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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