SPATEX 2016 Member of ISPE ISPE Endorsed Training Provider CMIOSH Chair IOSH East Midlands ACIEHMIISRM The 17th Edition Wiring Regulations were updated on 1st January 2015 The new edition has a yellow cover. The new regulations came into effect on 1st July 2015 and affects electrical installations as follows: Installations designed from 1st July 2015 should comply with the new edition Periodic Inspection and Testing of installations from 1st July 2015 should demonstrate compliance under the new regulations The design or installation of electrical work done prior to the end of June 2015 may follow either Amendment 3 or Amendment 2 The new requirements did not apply to consumer units until 1st January 2016 Safety in the installation and use of gas systems and appliances Guidance and ACOP on standards of training in safe gas installation have been included (in Part B) from COP20 Standards of training in safe gas installation. Approved Code of Practice, which was withdrawn early 2014COP20 Standards of training in safe gas installation. Approved Code of Practice Guidance for landlords under regulation 36 has been removed and replaced with a small amount of ACOP text. Detailed guidance for landlords can be found on the HSE websiteguidance for landlords The material on requirements for appliances and flues formerly contained in Appendix 1 has been updated and can now be found in Appendix 3 Examples of unsafe situations have been removed details are in the Gas Industry Unsafe Situations procedure, which is freely available from Gas Safe Register Lists of standards and regulations have been removed. The material in Part C, Meters and regulators, has been updated, partly to reflect the introduction of smart meters Interactive Tool RIDDOR 2013 Specified Injuries replace major injuries: fractures, other than to fingers, thumbs and toes amputations any injury likely to lead to permanent loss of sight or reduction in sight any crush injury to the head or torso causing damage to the brain or internal organs serious burns (including scalding) which: covers more than 10% of the body causes significant damage to the eyes, respiratory system or other vital organs any scalping requiring hospital treatment any loss of consciousness caused by head injury or asphyxia any other injury arising from working in an enclosed space which: leads to hypothermia or heat-induced illness requires resuscitation or admittance to hospital for more than 24 hours Role of Environmental Health Officers? Code on how local authorities should enforce Health & Safety has come into force Proactive inspections only for high risk premises or where intelligence suggests risks not being properly managed L As will be required to target their interventions with a risk based proportionate approach, to be consistent, ensure transparency and to be accountable National Local Authority Enforcement Code Always subject to potential visit on public health interest grounds Role of Environmental Health Officers? Hugo Boss fined 1.2m after a four-year-old boy died at one its shops. Austen Healey was killed by an 18-stone (114kg) changing room mirror, which fell on him at the Hugo Boss outlet in Bicester Village in He was rushed to the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, where he underwent an emergency operation to relieve pressure on his brain but died four days later in hospital after his life-support machine was switched off. Hugo Boss admitted to health and safety breaches at a hearing at Banbury Magistrates Court on 2 June for failing to secure mirror. Jonathan Laidlaw QC, defending, entered a guilty plea for the company to offences under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations However, Barry Berlin, prosecuting on behalf of Cherwell District Council, told the court that the label should be sentenced at the crown court because the maximum fine at magistrates court was only 20,000. He suggested the case should be sentenced in the crown court where the recommended starting point of a 100,000 fine per offence could be imposed or even exceeded. Plainly this a very serious matter relating to a child aged four-and-a-half who on June was struck on the head by a seven feet tall, 18 stone free standing three-way mirror, he added. It wasnt fixed to the wall despite its own requirements. We say, bearing in mind that the injuries the child sustained resulted in his death, that this is a case that should be dealt with in the crown court. An inquest concluded the mirror should have been fixed to a wall, while coroner Darren Salter described the incident as an accident waiting to happen. In sentencing the company today (4 Sep), Oxford Crown Court Judge Peter Ross said Hugo Boss had a corporate responsibility, and he wanted to ensure the issue went to the very top of the company. A new conceptthe responsible person Case Law Retailer Fined For Dangerous Hot Tubs Union wins travelling time case in European court Large numbers of workers could be entitled to more pay or a reduction in hours after the European court of justice ruled that travel to and from some jobs could be counted as part of a working day.European court of justice ruled In a judgment which takes effect immediately, the Luxembourg-based court said this should be the case for staff without a fixed or regular workplace who generally travel from home to and from a variety of locations. A takeaway shop was fined after for failure to produce an ELCI (Employers Liability Compulsory Insurance) certificate. Gumus Takeaway Limited, of Eastgate Street, Gloucester, did not attend court or enter a plea and was fined a total of 2,000, with costs of 2,360, in their absence for offence under Section 4(2)(b) of the Employers Liability Compulsory Insurance Act Employers Liability Insurance David Lloyd David Lloyd Leisure fined for exposing swimming pool users to noxious gas and hospitalising five. A leisure company has been ordered to pay 130,000 after five swimmers at its Ipswich fitness club needed hospital treatment following exposure to a noxious substance. David Lloyd Leisure Ltd had previously admitted being an employer breaching its general duty to others than an employee after chloramines were released into its swimming pool. Chloramines are irritants which generally cause short-term respiratory problems. DONT PANIC! Jenkinson Copy of presentation will be available to download from