Health Safety Environmental Update 2020 Wednesday 26 th

Health, Safety & Environmental Update 2020 Wednesday 26 th February 2020 at Holmer Parish Hall Presented by Herefordshire Health & Safety Group

HSE Update 2020 The HSE will continue with its’ strategy published in 2016: HELPING GREAT BRITAIN WORK WELL Six strategic themes • Acting together: Promoting broader ownership of health and safety in Great Britain • Tackling ill health: Highlighting and tackling the costs of workrelated ill health • Managing risk well: Simplifying risk management and helping business to grow • Supporting small employers: Giving SMEs simple advice so they know what they have to do • Keeping pace with change: Anticipating and tackling new health and safety challenges • Sharing our success: Promoting the benefits of Great Britain’s world -class health and safety system HHSG Feb 2020 2

HSE Update 2020 HELPING GREAT BRITAIN WORK WELL This strategy will run until 2020 Ø It concentrates more on occupational health than on safety Ø It encourages working together Ø It promotes a more simple approach Ø It wants to take advantage of new technology HHSG Feb 2020 3

HSE Update 2020 HSE MISSION STATEMENT ‘The prevention of death, injury and ill health to those at work and those affected by work activities’ HHSG Feb 2020 4

HSE Update 2020 The HSE Objectives to meet Mission Statement: • Lead and engage with others to improve workplace health and safety • Provide an effective regulatory framework • Secure effective management and control of risk • Reduce the likelihood of low-frequency, highimpact catastrophic incidents HHSG Feb 2020 5

HSE Update 2020 HSE will lead and engage with others by: • Promoting proportionality in health and safety management • Improving their guidance material, designing it specifically around user needs continuing to put in place the necessary building blocks to improve website user experience • Developing new relationships to increase their reach and promote their guidance • Reducing the perceptions that good health and safety management is a burden HHSG Feb 2020 6

HSE Update 2020 The HSE will provide an effective regulatory framework by: • Supporting the Government’s fundamental reform of the building safety system following the Grenfell Tower disaster • Carrying out a programme of inspections of ACM cladding removal to support Government’s Building Safety Programme • Contributing to government-wide activities on the UK’s departure from the EU HHSG Feb 2020 7

HSE Update 2020 Secure effective management and control of risk: • Target inspections on specific issues and activities, including a sustained focus on work-related ill health • Investigate to swiftly tackle and reduce risks, securing accountability for victims and their families • Operate effective statutory schemes, ensuring the safe use of potentially harmful substances • Deliver a programme of targeted interventions concentrating on controlling high-consequence risks from legionella, fairgrounds and major construction projects HHSG Feb 2020 8

HSE Update 2020 Sectors to be targeted for inspection: MANUFACTURING • Fabricated metals where inspections will focus on the control of carcinogens and asthmagens specifically associated with welding fumes and metalworking fluids. • Food and drink inspections will focus on the movement, storage and handling of heavy loads and from repetitive tasks which cause MSDs. They will also focus on the control of asthmagens arising from flour dust in bakeries • Woodworking inspections will focus on ill-health risks, particularly occupational asthma and sino-nasal cancer which can result from poor control of exposure to wood dusts HHSG Feb 2020 9

HSE Update 2020 Sectors to be targeted for inspection: (Cont’d) WASTE & RECYCLING • Inspection activity will focus specifically on the management of maintenance activities and safe isolation practices to prevent fatal and serious incidents within this industry. They will also inspect selected premises to assess how effectively the health risks associated with exposure to bioaerosols are being managed. • Approximately a third of premises where intelligence received from other regulators indicates known poor performance HHSG Feb 2020 10

HSE Update 2020 Sectors to be targeted for inspection: (Cont’d) AGRICULTURE • Inspections will be made to 10% of those businesses invited to attend insight-led agricultural compliance events and will focus on the range of workplace risks covered in those events. • They will also inspect selected premises to assess the management of risks associated with livestock in response to persistent fatal incident rates in this area. HHSG Feb 2020 11

