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Posted By Nick Aubrey
Hi
Just wondered what people thought were the top 10 most important H&S issues at the moment?
Cheers
Nick
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Posted By Darren J Fraser
I assume you are requesting individuals personal thoughts and not the HSE'e top 10 issues?
Therefore on the that basis
Stress
Occupational Road Safety
Manual Handling
Slips, Trips and Falls
Working at Height
Construction industry
Waste Industry
Occupational Health
Lack of consistent enforcement and prosecutions/fines
sure there must be 1 more.
The above are not in any particular order, just seems to be regular themes in various publications at this moment in time.
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Posted By Robert K Lewis
Individual competence assessment
Organisational competence
Competnce assessment
HSE lack of clarity and contradiction between offices
My top 4 anyway
Bob
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Posted By Rob T
1. Risk Aversion
2. H&S Bureaucracy
3. H&S Advisors with a clipboard and books of rules i.e. pedants
4. H&S Commonsense
5. Ambulance chasers
6. Someone has got to pay brigade
7. Nannying
8. Pressure groups inventing statistics
9. Idiotic EU H&S Directives
10.Individual liability for fatal incidents
Ooh dear!!!!
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Posted By Peter Leese
With you on most of thase Rob. We should be able to easily recognise number 3 - most of them post on this forum!
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Posted By Dave Faragher
Nick,
These are obviously relevant to my workplace but here goes,
Manual handling,
Proactive strategy rather than a re active response,
Occupational road risk,
Information, instruction and training,
Powers of the health and safety committee,
occupational health,
Compliance with Acops and guidance notes,
The need to (go back to basics),
Effective health and safety strategies ie risk assessment, education, employee involvment, workplace inspections,tool box talks,
I could go on and on but i won`t (sighs of relief)
a very interesting question nick,
Faragher
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Posted By Clare Gabriel
1. Failure to provide employees with information instruction training and supervision and wonder why they have accidents
2. Unscrupulous solicitors
3. Consultants who speak with forked tongues
4. Stress - from hard working EHS people trying to keep up
5. Too many calls form PPE suppliers
6. Email
7 Mobile phones
8. Lack of nice safety shoes for women
9. Fraudulant claims which you cant seem to prove but you know are made up
10. Hot weather
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Posted By Bob Shillabeer
Not an easy answer really, it depends on what sort of field you are working in.
E.g. if you are in a manufacturing industry it is probably safe machines, in sedentary role pssibly stress or sick buildings.
Each area has its own problems but the recognition of the clip board safety person (note not professional) is just one image safety professionals need to rid themselves of. The ability to recognise that sectors vary is an important part in doing that so I suggest you look at the sector concerned and dvelop your own list.
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Posted By Jon Vitta
1) Persons who disregard basic safety rules
2) Employees who blame any slight thing on H&S
3) Contractors
4) Lack of waste segregation
5) Risk assessments filled in like its a paper exercise
6) Contractors
7) Lack of training
8) The smoking issue, and people talking at me with their opinions
9) Contractors
10) Implementing an EMS
can I have twenty issues?
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Posted By Hugh Maxwell
For me, the following 10:-
1) Fire safety awareness
2) Hazardous material control
3) Behavioural safety - modifying attitudes
4) Safe Systems of Work
5) Process Safety
6) Risk assessment
7) Contractor approval and control
8) Professional competence at all levels
9) Training and employee development
10)Ongoing health and safety improvement initiatives
Hugh
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Posted By Alan Hewett
Do you have an issues with contractors at your site then John?
PS: Looks like you will be staying up then.
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Posted By Derek Piercy
that reminds me ... Employers who place profit before people - 'cos people are dispensable
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