SHE Team Annual Health & Safety performance report - Finning (UK)

SHE Team
Annual Health & Safety
Performance Report
2011/2012
Supporting employees to enable them to
achieve excellent health and safety at work
Enabling activities to take place with suitable
and sensible controls proportionate to the risk
Taking a sensible common sense approach to
health and safety
Raising awareness to improve our safety culture
and performance
The SHE Team
Elaine Debenham
Safety, Health and
Environment Manager
Mark Bishop
Safety, Health and
Environment Advisor
Catherine Ince
Safety, Health and
Environment Advisor
Making West Midlands Safer
Prevention
Protection
Response
www.wmfs.net

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Annual Health and Safety
Performance Report 2011/2012
Safety Events
Our total number of injuries was 158, we have
approximately 2340 employees.
Our total injuries reduced by 17% against last year’s
fi gures (2010/11). This is our lowest number of injuries
on record. Over the last 22 years, total and RIDDOR
injuries have reduced by Total 81% and RIDDOR and injuries 87% 1990 - respectively.
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We publish all our reported near hits and injury
data on the SHE Team intranet site, within TOpS.
We held two successful signifi cant Individual and
Organisational Learning Panels which refl ected
on fi re behaviour training injuries and a near
hit related to water training. Organisational
and individual learning was actioned to give
continuous improvement.
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RIDDOR Injuries (Major and over 3 day)
Our Birmingham South Command area has the best
reporting culture for near hits and violent incidents.
We won the ROSPA Occupational Health and Safety
Sector Award for the Emergency Services Sector in May
2012 having received a Gold Medal Award in May 2011.
This was received as a result of our good injury data and
H&S management systems and positive culture.
The number of violent incidents reported has
reduced by 16% compared against the
previous year.
Our main type of violence report is verbal 51% then
missiles 24%.
We worked with the Arson Task Force to improve our
violence procedure. A map below shows current
violence hotspots.
Our RIDDOR reportable injuries increased by
50% against last year’s fi gures (2010/11) due to
slip, trips and fall injuries.
Slip,
trip and
fall accidents
are still number
We had a small decrease in the number of vehicle
collisions and damage to our fl eet, compared to the
previous year 2010/11. (146-134)
Just under 50% of our vehicle collisions occur between
0-5 mph. A small reduction in these was achieved
during 2010/2011.
Two thirds of our injuries occur in a controlled
environment, where we are not in an emergency
situation.
The breakdown of where our injuries occur is:
51% 33% 16%
Not at incident At an During
or training incident training
We did not receive any Prosecutions or
Enforcement Notices from the HSE.

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Annual Health and Safety
Performance Report 2011/2012
Training and Awareness
Annual Health and Safety
Performance Report 2011/2012
National and Regional work
We ran four IOSH Managing Safely Courses for Crew
and Watch Commanders and support staff.
Several of our fl exi duty offi cers were trained in
Specialist Accident Investigation skills.
We developed Ecademy courses on control of
contractors’ procedures and hearing protection.
We contributed to
the National Generic
Risk Assessment (GRA)
project and have
written 8 of the GRAs.
We reviewed our Health and Safety Committee meeting
structure and have merged groups and reduced the
number of meetings to make effi ciencies.
We are involved in scoping a framework for the National
Health and Safety Review by CFRAU and CLG.
We have a Regional Health and Safety Business Plan and
work with our neighbouring Fire and Rescue
Services regularly.
CFOA
West Midlands Region
Risk Assessment
We set up a library of risk assessments and quality
assured many assessments. We have set up a formal
consultation system for operational risk assessments.
See the risk assessment library on the SHE intranet page
under TOpS.
Health and Safety Plan
2011-2012
We took part in a QSA ROSPA Health and Safety
Audit of Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service.
We led the Shropshire Fire and Rescue Health and
Safert Safety QSA Audit.
We monitor national safety events and provide
advice on the implications of these.

Annual Health and safety
Performance Report
Continuous Improvements
We have strong links with Operational Intelligence so
that intelligence from near hits and accidents can be
considered with the debrief information.
We have strong links to the Hazmats Section to support
them in chemical safety.
We reviewed and refreshed our contractor
procedures and training course.
We reviewed our COSHH (Control of Substances
Hazardous to Health) assessments.
The SHE Team are recognised as enablers. Here
to assist your projects running safely. Contrary to
popular belief the SHE Team have never prevented
any activity. We cut through the red tape to enable
things to proceed safely.
We assisted the Representative Bodies in their safety
inspections at Headquarters and Safeside.
We carried out numerous computer workstation assessments
and improved the ergonomics for the end user.
STAR Launch
We reviewed and updated OPNI Managing Risk at incidents
and worked closely with Bill Gough and others in introducing
STAR, a personal safety model for Firefighters.
Roger Bodycote
Roger Bodycote retired after
9 years dedicated service as a SHE
Advisor. Thank you to Roger for his
contribution to improving health
and safety within WMFS. The Team is
now smaller.
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