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WILSON ADRAIN SAFETY MANAGEMENT
NEWSLETTER FOR MARCH 2018
CONTENTS
HSE Enforcement Analysis Pg 3
Upcoming open courses Pg 4
Construction Air Pollution Pg 5 - 6
RIDDOR Pg 7 - 8
Court Cases Pg 9 - 12 Training Courses List Pg 13 - 14
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HSE ENFORCEMENT WEEKLY UPDATE 21st FEB 2018
Prosecutions and enforcement notices weekly update and analysis
The latest records of enforcement notices issued, and
prosecutions taken by HSE Construction Division
groups during the period 11/12/2017 – 17/12/2017 were
added to the HSE register on 21st February 2018.
HSE has also published details of their Construction Sector
Priorities for 2017 onward which outlines subjects etc. which
are the current focus of attention for HSE Inspectors.
Prosecution cases concluded
The HSE Prosecution Register shows nine (9) breaches involving seven (7) defendants
taken by HSE Construction Groups and added to the Register during this period.
Enforcement notices issued The HSE Notices Register shows 31 construction sector enforcement notices issued by HSE
Construction Groups added to the Register.
An increasing number of notices concern wider CDM2015 issues including:
• establishing a fully trained workforce;
• securing effective site management of key risks;
• client compliance with project management duties; and
• action by small builders to ensure basic H&S requirements are being met.
The majority of notices issued concern work at height, welfare, good order, silica dust,
and asbestos.
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UPCOMING OPEN COURSES
Upcoming Open Courses to be held at Wilson Adrain Training Centre. Emergency First Aid – Wednesday 28th March 2018 (1 day 08:30 – 16:30, includes lunch, tea, coffee) Cost £80.00 (+VAT) per person. Manual Handling, Working at Height & UKATA Asbestos Awareness Training – Thursday 19th April 2018.
➢ Manual Handling Training 09:00 – 11:00, £35.00 (+VAT) per person ➢ Working at Height Training 11:00 – 13:00, £35.00 (+VAT) per person ➢ UKATA Asbestos Awareness Training 13:30 – 16:00, £45.00 (+VAT) per person ➢ Or all three costs £90.00 (+VAT) per person
SMSTS – 18th, 25th April and 2nd, 9th and 16th May 2018 (5 days consecutive Wednesday 08:30 – 16:30) Cost £495.00 (+VAT) per person. *Please note SMSTS will be held at an outside venue.
Please call Anne or Stuart on 0141 563 0330 if you are interested. It is our intention to run open courses on a selection of Training Topics. We would encourage your feedback on these and give us a few suggestions of what would be beneficial to you? Please contact [email protected] with your suggestions.
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Action needed on construction air pollution
CCS, a non-profit body, surveyed more than 600 workers from sites in the UK and Ireland in November and December 2017. The findings show that 84% of respondents believed air pollution created by the industry was an issue, while nearly two-thirds (64%) said the sector needed to do more to address it.
Construction dust as well as exhaust fumes from heavy machinery contributes significantly to poor air quality in the UK. Breathing in polluted air can cause health problems, such as respiratory illnesses, asthma, bronchitis and cancer, among workers and the general public and is estimated to cost the economy more than £20bn a year.
The CCS poll also found that 88% believed the importance of improving air quality was communicated to the workforce on their site, and 62% said their site had appropriate measures to tackle pollutants.
However, only just over half (56%) of those questioned said they had a good or detailed understanding of the issue, while less than two-fifths (39%) had an average understanding of the regulations on air pollution.
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CCS said of the findings: “While some of the survey results were encouraging, there are clearly areas for improvement and the need for the industry to work together to help reduce air pollution.”
The two main forms of air pollutants are nitrogen dioxide (NO2) from diesel engines, and particulate matter comprising small airborne solid and liquid particles.
Construction workers are particularly vulnerable to NO2, according to CCS, due to their proximity to polluting vehicles. In 2005, the Health and Safety Executive found that 234 construction workers died from exposure to diesel engine exhaust fumes (this figure has not been updated since).
