Site Safety Plus Two day Site Supervisors Safety Training Scheme Instructor: Dale Weaver

1. Site Safety Plus Two day Site Supervisors Safety Training Scheme • Instructor: Dale Weaver • Wednesday, 01 January 2020

2. Site Safety Plus: House keeping No Smoking: Smoking areas are: First Aid: Your first aider for today is myself Fire: No test planed for today, the escape routes are: the assembly points is: Toilets Telephones please turn all mobile phones off

3. Site Safety Plus Introduction This course is for those who have, or are about to acquire, supervisory responsibilities. It provides supervisors with an understanding of health, safety, welfare and environmental issues relevant to their work activities.

4. Aims and outcomes The course aims to ensure that all those given supervisiory responsibilities understood: • Why they are carrying out their identified duries • What is expected of them • Ensure that they contribute to the safety of the work place

5. At the end of the course delegate will be able to: • Understand the problems in the industry • Have an understanding of how health and safely law is structured and how it applies to supervisors • Identify how their Supervisory role fits in with the management structure in controlling the site safety • Carry out risk assessments and understand the need for method statements

6. At the end of the course delegate will be able to: • Carry out effective site inductions, toolbox talks, and method statement briefings • Be able to monitor site activities effectively • Understand the importance of timely intervention when bad practices are identified

7. Agenda Day one • Course introductions • The role of the supervisor • Break • Health and safety law • Safe systems of work • Health and safety management • Lunch

8. Agenda Day one • Occupational Health • Fire prevention/controls and other emergencies • Break • Hazardous substances • End of Day One

9. Agenda Day two • Construction Design Management (regulations) • Working at height (regulations) • Break • Personal Protective Equipment • Manual Handling • Accidents and first aid • Lunch

10. Agenda Day two • Intervention skills and behaviour • Break • Examination • Course review • The End

11. Why are there so many accidents? • Many reports of present day construction accidents and ill health make depressing reading because simple actions were not taken to prevent them.

12. Exercise: In pairs • Produce a short list of the things a supervisor does on site

13. Lead by example • Communicate the safety message • Ensure the safety and welfare of people on site • Inputting ideas in to risk assessments and safe systems • Undertake and record inspections • Maintain records

14. Involve others when implementing safe systems of work • Check the plant and equipment • Ensure the work team carry out daily/weekly inspections • Present and record toolbox talks • Request were necessary training for self and operatives • Consulting with and involving workers

15. Recognise that peoples behaviour influences safety matters • Provide support for the team to be activity involved • Appreciate that team members may have learning problems • Ensure the team get the right information at the right time • Use visual aids to communicate the safety message • Encourage opportunities for face to face discussion

16. Supervisors are ambassadors of the company • An essential part of health and safety management is two way communication

17. So why is good supervision so important? - Discuss • Supervisor will lead by example • Communicate the safety message • Ensure safety and welfare of people on site • Input ideas into risk assessments • Undertake inspections • Maintain records

18. Good health and safety management and a successful business are complimentary • Talking to, listening to and involving employees helps to: • Make the work place healthier and safer • Improves motivation and production • Raises standards • Promotes the company representation • Assists in pre-qualification list

19. When staff are involved and well trained they will add value to the business because they are: • More motivated • Take less sick time • Show greater loyalty

20. To help in involving the workforce you need to: • Set them a good example • Train them well • Listen to their concerns • Encourage them to suggest solutions to problems • Give feed back on how concerns raised will be dealt with • Treat them with respect

21. Communication: Verbal/Visual • Changes in legislation that may have an affect on health, safety, welfare • Information on the likely risks in the work place and controls • Best way for information to be shared (verbal, tool box talks, induction/posters/ notices • Health and safety for new technology

22. Achieving safety awareness: • The supervisors role is to provided clear direction to those under their control and to support management in their objective of achieving safety awareness to reduce incidents and accidents.

23. Behavioural safety: • Tries to determine why people act the way they do in relation to work activities • Chapter 05 p78

24. Coffee Break 15 Minutes

25. Justice systems and the court structure

26. How the courts work • There are different types of courts in England and Wales which cover between them all legal disputes, from defendants accused of crimes, consumers in debt, children at risk of harm, businesses involved in commercial disputes or individuals asserting their employment rights.

27. The two types of court we will consider are: • Criminal courts • Deal with all cases, where a crime has been committed and there is enough evidence gathered against the alleged offender for there to be a reasonable chance of a conviction • it regulates social conduct and whatever is threatening, harmful, or otherwise endangering to the property, health, safety, and moral welfare of people. • It includes the punishment of people who violate these laws. • Burden of proof in criminal law proceedings is beyond all reasonable doubt

28. Civil courts • Dealing with disputes between private individuals and/or organisations, such as the non-repayment of a debt, personal injury, the breach of a contract concerning goods or property, housing disputes, bankruptcy or insolvency

29. Criminal Court cases • All criminal court cases start in a magistrates' court, and the vast majority will finish there. A small number will be referred to a higher court, usually the Crown Court. • Cases at magistrates' courts • Some offences, such as motoring offences or disorderly behaviour, are dealt with only by magistrates' courts. They are known as summary offences. The maximum punishment for a single summary offence is six months in prison, and/or a fine of up to £20,000. • About 1.5 million to 2 million criminal cases go through the magistrates' courts each year.

