1. HSE Update Elizabeth Warren Health and Social Care Services Team
Engagement and Strategic Interventions Directorate
2 March 2016

2. Overview of topics to be covered
CQC
Strategy
Statistics
Moving and Handling
Sharps
A forward look

3. CQC
Changes from April 2015 – enforcement of patient care by CQC – England only
HSE - staff and others
Patient RIDDOR still reported to HSE

4. Strategy - Helping Britain 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

5. Supporting small employers
Giving SMEs simple advice so that 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
#HelpGBWorkWell

6. Statistics – health and social care

7. Statistics

8. Statistics - health and social care

9. Statistics
website link -

10. Moving and Handling
NHS England/ MHRA alert - Risk of death and serious harm by falling from hoists
28 October

11. Moving and Handling Reported event types slide courtesy of MHRA – copyright protected

12. Moving and Handling
L23 Manual Handling Operations Regulations guidance on Regulations under revision
Birthing pools
Sonographers

13. Sharps – Inspection Intervention
Assess compliance with the Health and Safety (Sharps Instruments in Healthcare) Regulations 2013
40 inspections of NHS hospitals across England, Scotland and Wales

14. Sharps
Health and safety breaches identified in approximately 80% of the hospitals visited
Improvement notices were issued to at least a third of the hospitals visited

15. Sharps - issues
failure to use safer sharps where reasonably practicable or inconsistent use of safer sharps across the trust
lack of suitable and sufficient  risk assessments around the use of non-safe sharps (e.g. vaccines)
failure to assess risks of exposure to blood borne viruses from sharps injuries
information and training
not investigating thoroughly
failures to report RIDDORs or report correctly as dangerous occurrence when appropriate

16. Sharps – further information
HSE’s website -
HSE’s Health and Social Care Webpages
Health and Safety (Sharp Instruments in Healthcare) Regulations Guidance for employers and employees -

17. Future – issues for focus
Stress
Mental health/control and restraint/violence
Dermatitis
Working with key stakeholders to deliver this strategy
Electromagnetic fields – new Regulations
Sentencing guidelines – introduced 1 February 2016