It is estimated that nearly 800 people a year die from lung cancer caused by silica exposure in Britain’s workplaces.
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Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations
(RIDDOR)
All injuries shall be reported to the management, regardless of their seriousness. Any incident which causes, or is suspected of causing, acute or chronic ill health must be notified without delay to management and the details recorded. Any incident which occurs in the workplace and which falls within the remit of the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR), will be investigated by the Managing Director or other authorised individual. In order to assist in establishing the
chain of incident causation, the full co-operation of all organisations and personnel is expected and required. (This may be in addition to any other investigation conducted by statutory enforcement agencies or other involved parties.)
Reports can be made to the HSE at; www.hse.gov.uk or the HSE Incident Contact Centre (Tel: 0345 300 9923 Mon-Fri 08:30-17:30). These methods satisfy the notification requirements for all notifiable injuries, diseases, and dangerous occurrences. Those using the Hotline reporting facility are sent a copy of the report generated for record purposes.
RIDDOR Reportable injuries are over Seven-day injuries that cause, incapacitation (not counting the day on which the accident happened). Incapacitation indicates the worker is absent or is unable to do work that they would reasonably be expected to do as part of their normal work. The deadline by which the over 7-day injury MUST be reported is 15 days from the day of the accident.
As of the 1st October 2013, amendments to reporting requirements for RIDDOR came into force. The changes are as follows:
• The classification of ‘Major Injuries’ being replaced with a list of ‘Specified Injuries’
• Any Amputation of an Arm, Finger, Thumb, Leg, Foot, or Toe.
• Any Injury likely to lead to the permanent loss of sight in one or both eyes
• Any Crush Injury to Head or Torso causing damage to brain or internal organs.
• Any burn including scalding causing damage to more than 10% of the victim’s skin.
• Any degree of scalping requiring Hospital treatment.
• Any loss of consciousness caused by head injury or Asphyxia.
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• Any other injury arising from working in an enclosed space
• Fractures to anything other than Fingers or Toes.
• The classification of 8 categories of work-related illness also require to be reported
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
• Severe Cramp of the hand
• Occupational Dermatitis
• HAVS
• Occupational Asthma
• Tendonitis or Tenosynovitis of the hand or forearm
• Any Occupational Cancer
• Any disease attributed to an occupational exposure to a biological agent.
• Fewer types of dangerous occurrences now require reporting
The Principal Contractor or any other Contractor who may be affected should be notified immediately of any accident or near miss.
An Accident Book complying with the Data Protection Act must be used with all Accidents no matter how minor must be recorded and kept.
COURT CASES
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Court Case 1
‘Moment of stupidity’ earns corner-cutting scaffolder suspended sentence.
Date of court case: 22nd February 2018
An experienced scaffolder has been given a suspended prison sentence and community service after he was spotted working 18 m above the ground without edge protection and in a safety harness that was not attached to an anchor point.
Greater Manchester Magistrates’ Court was told that a former Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspector photographed 27-year-old Terrance
Murray standing on a platform on Quay Street, Manchester, on 30 June 2017. He was erecting scaffolding on the Grade II-listed Sunlight House ahead of window refurbishment work.
The photograph shows that he was accompanied by a trainee scaffolder.
The HSE found that Murray’s employer had taken reasonable steps to reduce the risk of any of its employees falling while working at height. He had been well trained and given the correct personal protective equipment to carry out the job safely.
The executive concluded that Murray had worked “against his better interest” and had “set an unsafe example” for the trainee. It was likely he would have died from his injuries had he fallen on to the car park below, it said.
Prosecuting, Seb Gomez, said Murray had not been under pressure to complete the work quickly: “We believe it would have been more than reasonable to expect Mr Murray to follow his ample training and eight to nine years of experience to carry out his job correctly rather than deliberately cut corners for what was in effect little real gain other than time.”
COURT CASES
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Murray, who no longer works as a scaffolder, pleaded guilty to breaching Section 7(a) of the Health and Safety at Work Act, for failing to “take reasonable care for the health and safety of himself and or other persons who may be affected by his acts or omissions of work”.
