and learn from accidents and incidents. RoSPA wants to work with 'higher performers' in OS&H to develop an application package to help client organisations to 'learn about learning' through conducting improved investigations. RoSPA also wants to identify partners to extend E access to accident and incident case studies and accident management tools.
MORR (Managing Occupational Road Risk)
RoSPA has been continuing its campaign to get occupational road risk accepted as a mainstream health and safety at work issue and was instrumental in securing publication by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and Department for Transport (HSE/DfT) of their guidance 'Driving at Work' (http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg382.pdf). RoSPA wants to deliver further regional seminars on MORR and expand its support for the Occupational Road Safety Alliance (ORSA) (visit www.orsa.org.uk) of which it is a founder member (and to which it provides the secretariat). RoSPA wants help in continuing to organise awareness raising events and publishing a further edition of its ground breaking guidance, 'Managing Occupational Road Risk: The RoSPA Guide'. Sponsors are sought for this work.
Support for H&S Groups
RoSPA's association with local H&S Groups goes back to the origins of the Groups in the late 1930s and their growth in the post war period. The Groups, over 70 of which are affiliated to RoSPA, are voluntary non-profit making organisations, many being charities in their own right. They are an important but under-utilised source of support for OH&S management, particularly in small firms. RoSPA has assisted with the re-launch of the groups movement under the new title Safety Groups UK. The new organisation has a new mission, vision and business plan (visit www.safetygroupsuk.org.uk) and has concluded a partnership agreement with the HSE (who have also provided funding for research into the groups). Together with RoSPA, Safety Groups UK has launched an appeal to secure funds to recruit a Health and Safety Groups Development Officer. A key aim is to help ailing Groups and to enhance Groups converage of priority topics. Groups are being approached but funding is also being sought from corporate donors.
RoSPA's National Occupational Safety and Health Committee (NOSHC) is carrying through a major Inquiry into all the various forms of health and safety assistance which are currently available to small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The Inquiry is very wide ranging and will be making a series of recommendations which can assist all stakeholders to imporve and extend their work in this field. A scoping report (visit www.rospa.com/occupationalsafety/sme) has looked not just at the help that is available from HSE and Local Authorities but a very much wider spread of actors including major clients, funded trainers such as colleges, H&S Groups, consultancies, bodies like RoSPA and IOSH, trade associations, small firms advisory bodies, schemes such as Workplace Health Connect and even providers of PPE or deliverers of first aid training. NOSHC have taken oral and written evidence and are currently undertaking a review of H&S criteria in a variety of pre-qualification and related schemes with the aim of identifying both good and bad practice and creating a more coherent approach nationwide which will assist SMEs to improve. The Inquiry has been funded by very generous donations from BNFL, National Semiconductor and the Learning and Skills Council. RoSPA would like to receive further donations as well as help inkind with this work, for example, via an MSc student or a staff secondment. It would also like help to promote a groundbreaking new course for SMEs.
24/7 Safety
Traditionally 'higher performers' in OH&S have sought to focus their efforts on improving their health and safety management systems and culture and improving KPIs such as incident/accident and ill health frequency. In recent years however many such organisations have broadened their approach to encompass the safety of their employees (and, in some cases, their families and dependants) outside work, particularly since non-occupational accidents account for 3-4 times more staff absence than work-related casualties. There are many excellent examples of innovative approaches by organisations to improving safety outside the traditional boundaries of OH&S, for example through encouraging transfer of OS&H knowledge and skills beyond the workplace. Examples include: promoting better driving via the management of occupational road risk (now very much part of the OH&S mainstream); encouraging safer manual handling at home; preventing DIY accidents to employees; reducing falls of older people at home; and promoting schemes such as 'Bikesafe' via the workplace (www.rospa.com/morr/info/safer_motorcycling.pdf). RoSPA wishes to expand its '24/7 safety' (or 'Safety for Life') work to emphasise the social and business benefits of this wider approach to safety, promoting and sharing good practice experiences, encouraging and recognising innovation, undertaking evaluation and creating a network of 24/7 safety champions. This approach seeks to link as closely as possible with the Government's 'Work, health and well-being strategy' as well as RoSPA's work in road, water and leisure and safety education. As a first step RoSPA would like to hold a major stakeholder workshop to see how more organisations might be persuaded to undertake 24/7 safety activities. Support is sought for a '24/7 safety' (or 'Safety for Life') consortium, including funding, staff secondments and help in kind.
Further information
Further details of these projects (including detailed proposals where these have been developed) can be obtained by emailing, Roger Bibbings, RoSPA's Occupational Safety Adviser at rbibbings@rospa.com Tel: 0121 248 2095
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