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Health and safety leadership - guidance and support for small businesses

Health and safety leadership - guidance and support for small businesses. Sarah Jones HSE. The importance of small businesses. The Health and Safety of Great Britain \ Be part of the solution.

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Health and safety leadership - guidance and support for small businesses

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  1. Health and safety leadership - guidance and support for small businesses Sarah Jones HSE

  2. The importance of small businesses

  3. The Health and Safety of Great Britain \\ Be part of the solution Our goal \\ To adapt and customise approaches to help the increasing numbers of SMEs in different sectors comply with their health and safety obligations. Our goal \\ To encourage strong leadership in championing the importance of, and a common-sense approach to, health and safety in the workplace. Our goal \\ To motivate focus on the core aims of health and safety and, by doing so, to help risk makers and managers distinguish between real health and safety issues and trivial or ill-informed criticism.

  4. Why health and safety leadership? Reported workplace injuries

  5. Why health and safety leadership? Self-reported work-related ill health

  6. The financial cost The estimated economic cost of health and safety ill health incidents in Dumfries and Galloway is between £20.3 million and £31.0 million. The estimated cost for accidents in Dumfries and Galloway is between £17.9 million and £32.5 million. Every year. And shattered lives.

  7. HSE guidance (handout available) Useful information: • Getting started, step-by-step - 11 steps • Leading health and safety in small businesses – based on IoD/HSE guide • Information about managing health and safety • Simple risk assessment for small businesses

  8. HSE guidance *New from HSE* • Simple combined risk assessment and safety policy statement template • Simplified interactive risk assessment for low risk office-based work. Similar will follow for classrooms and shops.

  9. Successful health and safety management (HSG65) – currently being revised

  10. Coming soon… • Basic guidance for managing health and safety in small businesses focussing on 'what to do' and 'how to do it' • A minimum standard of professional qualification for all those operating as consultants in the health and safety industry • A web based directory of accredited health and safety consultants

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