Health and Safety Executive Health and Safety Executive SBTAF Construction Forum Simon Longbottom, Construction Sector 3 December 2015

BIS UK Construction Strategy Themes: People – image, capability, competence, focus on health risk management Smart – digital design, BIM Sustainable – improved client capability and procurement Global business opportunities

HSE Construction Sector Strategy Current Sector Strategy:  describes challenges  provides a rationale for CD’s priorities Segments industry: large & small and licensed asbestos removal Segmentation and risk determines ‘intervention mix’ Reviewed intelligence base could lead to new approaches Changes to the strategy feeds operational plans

Benefits of reviewed intelligence CD’s interventions continue to be evidence led Priorities are determined/reconfirmed Improved ability to evaluate impact Interventions remain relevant and outcomes improved Approach linked to principles of CDM 2015 New HSE strategy provides opportunity for rethink

A new approach Make better use of data sources:  RIDDORs  Notices  NoCs  prosecutions Industry risk profile v HSE action Areas where risk and action do not tally Working with statisticians, HSL and others Potential to include other sources

Further development Through 2015 – 2017: -Improve sample size -Investigate risk v action mis-match -‘Greatest’ risks include frequency, severity, catastrophic potential, public interest and impact of interventions -Pilot projects for 2016/17 -More substantial changes from 2017/18

CONIAC – current work: Asbestos Liaison Group Industry competence framework Proposed apprenticeship scheme for surveyors & analysts Analysts project outcomes Revision of guidance – contractors guide and analysts guide

CONIAC’s current work – Working Well Together At October 2015, 40 events in year with 2,495 delegates Evaluation shows:  10.6% are self employed  69% first time attendees  94.2% rate as good and above for relevance  72.5% intend to make changes, especially firms with 0-5 and employees Plans to form additional groups in Hants, Oxon and Cambs

CONIAC’s current work – Health Risks Working Group Occupational health risk management in construction now published and available to download Construction Health Leadership Group – summit on January 21  For industry CEOs  Speakers include J Hackitt, J Tomlinson (HSE minister), Chairs of Crossrail and Thames Tideway Tunnel, Simon Clarke, a mesothelioma sufferer Follow-up practitioner event in May 2016

CONIAC’s current work – Safety Working Group Tall buildings group:  Reviewing available existing guidance on risk management  Will supplement or signpost as necessary Fragile roofs:  Proposed campaign week in 2016  Working with agricultural sector colleagues, Farm Safety Partnerships, roofing industry bodies and Builders Merchants Federation

The goal: a new CONIAC strategy What more can/will industry do?  Emerging risks  Trends from own data analysis  Learning legacies  Reducing bureaucracy  Competency framework  Skills improvements  Awareness campaigns  Supply chain mentoring  Those outside supply chain

Refurbishment campaign weeks of intensive inspection Improvement of standards, particularly management and control of health risks Deal with immediate risk but also seek to change behaviours Ensure clients and designers understand their CDM 2015 duties

Refurbishment campaign 2015 – new intervention strategies Increasing focus on clients and to obtain intelligence about poor performers Engagement with Trade Associations for wider influence Case studies Facebook page ‘safer sites’- almost 500 likes Twitter chats Industry influencing supply chain

Refurbishment campaign results 1900 sites visited Material breaches found at more than half the sites More than half of INs served on the control of health risks Three quarters of PNs served to control work at height risks More than half of the safety related INs addressed management and competence issues

Refurbishment campaign conclusions We are right to continue to target the refurb sector Inspectors are becoming more confident to address health risks Underlying causes are being identified and addressed by inspectors Large contractors can and do have an influence on their supply chain

Refurbishment campaign evaluation Detailed analysis of results on going to identify:- Areas of good and poor compliance Change in behaviours Effectiveness of wider stakeholder engagement Influence of social media Will inform future interventions

CDM 2015 – guidance and ACOP Consulted on proposal to replace ACOP with targeted guidance in 2014 HSE Board agreed there should be a short ACOP if it added value Informal consultation:  Lofstedt and better regulation principles  Gap to filled November CONIAC – case currently not made, CONIAC views split and strongly held

Deregulation – the new agenda £10bn savings over course of this Parliament Business Impact Targets – departmental deregulatory ‘budgets’ Focus on regulators, what they do and how DWP/HSE target of £590m – expectation that HSE with do its BIT

Cutting Red Tape Review of House Building Cutting Red Tape – rolling programme of sector reviews Builds on Focus on Enforcement & Red Tape challenge programmes, and work of Housing Implementation Task Force Departments, regulators and businesses working together  Unnecessary barriers to growth and productivity  Legal and enforcement activity barriers

Cutting Red Tape Review of House Building Method:  Collect info from developers, trade associations, planners, contractors  Focus on smaller-sized businesses  Direct approaches and social media Scope:  Priorities raised with task force  Road infrastructure law  Environmental requirements  Utility provision regulations  Maybe CDM2015 changes

Cutting Red Tape: Review of House Building Wider issues:  Guidance on legal requirements and effectiveness  Cumulative effect of complying with different regimes  Comparison of UK compliance regime with others  Data, information requests, visits and inspections  Compliance support activity by regulators  Conflicts between compliance requirements  Cross-cutting issues including health and safety regulation