Utility Week Conference - Energy Networks Association · 2018-07-15 · •Engagement of...
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Powering Improvement “a whole Industry approach to occupational health and well being” Geoff Earl Director of Safety, Health & Environment Northern Powergrid The Voice of the Networks
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Powering Improvement “a whole Industry approach to
occupational health and well being”
Geoff EarlDirector of Safety, Health & Environment
Northern Powergrid
The Voice of the Networks
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2016 Focus on Occupational Health & Wellbeing
• Benefits of collaboration
• Engagement of stakeholders
• Opportunities arising from benchmarking
• Shaking off complacency
• Turning effort and enterprise into legacy
Powering Improvement Strategy
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Occupational Health Committee
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• To encourage collaboration between all stakeholders
• To focus attention on occupational health issues identified by member companies
• To reduce the number of cases of work related ill health
• To promote health and wellbeing education amongst the workforce
2016 Work Plan - Aims
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• Develop an industry “Roadmap” illustrating the ‘Journey on Health’ throughout the Powering Improvement initiative;
• Alignment of industry priorities with the new “Helping Great Britain Work Well” strategy;
2016 Work Plan - Outcomes
• Effectively communicate occupational health messages to all staff through the framework of ENA and Energy UK company HESACs and Powering Improvement Advocates.
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Outputs
1. Benchmarking 2. Occupational Health Roadmap
3. Re-evaluation of top three health risks 4. Communications
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Identify the issue
• Across Industry sickness accounts for almost six times more working days lost than accidents
• In high safety performing businesses this differential is even more significant
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Safety – A proud record of improvement
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Identify the issue
Work-related illness: Estimated prevalence and rates of self-reported illness caused or made worse by current or most recent job, by industry, for people working in the last 12 months, averaged 2008/09 - 2011/12, 2013/14, 2014/15 (Labour Force Survey)
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Breaking down the numbers
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Breaking down the numbers
• Typically 2.3% to 2.9% absence range
• Most businesses above their regional comparators
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Benchmarking between members
• MSDs and stress/anxiety/depression/mental health now firmly occupy the top two causes in our Industry.
• Opportunities for improvement
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Muscular Skeletal
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Absence Causations by Company
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Capturing the collaboration
DEMOLINK
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Visit www.poweringimprovement.org to have a go yourself.
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Identified issues and some potential solutions
Building the case for improvement
Measured and realistic about what is possible
Specific about what we can achieve
Delivery of benefits to ENA member Companies
Summary - Health with a capital “H”
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Summary – not just a years work
- Benchmarking
- Workshops
- Internal communications
- IT development
- Roadmap Portal Launch
- Best practices
- Occupational health specification
- Collaborative provision?
2016 2017 2018
Research & discover
Confidence to communicateOpportunity to integrateand innovate
