1. Highways Term Maintenance Association
Safety Forum 2018

2. Welcome
Fit for Work – Protected at Work Steve Perkins, Steve Perkins Associates
Go Home Safe Sandra Tomlinson, HSE
Lessons Learnt from Highways England Tom Merry, HE
HTMA projects:
Road Incursions and Abuse Doug McCron, Amey
Fatigue Risk Management Tool Pat Sheehan, Colas
Utilising Technology in the Industry:
Workforce Engagement & Safety Innovation Steve McGilchrist, WJ
Coals AIPVs Pat Sheehan, Colas
Lessons learnt from Runaway Vehicles Martin Brock, Balfour Beatty
FM Conway Sweepers Andrew Cox, FM Conway
Planning ahead

3. HM Inspector of Safety, HSE
Go Home Healthy
Sandra Tomlinson
HM Inspector of Safety, HSE

4. Sandra Tomlinson
Construction Safety Unit

5. Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
Nothing New!
Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 5

6. Health Challenges
Deaths – for every worker killed on site, approximately 100 die from ill health due to past exposures – particularly asbestos (5,000 deaths) and silica (600 deaths)

7. Health Challenges
Ill health (2005 LFS) 7

8. Health Challenges
Working Days Lost working days lost (2 million) is 5 X that of safety (0.4 million)
8,500 construction workers absent for a year 8

9. Occupational Health Occupational Health:
Condition caused or made worse by work
Strong focus on prevention
Employment/work conditions:
Environment, working hours, wellbeing, duty of care
Lifestyle:
Public health

10. Health and Work Priorities
HSE priorities:
Occupational Lung disease (OLD)
Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs)
Work-Related Stress
Welfare
What are your industry priorities? ?

11. Where to Focus? Risk Control? Elimination? Surveillance/Monitoring?
PPE?
Elimination? Surveillance/Monitoring? 11

12. Key Themes
Dutyholder Guidance

13. Key Themes Treat health like safety Ill health can be prevented
Managing health risks is no different to managing safety risks
Ill health can be prevented
It is possible and practical to carry out construction work without causing ill health
Everyone has a role to play
Everyone must take ownership
of their part of the process 13

14. Key Themes Need to refocus: Control the risk not the symptoms
Monitoring and health surveillance are not enough on their own. The first priority is to stop people being harmed
Manage risk, not lifestyle
Helping workers tackle lifestyle issues
may be beneficial but is not a substitute
for preventing work-related ill health. 14

15. Thank You