HSE Update 2020 Sectors to be targeted for inspection: (Cont’d) CONSTRUCTION • Inspections will be made on SMEs carrying out refurbishments • They will want to embed the requirements of the Construction Design and Management Regulations 2015 (CDM) through targeted inspections of duty holders providing principal designer services • The inspections will review the prevention and control of occupational lung disease (especially asbestos and dust) and musculoskeletal disorders. HHSG Feb 2020 12

HSE Update 2020 Sectors to be targeted for inspection: (Cont’d) FAIRGROUNDS • Recent incidents highlight the risk of failure or incorrect operation of some rides which can result in fatalities and multiple serious injuries. • Public safety is an inspection priority alongside the control of risks to the public both from fixed and travelling fairgrounds. • Emphasis will be on the standards of inspection and maintenance of rides and the control of risks associated with inflatables. HHSG Feb 2020 13

HSE Update 2020 Other Objectives • Fatal investigations - Complete 80% of fatal investigations within 12 months of HSE receiving primacy • Non-fatal investigations – Complete 90% of non-fatal investigations within 12 months of the incident • Operate effective statutory schemes, ensuring the safe use of potentially harmful substances HHSG Feb 2020 14

HSE Update 2020 Other Objectives Reduce the likelihood of low-frequency, high-impact catastrophic incidents by • Provide assurance that dutyholders are identifying and managing the major hazard risks they create • Strengthen major hazard leadership and worker engagement • Deliver robust and consistent regulation of decommissioning and dismantlement of offshore oil and gas infrastructure • Secure improvements in the effective management of network assets including gas risers in high-rise homes • Drive dutyholders to reduce the risk of offshore hydrocarbon releases • Raise operators’ focus on cyber security to ensure appropriate protection against major incidents HHSG Feb 2020 15

HSE Update 2020 Other Issues Health, Safety and Brexit • In terms of duties around health and safety, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has recently issued clear guidance which states that duties to protect the health and safety of people affected by your work will not change with Brexit • To maintain standards The EU (Withdrawal) Act 2018 ensures that, whatever the outcome certainty remains on health and safety for duty holders across the UK. The Act corrects minor inaccuracies, such as changing ‘European Union’ to ‘United Kingdom’. HHSG Feb 2020 16

HSE Update 2020 Other Issues Things in the pipeline: • Proposals to reduce ill-health job loss – consultation ended October 7 th 2019 • Manual Handling at Work a Brief guide – INDG 143 Revision 4 Draft – consultation ended September 24 th 2019 • Banning tyres 10 years or older – consultation ended September 1 st 2019 HHSG Feb 2020 17

HSE Update 2020 Other Stuff • New Licence Application Forms for Explosive Activities • Substances banned under REACH – BPA in thermal paper, D 4, D 5 in wash off cosmetics • Compliance requirements for Nanoforms • Proposed Fire Safety and Building Safety Bills following phase one of Grenfell Inquiry HHSG Feb 2020 18

HSE Update 2020 Other Stuff The latest version of EH 40/2005 has been updated to include new and revised workplace exposure limits (WELs) introduced by European Commission Directive (EU) 2017/2398. (Wood dust is one of the substances that has had its WEL reduced) (See handout for list of substances that have altered) HHSG Feb 2020 19

HSE Update 2020 ENVIRONMENTAL HHSG Feb 2020 20

HSE Update 2020 ENVIRONMENTAL BILL 2020 • It builds on one of the largest responses to a Defra consultation on the requirements for this draft legislation. The level of public interest in the Environment Bill is clearly demonstrated through the 176, 746 responses • The bill sets out how we will create a pioneering new system of green governance, placing the 25 Year Environment Plan on a statutory footing. • Plans to improve our environment, and provisions on air quality, waste and water resource management, and restoring nature. HHSG Feb 2020 21

HSE Update 2020 ENVIRONMENTAL BILL 2020 • The ambition is to be the first generation to leave the environment in a better state than that in which we found it. • Alongside the bill the government has published a policy paper setting out a broader vision for the UK’s environment when we leave the EU. HHSG Feb 2020 22

