Minutes of EACSG Meeting 20th September 2018 VENUE ...

Minutes of EACSG Meeting 20th September 2018

VENUE: Britannia Training, Wymondham

Chair Graham Chandler Deputy Chair Mark Cooper

Secretary Lee Fisk Treasurer Deb Halls

Programme Secretary Catherine Goakes Minutes Lee Fisk

Website Dean Chandley Social media Andrew Townsend & Andrew Bickers

1.0 Attendance

Apologies were received by the secretaryand attendance record appended.(see appendix 1)

The chair welcomed Richard Voke and thanked him for travelling from Bristol to speak and new members / representatives.

The chair then asked everyone to introduce themselves for the benefit of the speakers and newly joined members and thanked Colin from Britannia training for today’s venue use.

The meeting followed the usual format of guest speakers presenting first (item 8) followed by lunch and then group business .

2.0 Secretarys report

• Safety Groups UK Lee Fisk expalined to new members that EASCG is a member of SGUK before giving an update on recent correspondence received from Safty Groups UK.

1. SGUK newsletter – this was displayed and talked through 2. Alan Butler and Maurice Adamson Awards – explained what the awards entail, walked through

last year’s submission and agreed content for this year’s award. Lee Fisk will draft the entry and gain committee feedback and approval

• Information and resources 1. Mental Health

For free information and resources https://www.buildingmentalhealth.net 2. Lighthouse Charity

The construction charity that provides financial and emotional support for the construction community and their families. – please promote this to the workforce at every opportunity such as inductions, posters and toolbox talks http://www.lighthouseclub.org

3. HSE – Construction infonet Subscibe and receive free news and updates direct from the HSE

3.0 Treasurer’s report

Deb Hall gave a summary of the groups finances which as of 17th Septeber stand at £4901.28

At the last meeting we discussed using some of the surplus to subsidise some training for members.

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A 2 day Mental Health First Aid course is being run for members and the expenditure will now only be for course registration and delegate fees, nominal expenses plus provision of lunch and refreshments Alison Rogerson used her contacts at Towergate Insurance to secure the group a free venue and Kane Blatchford from Borras Construction will provide training free of charge As a result we still have a healthly surplus and various discussiosn took place on how to use it to bebefit members or the industry It was garee that we should look at funding 16 people who are in one way or another disadvantaged such as those in rehabilitation or NEET’s (not in education , emp[loyement or training) to gain CITB Site Safety plus 1 day H&S awareness course plus paying for them to take the CITB HS&E Test and CSCS card registration. Coin Wright form Britannia Training kindly volunteered to run a free 1 day H&S awareness course free of charge Lee Fisk volunteered to investigate how to contact and arrange 16 suitable candidates See Appendix 2 for Treasurers Report statement of accounts

4.0 Website, social media and external communications

We have a Facebook, Twitter and Linked In group page PLEASE CAN MEMBERS TAKE THE TIME OUT TO HAVE LOOK OR CONTRIBUTE Andrew Bickers explained how the group could improve its coverage via social media but it does require all to post and follow various links, posts and likes Consensus seemed to suggest Linked In and Whats App Group are some of our best options as is creating a new facebook page and scraping the old one. Andrew agred to help Andrew Townsend set these up Social media – agreed that as part of this new focus we will have an agenda item where the group get out their phones and activate news and feeds on the meetings events Lee Fisk acknowledged that there are errors on the website and that information has been collated for renewal. ALL NOTE: please email Lee direct if you have noted anything on the website that needs correcting, adding or improving.

