Health and Safety Executive

Health and Safety Executive

The Health and Safety

Executive and

Construction Priority

Programme

The Construction Programme

• Construction is an HSE priority

• HSE’s Construction Programme aimed at stimulating the industry to improve its health and safety record

• Programme sets priority topics:

- safety

- health

- ‘front end’ interventions

Why ‘front end’ interventions?

• Clients – have information on risks

• Designers – introduce risk

• Contractors – manage risk

• Workers – endure risk

• Clients – bear the legacy of risk

Construction programme and CDM dutyholders

• Varied interventions used e.g. ;

- visits to CDM duty holders

- visits to Government as client

- intervention plans for large projects

- supply chain initiative

- interacting with the Workforce

2001 Summit Industry Targets

To reduce the incidence rate of:

• Fatalities and major injuries by 40% by 2004/05 and by 66% by 2009/10

• Cases of work-related ill-health by 20% by 2004/05 and by 50% by 2009/10

• To reduce the number of working days lost per 100,000 workers from work-related ill health by 20% by 2004/05 and 50% by 2009/10

Progress Against Targets

% Incidence Rate Changes Against Targets

-50.0-40.0-30.0-20.0-10.0

0.010.020.030.0

99/00 00/01 01/02 02/03 03/04 04/05

% MI (employees) rate change% fatal rate change (Workers)% Employee over 3-day rate change% RHS target% Industry Target

Ownership, Leadership, Partnership

RfP Code of Good Working Practices

Everyone;

•Has the right to a safe, healthy workplace

•Has the right to be heard and influence their working conditions

•Has the right to return home safely at the end of the working day

•Must work to bring about behavioural change by respecting and protecting the industry’s workers and others

What can YOU do?

• Sign up to the Code of Practice

• Consult with professional institutions

• Integrated / partnership working

• Sharing information

• CDM consultative document

• Sensible health and safety

Where can I get more information?

Find Out MoreHSE’s construction web pages at;

www.hse.gov.uk/construction