HSE Update 2020 ENVIRONMENTAL BILL 2020 The Policy Statement has 8 sections: 1. Why we need the bill 2. Environmental Governance 3. A new direction for resources and waste management 4. Improving the air we breathe 5. Delivering sustainable water resources 6. Restoring and enhancing nature and green spaces 7. Chemicals regulation (REACH) 8. Delivering environmental ambition at the local level HHSG Feb 2020 23

HSE Update 2020 WHY WE NEED THE BILL • Acting as one of the key vehicles for delivering the bold vision set out in the 25 Year Environment Plan, the Environment Bill brings about urgent and meaningful action to combat the environmental and climate crisis we are facing. It sets a new and ambitious domestic framework for environmental governance and helps to deliver on the government’s commitment to be the first generation to leave our environment in a better state. • The Environment Bill helps to manage the impact of human activity on the environment, creating a more sustainable and resilient economy, and enhancing well-being and quality of life. It will engage and empower citizens, local government and businesses to deliver environmental outcomes and create a positive legacy for future generations. • The Environment Bill has been prepared through consultations with the public on numerous measures, including: environmental governance; the clean air strategy; biodiversity net gain; trees; conservation covenants; extended producer responsibility for packaging; recycling; a deposit return scheme for drinks containers and water. HHSG Feb 2020 24

HSE Update 2020 ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE • A new statutory cycle of target setting, monitoring, planning and reporting will help deliver significant, long term environmental improvement and ensure government can be held to account for its actions. The Government will set new legally binding targets in four priority areas of the natural environment: air quality; waste and resource efficiency; water and nature. The Environmental Improvement Plans and legally binding targets will be reviewed on a five-yearly basis. • The Environment Bill will establish a new public body – the Office for Environmental Protection – an independent, domestic watchdog. The new body will monitor progress in improving the natural environment and will give written advice on any proposed changes to environmental law. HHSG Feb 2020 25

HSE Update 2020 ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE • The Office for Environmental Protection will take a proportionate approach to managing compliance issues relating to environmental law. Failures by public authorities to implement environmental law will no longer be considered through European enforcement processes and instead the new body will engage with public authorities to reach a solution. Legal proceedings will only be taken as a last resort or in truly urgent cases. HHSG Feb 2020 26

HSE Update 2020 A NEW DIRECTION FOR RESOURCES AND WASTE MANAGEMENT • Material resources are at the heart of our economy, and we consume them in large quantities. Since 2015 the government has introduced a 5 p charge on single use carrier bags, reducing big supermarkets plastic bag sales by 90%1; introduced a ban on microbeads in rinse-off personal care products; and announced a ban on plastic straws, drinks stirrers, and plastic stemmed cotton buds in England. • The resources and waste measures in the Bill will help move the economy away from the ‘take, make, use, throw’ system to a more circular economic model where we keep resources in use for longer and extract the maximum value from them. HHSG Feb 2020 27

HSE Update 2020 A NEW DIRECTION FOR RESOURCES AND WASTE MANAGEMENT • The Environment Bill helps consumers to make purchasing decisions that support the market for more sustainable products. It contains powers to introduce clear product labelling, which will enable consumers to identify products that are more durable, reparable and recyclable and will inform them on how to dispose of used products. • The Bill also takes steps to crack down on illegal waste activities, which costs the English economy around £ 600 million per year. HHSG Feb 2020 28

HSE Update 2020 A NEW DIRECTION FOR RESOURCES AND WASTE MANAGEMENT • It will also ensure regulators and local authorities can work more effectively to combat waste crime. • The Bill contains powers which will allow government to stop the export of waste, including polluting plastic waste, to developing countries. • The Bill also includes measures that will allow us to introduce producer responsibility obligations on waste prevention and redistribution. HHSG Feb 2020 29

HSE Update 2020 A NEW DIRECTION FOR RESOURCES AND WASTE MANAGEMENT • To support citizens’ efforts to recycle more, the Environment Bill stipulates a consistent set of materials that must be collected from all households and businesses, including food waste. The Bill also sets out how government will mandate weekly collections of food waste for every household, subject to consultation. • The Environment Bill also helps deliver commitments in the 2017 Litter Strategy to promote proportionate and effective enforcement against littering. HHSG Feb 2020 30

