Health & Safety brief to COPFS

Management Board

John McMillan MBEDusty Miller BSc

Paul McClintock Stuart Bailey

• Policies

• Committee

• Training

• Reporting & investigation

• Inspections (H&S audits/FRAs)

• Occupational Health

• Director HR – both SCS and COPFS• Senior operational managers• Local operational managers• Property service (shared service provider)• Sheriffs’ Association• TUS (PCS from SCS & COPFS and FDA)• H&S Team• ITSO – SCS

• Monitor H&S risks to SCS and COPFS & identify improvement actions;

• Ensure that SCS and COPFS health and safety policies and standards reflect statutory requirements and current risks;

• Periodically review and test the application of health and safety policies and standards;

• Monitor the incident reporting process and the conclusions of serious incident and accident investigations;

• Monitor the risk assessment process and ensure standards are applied evenly across SCS and COPFS;

• Review the results of the health and safety audits undertaken;

• Review the work programme of the H&S team;

• Highlight H&S priorities to the H&S team and Property Service Unit of SCS;

• Review the adequacy of the planned health and safety training programme

E-learning modules in each of• Avoiding slips, trips & falls• Fire safety & evacuation• Safe manual handling• VDU & workstation

Office & building managers’ course

Avoiding slips, trips & falls 605 = 36%

Fire safety & evacuation 386 = 23%

Safe manual handling 323 = 19%

VDU & workstation 421 = 25%

• Web hosted reporting system available to all staff

• Alerts OM, TUS and Federation managers to incident

• Security protocols at user and host end• Easy to administer• Permanent record of incident and follow up

actions• Satisfies RIDDOR requirements• Auditable system

38 in 2012 – 2 RIDDOR•13 V&A (verbal abuse/confrontation)•9 slips, trips & falls•6 cuts/abrasions/burns•4 manual handling•1 vehicle collision•1 fire•1 ceiling partial collapse•1 bleach spillage

• 3 year rolling programme

• 27 H&S audits conducted

• Reports to FBM, OM, TUS

• Recurring themes

• 3 year rolling programme

• 35 FRAs conducted

• Reports to FBM, OM, TUS

• Recurring themes

• 49 staff had assistance from either Occ Health provider and/or Posturite

• Mainly backache; less commonly RSI & WRULDs

Dusty Miller 01224 657 232

vmiller@scotcourts.gov.uk

John McMillan 0131 444 3443

jmcmillan@scotcourts.gov.uk

Paul McClintock 0131 444 3394

pmcclintock@scotcourts.gov.uk

Stuart Bailey 0131 444 3448

Stuart.bailey@copfs.gsi.gov.uksbailey@scotcourts.gov.uk