Occupational Health Safety Welfare Operational Guidance Occupational Health

Occupational Health Safety & Welfare Operational Guidance Occupational Health Safety & Welfare Derek Clough PROVIDING PROFESSIONAL ADVICE

Occupational Health Safety & Welfare Project brief To carry out a review of the 40 GRA contained in A Guide to Operational Risk Assessment (Volume 3) Plus other guidance in the H&S series, including: PROVIDING PROFESSIONAL ADVICE

Occupational Health Safety & Welfare Project Brief • A Guide for Senior Officers (Volume 1) • A Guide for Managers (Volume 2) • Training Module (Volume 4) • DYNAMIC management of risk at operational incidents (The safe person concept) PROVIDING PROFESSIONAL ADVICE

Occupational Health Safety & Welfare Initial Review • Guidance had not been fully reviewed since being produced • Reviews reactionary to events • Guidance was out of date and not strategically focused PROVIDING PROFESSIONAL ADVICE

Occupational Health Safety & Welfare Initial Review • Guidance was being produced in different formats • GRA guides where mini ops manuals not true GRAs • No review protocol in place or process for completing the review PROVIDING PROFESSIONAL ADVICE

Occupational Health Safety & Welfare Current Position: GRAs • Arrangements in place to review all GRAs • National review team established • Agreed format for GRAs PROVIDING PROFESSIONAL ADVICE

Occupational Health Safety & Welfare Current Position: GRAs • Agreed review procedure • Focused on risk and controls not procedure • Working closely with key stakeholders PROVIDING PROFESSIONAL ADVICE

Occupational Health Safety & Welfare GRA Review Procedure • Initial review agreed • CFOA region or individual organisation allocated review • Draft GRA completed with Rep body input PROVIDING PROFESSIONAL ADVICE

Occupational Health Safety & Welfare GRA Review Procedure • Draft GRA distributed to CFOA regions and key stakeholders for consultation • Draft GRA circulated for national consultation • GRA published PROVIDING PROFESSIONAL ADVICE

Occupational Health Safety & Welfare General Health & Safety Guidance • Recognised that there needs to be a full review of guidance • Review needs to provide strategic usable guidance • Future guidance needs to be diverse and include occupational health and welfare PROVIDING PROFESSIONAL ADVICE

Occupational Health Safety & Welfare General Health & Safety Guidance • Need to engage with all key stakeholders • Seminar organised for November 2009 to get the views of the fire community • Agree a user specification for future guidance • National framework for OHSW PROVIDING PROFESSIONAL ADVICE

Occupational Health Safety & Welfare Dynamic Risk Assessment Consultaion with key stakeholders November 2009 including: • CLG/OCFRA • CFOA • Representative Bodies • FRAs • HSE PROVIDING PROFESSIONAL ADVICE

Occupational Health Safety & Welfare Any Questions www. communities. gov. uk/fire/runningfire/operationalguidance/ derek. clough@surreycc. gov. uk PROVIDING PROFESSIONAL ADVICE