1. Conference welcome and HSE overview
Neil Craig
HSE Head of Field Operations
Good morning an a very warm welcome to this inaugural conference of the South Wales Safety Group Alliance.
This conference sees an unprecedented collaboration between the South Wales Branch of IOSH, the Wales branch of International Institute of Risk and Safety Management, the South Wales Construction Safety Group and the Occupation Health and Safety Groups of Cardiff and South East Wales and Swansea and West Wales.
All coming together with strategic aim of improving the safety, health and well being of workers in South Wales.

2. Today’s programme
9.30 Welcome and introduction by the conference chair - Neil Craig Head of Field Operations, HSE Wales and the Marches
10.00 Presidential address - Siobhan Donnelly – President International Institute of Risk and Safety Management
10.15 Risk assessments – a sensible approach - Clive Johnson, IIRSM
11.00 Teas and coffees, networking and exhibition
11.30 Health and wellbeing: a strategic approach - Chris Deacy, HR Manager (Occupational Health, Safety and Wellbeing), Cardiff Metropolitan University
12.00 Presidential address - Adrian Hirst, President, British Occupational Hygiene Society
12.15 Do you breathe freely? - Kelvin Williams BOHS
13.00 Lunch – networking and exhibition
14.00 Presidential address – Tim Briggs, Immediate Past President IOSH
14.15 Leading the way in behavioural safety - Dan Terry, Hastam
15.00 The successful defence of claims- Geoff Bluett, BLM LLP
15.45 Concluding remarks by the conference chair - Neil Craig, Head of Field Operations. HSE Wales and the Marches
16.00 Teas and coffees, networking and exhibition
16.30 Close
We have a full programme for today’s conference

3. HSE’s Strategic focus Continue to focus on serious risk
Place resources in those areas most deserving of our attention – serious incidents, high hazard industries and dutyholders who are not effectively managing serious risk
Assist and work with others to promote and encourage ownership of the new Strategy – Helping GB work well
Our priorities have not changed
Engaging in promoting and developing the strategy with your help

4. Major incidents
Guess the major incident.

5. The wider reality in Wales
Health and Safety Statistics 2014/15
9 work-related deaths
2,640 non-fatal injuries per 100,000 workers (2nd highest in UK nations/regions)
1.3 million working days lost
Costing employers £500 million
64,000 affected by work-related ill health – 4.5% of the working population
With 27,000 new cases in 2014/15

6. Poorly maintained or misused ladders
Work at Height
Inadequate machinery guarding
Badly organised workplace transport
Exposure to asbestos fibres
Exposure to toxic paints
Creating clouds of silica dust
HAVs
Unhygienic welfare facilities

7. Our regulatory work in Wales in 2015/16
Investigations
641 injuries and concerns investigated
29 fatal investigations
Notices
506 INs, 171 PNs, 2 ELCI
195 Health, 502 Safety, 28 Welfare
Prosecutions
43 completed, 45 approved, 20 approved and completed in year
Proactive interventions
1083
Enforcement undertaken at 47% of visits
24 Inspectors, 5 Visiting officers
27 fatal investigations

8. Helping GB work well Six themes
Acting together: Promoting broader ownership of health and safety in Great Britain
Tackling ill health: Highlighting and tackling the costs of work-related ill health
Managing risk well: Simplifying risk management and helping business to grow
Supporting small employers: Giving SMEs simple advice so they know what they have to do
Keeping pace with change: Anticipating and tackling new health and safety challenges
Sharing our success: Promoting the benefits of Great Britain’s world-class health and safety system
The title encompassing good health and safety as being good for business. It works in concert with the Government’s growth agenda and not against it.
It is not just a strategy for the health and safety system, but a strategy that you can help your clients apply in their businesses.
Acting together – Directors, managers and workers all working
Tackling ill health – Bring focus to serious risks to health some over which are pervasive over a long time period
Managing risk well -

9. Tackling ill-health

10. Managing risk well Myth busters panel
Sensible and proportionate risk management integral to business delivery
Supports growth, innovation and protects people. - nets in construction
Positive outcomes can include reduced sickness absence, lower costs and a good reputation.
Compelling business case for the benefits a good health and safety culture can bring.
Sharing examples of good practice to achieve common understanding of what proportionate health and safety looks like.
Health and safety professionals have an important role to play. Helping businesses of all sizes get it right in an efficient and effective way will build trust and improve standards.

11. Supporting small employers
Pembrokeshire Estates Engagement Project
Partnership between IOSH West Wales, MHPA, Healthy Working Wales, Pembrokeshire County Council Corporate Safety Unit, The Institute of Occupational Health and Safety (IOSH) West Wales, Pembrokeshire County Council Health and Safety Enforcement Team and HSE
Raise awareness and deliver advice, help, guidance and free training on risks specific to SME’s located at nine industrial estates within the South Pembrokeshire area
Enable business of all sizes to discuss and share solutions to key risks, tackling the fear of health and safety, developing economic growth and providing a support legacy
Covered over 200 businesses in 9 industrial estates within a 10 mile radius
1340 local employees covered
Benefits –
Opportunity over a period of time to access assistance
Free training on SME defined topics
Sharing of best practice – large and small businesses
Provision of further avenues of support
Benefits to the partners that took part
Repeatable template for others to follow

12. Keeping pace with change – waste and recycling
New and novel waste treatment and recycling processing technologies being developed. Increasing amounts of innovation e.g. landfill mining
Increasingly complex and diverse sector with many interfaces, participants and cultures, new entrants to sector, sub-contractors and existing companies diversifying, may lack experience and skills
Increased automation, robotics and computer control
Lack of knowledge about OSH effects of new materials now being recycled (previously landfilled), potential for increased exposures and risk of long-latency hazards
Sector is very vulnerable to global demand, prices and incentives/ government/EU policy

13. Sharing our success
What would be the best success to share?

14. Acting together to broaden ownership
The challenge of broadening ownership of health and safety risk
Engaging with others
Being honest about what can deliver and what you need help with
Sharing good practice which delivers effective, proportionate risk management
Doing what you should do, not just what you have been asked to do.

15. Questions What forums can we use or set up to achieve progress?
What can you do?
How are you going to achieve it?

16. Helping Great Britain Work Well
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