5.0 Programme secretarys report

Note: If you have any suggestions for a speaker or topic please let the committee know and it can be difficult to find good speakers and presenters

• EACSG programme 22

nd November 2018 TRAINING - no meeting

21st February 2019 Venue TBC

11th April 2018 AGM Venue TBC – NOTE 18

th is day before Good Friday so change to 11

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Discussed 2018/19 programme and topics. An update on the new CITB grant structure would be welcomed and also agreed ISO 45001 would be a good topic for a future speaker Lee Fisk asked if the group would like a speaker on Drugs and Alcohol testing which would focus on ‘Drug Wipe’ by showed the group a DrugWipe®. www.dtecinternational.com. Agreed and Gareth Salisbury UK Sales Manager (Workplace) D.Tec International Limited will attend and speak at February 2019 meeting


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6.0 Health & Safety Executive / Working Well Together (WWT)

HSE - Construction Health Inspection initiative – October 2018 HSE will be carrying out its latest construction inspection initiative throughout October 2018. This initiative will focus on health, in particular the measures in place to protect workers from occupational lung disease caused by asbestos, silica, wood and other dusts when carrying out common construction tasks.

See appendix 3 for further details or subscribe to HSE infonet

• Working Well Together – East Anglia Group

Next SHAD – 3rd

October 2018 Trinity Park, Ipswich See appendix 4 for WWT SHAD flyer

7.0 Notable accidents or incidents

The group discussed various incidents and issues.

As a rule these are not minuted to respect confidentiality

8.0 Speakers today For the record the events speakers were: (some presentations available on the EACSG website.)

Speaker Organisation Topic

Richard Voke Ashfords LLP Legal – Personal liability and 2018update

Colin Wright Britannia Training Mental Health Reliliance

Graham Chandler Phelan Construction ISO 45001 transition – our journey Graham Chandler – OHSAS 18001 to ISO 45001 Transition

Graham gave a brief overview of Phelans progress of achieving the transition to the new ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Standard including the key changes

ISO 45001 is based on the new ISO high level structure (HLS). For those who have implemented ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 standards ISO 45001 has a familiar structure and terms, which supports consistency and enables better integration, as well as a more efficient and effective approach to managing business risks. ISO 45001 utilises the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle and has drawn on experience from BS OHSAS 18001 In line with good practice expectations, top management leadership of health and safety and worker engagement are significant aspects of ISO 45001, bringing health and safety management and continual improvement into the heart of an organisation.


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Richard Voke - Legal – Personal liability, 2018update and recent construction related cases Richard is head of Business risk and Regualtory Department at Ashford LLP and a leading defence lawyer. [email protected] 07967 327282 Richard is a leading defence lawyer, ex HSE Inspector and holds an MSc in environmental toxicology. His talk was very engaging including a refresher on the legal process, landmark case law, Directors duties under HASAWA section 7 and organisational and personal culpability / liabilityand mitigation.

Sevaral recent cases were discussed and the fines being imposed via the sentencing guidelines for corporate manslaughter health and safety offences. He also highlighted a proposal for new individual sentencing guidelines which could see custodial sentences for upto 14 years


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Colin Wright – Mental Health Resiliance Colin Wright – MD for Britannia Training gave a talk on his view on the stigma surrounding Mental Health and his thoughts on some of the reasons. He expalined that he is not trained in this area, but like everyone else acknowledges the industry and wider society are starting to talk about Mental Health in a more open way. Colin had put some slides together, to to present but to provoke group discussions on many elements either directly or indirectly associated with menatl health, anxiety and depression. The session started with a discussion around general menatl health and society, then movied on to some specifics within the industry and ending on what organisations (both large and small) and line managers / supervisors could do to both avoid creating negative situations / conflict (prevention) and how to better support individuals .

9.0 Any other business There was no other business but the following topic has been left in from previous minutes as a reminder Colin Wright reminded all about the issue affecting Britannia around fraudulent HS&E training certification and Rebecca Brown from Safety Men Training concurred and expalined they too had come across people copying or falsifying their training certification Both encouraged members and others to carry out a simple check by rining the training provider who are more than happy to validate any certificate.

11.0 Appendices

1 Attendance register

2 Treasurers report

3 HSE Construction Infonet – October 2018 health initiative

4 Working Well Together – SHAD Flyer 3rd

October 2018


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ppendix 1 – Attendance list Appendix 1 – Attendee register


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Appendix 2 – Treasurers report Appendix 3 – EACSG 2017 SGUK Alan Butler award submission


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Appendix 3 – HSE Construction Infonet


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Appendix 4 – WWT SHAD Flyer

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