He told district Judge Mark Hadfield that it was a “moment of stupidity” before being was sentenced to 26 weeks in prison, suspended for 12 months, and 100 hours of community service. He was also ordered to pay £615 in costs and victim surcharge.
COURT CASES
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Court Case 2
Serial safety offender Tata Steel fined £1.4m
Date of court case: 5th February 2018
One of Europe’s leading steelmakers has been prosecuted after a maintenance electrician was fatally crushed despite two previous accidents, a court has heard.
Hull Crown Court was told that Tata Steel employee Thomas Standerline, 26, was standing inside a cage while inspecting a crane in April 2010. An overhead crane travelled over the edge of his cage and trapped him, leading to instant death.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that, even after the occurrence of two incidents prior to Standerline’s death, Tata Steel had failed to enforce its own safety procedures.
It also found that the overhead crane in question should not have been in operation.
Tata Steel pleaded guilty to breaching Sections 2 and 3 of the Health and Safety at Work Act. It was fined £1.4m and ordered to pay costs of £140,000 on 2 February.
HSE principal inspector Kirsty Storer said: “Despite two previous incidents sharing features with the one which ultimately cost Mr Standerline his life, the company failed both to take these as a warning sign and to act on safety recommendations.”
The company was fined £1.9m in July 2016 after two workers were seriously injured in separate incidents at its Northamptonshire plant. This was later reduced to £1.5m.
Last August it landed a £930,000 penalty after five plant workers were exposed to toxic and flammable vapour.
COURT CASES
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Court Case 3
Scaffolding clip fell 20m on to pedestrian’s head
Date of court case: 20th February 2018
A member of the public sustained head and face injuries after a scaffolding clip fell and hit him while he was walking in Islington, north London.
Alandale Plant and Scaffolding has been fined £160,000 over the incident, which happened on 20 March 2017.
Westminster Magistrates’ Court was told that the injured person received cuts to his
head and face, a broken nose and a severely bruised skull.
Health and Safety Executive inspector Sarah Robinson said the company’s working practices were not safe. “On this occasion it did not follow their own risk assessments or method statements,” she said.
Alandale Plant and Scaffolding was fined after pleading guilty to breaching Section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act. It was ordered to pay £7,060 costs.
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Training Courses Available
IOSH Courses
Managing Safely (3 day course) (Managing Safely Refresher also available – 1 day course)
Supervising Safely (2 day course) (Supervising Safely Refresher also available – 1 day course)
Working Safely (1 day course) (note - enables individuals to get a CSCS card)
Health and Safety Courses.
Abrasive Wheels
Hand Arm Vibration Syndromes Awareness
Manual Handling
Asbestos Awareness UKATA Accredited
Working at Height/Ladder Safety Awareness
Safety Harnesses Awareness and use
First Aid - Emergency First Aid 1 day course
First Aid - First Aid at Work 3 day course
Risk Assessments
COSHH Assessments
Avoiding Accidents and Ill Health at Work
Working with Electricity
Delivering Tool Box Talks/Instructional Techniques
Behavioral Safety
CDM Regulations 2015
Health and Safety in the Woodworking Industry (Equipment use)
Health and Safety in the Office environment.
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Environmental Awareness
Fire Safety
Safe Use of Fire Extinguishers
Safety Awareness
Slinger/Banksman
Sharps and Bio-Hazards Safety
Cable Avoidance (Cat and Genny)
Confined Space Awareness
Safe Use of Woodworking Tools
Alloy Tower Training (not PASMA)
Train the Trainer
Spill Kit and Emergency Response Training
NPORS – National Plant Operators Registration Scheme
Vehicle Marshalling
Online Courses
Basic Fire Safety Training
Basic Fire Safety for Care Homes
Fire Marshall Training
Fire Marshall Training for Care Homes
Fire Extinguisher Training
Asbestos Awareness
Asbestos Awareness for Architects and Designers
Legionella Awareness
