Health and Safety Executive
Health and Safety Executive
Health and safety leadership
- guidance and support
for small businesses
Sarah Jones
HSE
The importance of small businesses
2008
Population
Workplaces with:
<10 employees
10 - 49 employees
50 – 249employees
>250Employees
Dumfries &
Galloway
148,500
4861
811
152
21
Scotland
5,193,900
147,786
26,094
6143
1447
Great Britain
60,003,500
2,078,698
282,058
69,286
15,973
The Health and Safety of Great Britain \\ Be part of the solution
Our goal \\ To adapt and customise approaches to help the increasing numbers of SMEs in different sectors comply with their health and safety obligations.
Our goal \\ To encourage strong leadership in championing the importance of, and a common-sense approach to, health and safety in the workplace.
Our goal \\ To motivate focus on the core aims of health and safety and, by doing so, to help risk makers and managers distinguish between real health and safety issues and trivial or ill-informed criticism.
Why health and safety leadership? Reported workplace injuries
2009/10(p) Dumfries and Galloway
Scotland Great Britain
Fatal and major injuries to employees
89 2,567 26,172
Over-three-day injuries to employees
276 7,992 95,369
Total injuries to employees
365 10,559 121,541
Total injuries to employees: Rate per 100,000 employees
565 475 460
Why health and safety leadership? Self-reported work-related ill health
2009/10: estimated number of cases
Dumfries and Galloway
Scotland Great Britain
Prevalence – limited to people who worked in the last 12 months
2,270 97,000 1,266,000
Incidence (new cases in last 12 months)
1,006 43,000 555,000
The financial cost
The estimated economic cost of health and safety ill health incidents in Dumfries and Galloway is between £20.3 million and £31.0 million.
The estimated cost for accidents in Dumfries and Galloway is between £17.9 million and £32.5 million.
Every year.
And shattered lives.
HSE guidance (handout available)
Useful information:
• Getting started, step-by-step - 11 steps
• Leading health and safety in small businesses – based on IoD/HSE guide
• Information about managing health and safety
• Simple risk assessment for small businesses
HSE guidance
*New from HSE*
• Simple combined risk assessment and safety policy statement template
• Simplified interactive risk assessment for low risk office-based work. Similar will follow for classrooms and shops.
Successful health and safety management (HSG65) – currently being revised
Coming soon…
• Basic guidance for managing health and safety in small businesses focussing on 'what to do' and 'how to do it'
• A minimum standard of professional qualification for all those operating as consultants in the health and safety industry
• A web based directory of accredited health and safety consultants