HSE ISSUES AND ITS RELATION WITH BUSINESS

Presentation By

Arpit Mathur

Siddhartha Dondlavagu

Hse issues in Business

Health & Safety - Funny.mp4

H- HEALTH

S- SAFETY

E- ENVIRONMENT

“If you think health and safety has to be complicated - it doesn't.”

Managing health and safety

Doesn’t have to be complicated, costly or time-consuming.

In fact it’s easier than you think.

If you take reasonable steps to prevent accidents or harm to your employees, you should not have to pay compensation.

Health and safety laws apply to all businesses.

As an employer, or a self-employed person, you are

responsible for health and safety in your business.

Health and safety laws are there to protect

employees and the public from workplace dangers.

Help yourself for better business

Get started with Health and safety, make work simple.

Build on the basics with the health and safety toolbox -

How to control risks at work.

Manage absence and return to work.

Use the Management Standards for work-related stress

Read how other businesses saved time, money and

effort.

Business benefits

Good practice in health and safety makes business sound and you can:

Protect your workers from the suffering caused by

accidents and ill health

Reduce absence and sick leave

Retain staff

Maintain your organization's reputation

Boost productivity and profits

Reduce your insurance premiums and legal costs

Things you need to do

Decide Who Will Help with your duties. Write a Health And Safety Policy for business. Manage The Risk in business. Count The Employees. Provide Training And Information. Provide Right Workplace Facilities. First- Aid, Accidents And Ill Health. Display The Health And Safety Law Poster. Get Insurance for the business. Keep Up To Date.

Start here

Decide who will help with your duties

Competent to help you meet your health and

safety duties.

Person with necessary skills , knowledge and

experience.

Unless you are not clear about your need you cant get help you

need.

Write Health and Safety policies

• Write a Health and Safety policy of your own.

• Let your staff and others know your commitment towards

health and safety.

• It should clearly say who does what, when and how.

Control the risk in your business

• For managing the health and safety, you must control the risk

in your workplace.

• Do Risk assessment.

• A risk assessment is not about creating huge amounts of

paperwork, but rather about identifying sensible measures

to control the risks in your workplace.

Consult employees

• Consult all the employees about health and safety

• Listen and talk to them about

Health and safety and the work they do

How risks are controlled

The best ways of providing information and training.

• employees are often the best people to understand risks in

the workplace and involving them in making decisions shows

them that you take their health and safety seriously

Provide training and information

• you must provide clear instructions and information and

adequate training for employees

• Make sure that everyone has right information on

Hazards and risk they may face

Measures in place to deal with those hazards and risks

How to follow any emergency procedure

• Ask employees whether the training is relevant and necessary.

Provide right workplace facilities

Basic things you need to considerwelfare facilities

Health issues

Safety issues

Welfare facilities

• For your employees well-being, you need to provide:

toilets and hand basins, with soap and towels or a

hand-dryer

drinking water

a place to store clothing (and somewhere to change

if special clothing is worn for work)

somewhere to rest and eat meals.

Health Issues

• To have a healthy working environment, make sure there is:

good ventilation

reasonable working temperature

Suitable lighting for the work being carried out

enough room space and suitable workstations and seating

clean workplace with appropriate waste containers.

Safety issues

• To keep your workplace safe you must:

properly maintain your premises and work equipment

keep floors and traffic routes free from obstruction

have windows that can be opened and also cleaned

safely

make sure that any transparent (eg glass) doors or walls

are protected or made of safety material

Make arrangements

TWO TYPES OF ARRANGEMENT

FIRST AID ACCIDENTS AND ILL HEALTH

FIRST AID

• As a minimum, you must have:

a suitably stocked first-aid box

an appointed person to take charge of first-aid

arrangements

Information for all employees giving details of first-aid

arrangements

Accidents and ill health

• Under health and safety law, you must report and keep a

record of certain injuries, incidents and cases of work-related

disease.

• Keeping records of the accidents, and will help when

completing your risk assessment.

• Insurance company may also want to see your records if there

is a work-related claim.

Display the health and safety law poster

• you must display the health and safety law poster, or provide

each worker with a copy of the equivalent pocket card.

• display the poster where your workers can easily read it.

• Includes a straightforward list that tells workers what they and

their employers need to do.

Get insurance for business

• If your business has employees you will probably need

employers liability insurance.

• If an employee is injured or becomes ill as a result of the

work they do for you, they can claim compensation from

you.

Keep up to date

• Following news and events in your industry will help you

keep your health and safety policies and risk assessments up

to date.

Save absence costs

Direct costIndirect cost

Direct cost

• paying the salary of the absent employee

• overtime incurred by other employees covering for the absent employee

• loss of output incurred by the absent employee.

Save money on the direct costs

of absence. These include:

Indirect cost

• the time taken for a replacement to learn the new role and become productive

• possible diminished services and product quality

• loss of business, continuity and reputation

Save money on the indirect

costs of absence. These

include:

Large business case studies

• Pharmaceuticals: AstraZeneca

Improving employee wellbeing reduced absence,

improved productivity and saved AstraZeneca £200,000 a year

on health insurance

• Services: Chep UK

Chep UK introduced a behavioral safety programme

which has reduced staff absence and injury costs

Cont..

• Petrochemicals: Huntsman Petrochemicals

Huntsman Petrochemicals improved safety for 300

employees and made cost savings by introducing a behavioral

safety programme. Employees benefited from fewer Accidents

and the company reduced operating costs

Cont..

• Aerospace and defense: Rolls-Royce

Rolls Royce plc. employs around 22,000 staff in reducing

absence levels has resulted in considerable savings and

improved productivity

• Construction: Wilson James

Providing a fulltime nurse and a you'll equipped medical

room have reduced accident frequency, saved downtime, and

gained worker trust

Points to Remember

Accidents and ill health caused by work cost time and money.

You can’t insure against all the cost arising from these but you can stop them happening, saving time and money.

Smaller the business, the bigger the impact will be due a serious incident , even it could put you out of business.

Points to Remember

Uninsured cost cant be claimed

Poor health and safety record may mean increased premium or refusal of future insurance cover

Work place safety

Workplace safety

Thank you