SPlASH - a Scottish Plan for Action on Safety and Health 2016 and beyond

1. SPlASH - a Scottish Plan for Action on Safety and Health 2016 and beyond

2. SPlASH - a Scottish Plan for Action on Safety and Health 2016 and beyond • A rolling plan of action to improve occupational health and safety across Scotland

3. SPlASH - a Scottish Plan for Action on Safety and Health 2016 and beyond • Linked to Scotland’s Fair Work Framework and the health and safety strategy Helping Great Britain Work Well

4. SPlASH - a Scottish Plan for Action on Safety and Health 2016 and beyond • Developed and managed by PHASS - the Partnership for Health and Safety in Scotland

5. Why a Scottish Plan? Why now? 2015 review of the evidence on health and safety in Scotland showed: • workplace health and safety is not worse in Scotland overall – risks are the same across GB

6. In Scotland… • 20 fatal work-related injuries a year on average • 3 year non-fatal injury rate - 2230 • 3 year non-fatal ill health rate - 3250 • costing the Scottish economy over £1,235 million • non-fatal and ill-health rates are not statistically different in Scotland from GB once adjusted for occupational differences

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8. Why a Scottish Plan? Why now? 2015 review of the evidence on health and safety in Scotland showed: • Scotland’s industrial and occupational composition accounts for higher rates of injury in some sectors

9. Why a Scottish Plan? Why now? 2015 review of the evidence on health and safety in Scotland showed: • different players and different landscape

10. Why a Scottish Plan? Why now? 2015 review of the evidence on health and safety in Scotland showed: • PHASS already established to catalyse specific action in targeted areas in the Scottish context

11. Why a Scottish Plan? Why now? 2015 review of the evidence on health and safety in Scotland showed: • learning from earlier approach in the 2007-08 Scottish Action Plan

12. Why a Scottish Plan? Why now? 2015 review of the evidence on health and safety in Scotland showed: • synergies with Scottish and UK Government strategies

13. Scotland’s Fair Work Framework Fair work is work that offers effective voice, opportunity, security, fulfilment and respect; that balances the rights and responsibilities of employers and workers and that can generate benefits for individuals, organisations and society.

14. #HGBWW • Helping Great Britain Work Well • A new strategy • Launched January 201 • New commitments published November • Sector Plans – roadshows new year

15. HGBWW Promoting broader ownership of health and safety in Great Britain

16. HGBWW Highlighting and tackling the burden of work-related ill health

17. HGBWW Giving SMEs simple advice so that they know what they have to do

18. HGBWW Enabling productivity through proportionate risk management

19. HGBWW Anticipating and tackling new health and safety challenges

20. HGBWW Promoting the benefits of Britain’s approach to health and safety

21. Key characteristics of SPlASH Partnership engagement competence More than a list of short term actions Strong, effective, integrated OH&S system Overseen by PHASS Link to Scottish and UK government agendas Long term living plan regularly updated Aims, outcomes measures (evidence)

22. Action under four broad themes • Strengthening engagement and partnership action in poorer performing sectors in the Scottish context • Integrating health & safety with government agendas for economic growth and health and fair work • Strengthening and acting on the evidence base • Improving health and safety management and in particular of occupational health

23. Actions Key Themes Actions • Strengthening engagement and partnership action in poorer performing sectors • Creating a Scottish Social Care Partners Forum • Establishing an industry partnership in a manufacturing sector • Facilitating a national OHS adviser network for SMEs • Developing an OH training framework for colleges (agriculture) • Supporting employers on driver health • Reviewing management approaches for mentally healthy workplaces in the NHS • Improving management of occupational health • Improving worker engagement on health and safety in the waste and offshore oil & gas sectors • Providing an OHS advice service to homeworkers in social care • Introducing Worker Safety Advisers in a poor-performing sector • Integrating workplace H&S with the Scottish Government agenda for economic growth health and fair work • Mapping the health and safety system • Gathering intelligence and soft data • All actions to have evaluation criteria • Developing the evidence for action

24. Strengthening engagement and partnership action in poorer performing sectors Creating a Scottish Social Care Partners Forum Establishing an industry partnership in a manufacturing sector

25. Integrating workplace H&S with the Scottish Government agenda for economic growth health and fair work Improving worker engagement on health and safety in the waste and offshore oil & gas sectors Providing an OHS advice service to homeworkers in social care Introducing Worker Safety Advisers in a poor-performing sector

26. Improving health and safety management and in particular of occupational health Facilitating a national OHS adviser network for SMEs Developing an OH training framework for colleges (agriculture) Supporting employers on driver health Reviewing management approaches for mentally healthy workplaces in the NHS

27. Developing the evidence for action Mapping the health and safety system Gathering intelligence and soft data All actions to have evaluation criteria

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29. Get involved… How best do we engage your sector? Tell people about it Help us work in partnership Share your knowledge Be part of it Tell us if we have missed something Suggest a new action building on now Join a project team Share performance data

30. Contact us Action Leaders Healthy Working Lives PHASS Community website – by invitation... splash@hse.gov.uk