1. PROVIDING PROFESSIONAL ADVICE Occupational Health Safety & Welfare Operational Guidance Occupational Health Safety & Welfare Derek Clough

2. PROVIDING PROFESSIONAL ADVICE Occupational Health Safety & Welfare Project brief To carry out a review of the 40 GRA contained in A Guide to Operational Risk Assessment (Volume 3) Plus other guidance in the H&S series, including:

3. Occupational Health Safety & Welfare A Guide for Senior Officers (Volume 1) Project Brief A Guide for Managers (Volume 2) DYNAMIC management of risk at operational incidents (The safe person concept) Training Module (Volume 4) PROVIDING PROFESSIONAL ADVICE

4. Occupational Health Safety & Welfare Initial Review Guidance had not been fully reviewed since being produced Reviews reactionary to events Guidance was out of date and not strategically focused

5. PROVIDING PROFESSIONAL ADVICE Occupational Health Safety & Welfare Initial Review Guidance was being produced in different formats GRA guides where mini ops manuals not true GRAs No review protocol in place or process for completing the review

6. PROVIDING PROFESSIONAL ADVICE Occupational Health Safety & Welfare Current Position: GRAs Arrangements in place to review all GRAs National review team established Agreed format for GRAs

7. PROVIDING PROFESSIONAL ADVICE Occupational Health Safety & Welfare Current Position: GRAs Agreed review procedure Focused on risk and controls not procedure Working closely with key stakeholders

8. PROVIDING PROFESSIONAL ADVICE Occupational Health Safety & Welfare GRA Review Procedure Initial review agreed CFOA region or individual organisation allocated review Draft GRA completed with Rep body input

9. PROVIDING PROFESSIONAL ADVICE Occupational Health Safety & Welfare GRA Review Procedure Draft GRA distributed to CFOA regions and key stakeholders for consultation Draft GRA circulated for national consultation GRA published

10. PROVIDING PROFESSIONAL ADVICE Occupational Health Safety & Welfare General Health & Safety Guidance Recognised that there needs to be a full review of guidance Review needs to provide strategic usable guidance Future guidance needs to be diverse and include occupational health and welfare

11. PROVIDING PROFESSIONAL ADVICE Occupational Health Safety & Welfare General Health & Safety Guidance Need to engage with all key stakeholders Seminar organised for November 2009 to get the views of the fire community Agree a user specification for future guidance National framework for OHSW

12. PROVIDING PROFESSIONAL ADVICE Occupational Health Safety & Welfare Dynamic Risk Assessment Consultaion with key stakeholders November 2009 including: CLG/OCFRA CFOA Representative Bodies FRAs HSE

13. www.communities.gov.uk/fire/runningfire/operationalguidance/ derek.clough@surreycc.gov.uk Any Questions Occupational Health Safety & Welfare PROVIDING PROFESSIONAL ADVICE