HSE Update 2020 IMPROVING THE AIR WE BREATHE • The Environment Bill makes a clear commitment to set an ambitious, legally binding target for the pollutant with the most significant impact on human health, fine particulate matter. • The Bill also strengthens the ability for local authorities to address air quality issues. • The Environment Bill enables greater local action on air pollution by updating, simplifying and strengthening the local air quality management framework (LAQM). HHSG Feb 2020 31

HSE Update 2020 IMPROVING THE AIR WE BREATHE • Measures are also being introduced to reduce emissions from the single largest contributor of fine particulate matter emissions – domestic solid fuel burning. The Bill creates a simpler mechanism for local authorities seeking to reduce smoke emissions within their areas. • Finally, the Bill introduces a new power to compel vehicle manufacturers to recall vehicles for environmental nonconformity or failure, in the case that a manufacturer refuses to issue a voluntary recall. HHSG Feb 2020 32

HSE Update 2020 DELIVERING SUSTAINABLE WATER RESOURCES • Water companies and other users of water may over-abstract and deprivers of the very basic resource they need to survive: water. • It enables the variation or revocation of abstraction licences without the regulator being liable to pay compensation to the licence holder in certain conditions. • The Environment Bill introduces additional requirements for Water Company planning for future water supply and wastewater and drainage networks, enabling more resilient solutions to drought and flooding. HHSG Feb 2020 33

HSE Update 2020 DELIVERING SUSTAINABLE WATER RESOURCES • Water companies and other users of water may over-abstract and deprivers of the very basic resource they need to survive: water. • It enables the variation or revocation of abstraction licences without the regulator being liable to pay compensation to the licence holder in certain conditions. • The Environment Bill introduces additional requirements for Water Company planning for future water supply and wastewater and drainage networks, enabling more resilient solutions to drought and flooding. HHSG Feb 2020 34

HSE Update 2020 RESTORING AND ENHANCING NATURE AND GREEN SPACES • The Bill supplements existing legislation and policy on protected sites and species and introduces new incentives, actions and planning tools to drive further improvements for nature. It also lays the foundation for the Nature Recovery Network. • The Environment Bill introduces a mandatory requirement for biodiversity net gain in the planning system, to ensure that new developments enhance biodiversity and create new green spaces for local communities to enjoy and improvements in air quality, water flow control, outdoor recreation and physical activity. HHSG Feb 2020 35

HSE Update 2020 CHEMICAL REGULATION (REACH) • The Environment Bill allows amendment to two pieces of legislation regulating the use of chemicals in the UK. The REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) Regulation regulates the manufacture, placing on the market and use of chemicals. • The Bill also gives the Devolved Administrations concurrent powers to amend the REACH Enforcement regulations. Both pieces of legislation are retained EU law under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018. • It will also make it possible to keep the legislation up to date and respond to emerging needs or ambitions for the effective management of chemicals. HHSG Feb 2020 36

HSE Update 2020 DELIVERING ENVIRONMENTAL AMBITION AT LOCAL LEVEL • Local authorities - as local experts, place-shapers, and conveners of their communities – must be empowered to play a fundamental role in delivering the environmental action needed in local areas. • The Bill bolsters the environmental role of local leaders by providing additional powers and flexibilities to deliver action. HHSG Feb 2020 37

HSE Update 2020 DELIVERING ENVIRONMENTAL AMBITION AT LOCAL LEVEL This Bill delivers this through: • improved and increased powers to take more effective action to address local priorities and deliver environmental change • providing more certainty and simplicity for developers through the planning system by mandating biodiversity net gain • ensuring that producers can be held responsible for the full net costs of managing products at end of life, reducing local authorities’ financial burdens from waste management, including litter collection • stronger abilities to improve health and social outcomes for local citizens • supporting local authorities as place shapers through new tools and data for effective spatial planning HHSG Feb 2020 38

HSE Update 2020 For further information check: HSE Website www. hse. gov. uk Environmental Website www. gov. uk Then organisations then Environmental Agency Or Our Website http: //herefordhsg. co. uk Or Facebook page https: //www. facebook. com/Herefordhsg/ HHSG Feb 2020 39

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