30. Criminal Court cases • All criminal court cases start in a magistrates' court, and the vast majority will finish there. A small number will be referred to a higher court, usually the Crown Court. • Indictable offences, on the other hand, are serious crimes (rape, murder); if an initial hearing at the magistrates' court finds there is a case to answer, they are committed to the Crown Court, which has a much wider range of sentencing power. 

31. Cases at magistrates' courts • Cases are heard by a District judge or by a bench of three lay judges, or magistrates. there is no jury at a magistrates' court. • Criminal cases are usually, although not exclusively, investigated by the police and then prosecuted at the court by the Crown Prosecution service. The defendant may hire a solicitor or barrister to represent them, often paid for by the state.

32. Cases at Crown Courts • The Crown Court carries out four principal types of activity: • Appeals from decisions of magistrates; • Sentencing of defendants committed from magistrates’ courts, • Jury trials, and the sentencing of those who are convicted in the Crown Court, either after trial or on pleading guilty. • Can impose unlimited fines and prison sentences

34. Breach of duties under sections 2 to 6 Health & Safety at work Act • Failure to discharge a duty under these sections carries a maximum fine on conviction in the magistrates' court of £20,000 • In the Crown Court, the maximum penalty is an unlimited fine.

35. Health and Safety Law • This law protects the well being of people at work and others (general public) by ensuring the work is carried out in a manner that is safe and free from of risks to health to all those that may be affected.

36. Health and Safety Law • When health and safety law is broken, a criminal offence is committed and can be punishable by a fine or/and imprisonment. • Whilst embedded in criminal law, prosecution may give a person the right to take legal action against an employer for compensation through the civil courts.

37. Health and Safety Law • Legislation places duties upon employers, employees, self employed and other who control the work of others. • In many situations, site based staff (such as supervisors, site managers,) will be nominated by the employer to ensure the employers legal duties are complied with at site level. • However legal duties still lie with the employer

38. Acts • Regulations • Approved codes of practice • Codes of practices • British standards • Guidance notes

39. Acts of parliament • Health and safety at work act 1974 is the primary piece of legislation in the united kingdom, • The Act is termed as an enabling Act which allows the government to make health and safety regulations that become part of the law

40. Health and safety at work act 1974 • Section 1 Preliminaries - the provisions of this Part shall have effect with a view to: • (a)securing the health, safety and welfare of persons at work; • (b)protecting people other than persons at work against risks to health or safety arising out of or in connection with the activities of persons at work; • (c)controlling the storage and use of explosive or highly flammable dangerous substances, and generally preventing the unlawful acquisition, possession and use of such substances.

41. Health and safety at work act 1974 Section 2 General duties of employers to their employees. • It shall be the duty of every employer to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of all his employees. • the provision and maintenance of plant and systems of work that are, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe and without risks to health; • arrangements for ensuring, so far as is reasonably practicable, safety and absence of risks to health in connection with the use, handling, storage and transport of articles and substances;

42. Health and safety at work act 1974 Section 2 General duties of employers to their employees. • Provide information, instruction, training and supervision as is necessary to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety at work of his employees; • so far as is reasonably practicable as regards any place of work under the employer’s control, the maintenance of it in a condition that is safe and without risks to health and the provision and maintenance of means of access and egress that are safe and without such risks; • provision and maintenance of a working environment for employees that is, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe, without risks to health, and adequate as regards facilities and arrangements for their welfare at work.

43. Health and safety at work act 1974 Section 2 General duties of employers to their employees. • Provide information, instruction, training and supervision as is necessary to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety at work of his employees; • so far as is reasonably practicable as regards any place of work under the employer’s control, the maintenance of it in a condition that is safe and without risks to health, means of access to and egress from work places that are safe and without risks; • provision of a working environment for his employees that is, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe, without risks to health, as regards facilities and arrangements for their welfare at work.

44. Health and safety at work act 1974 • Section 3 General duties of employers and self-employed to persons other than their employees. • It shall be the duty of every employer to conduct his undertaking in such a way as to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that persons not in his employment who may be affected thereby are not thereby exposed to risks to their health or safety. • It shall be the duty of every self-employed person to conduct his undertaking in such a way as to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that he and other persons (not being his employees) who may be affected thereby are not thereby exposed to risks to their health or safety.

45. Health and safety at work act 1974 • Section 4 General duties of persons concerned with premises to persons other than their employees. • This section has effect for imposing on persons duties in relation to those who • are not their employees; but use non-domestic premises made available to them as a place of work or as a place where they may use plant or substances provided for their use there,

46. Health and safety at work act 1974 • Section 5 General duty of persons in control of certain premises in relation to harmful emissions into atmosphere. • It shall be the duty of the person having control of any premises to use the best practicable means for preventing the emission from the premises of noxious or offensive substances.

47. Health and safety at work act 1974 • Section 6 General duty of manufactures etc. as regards articles and substances for use at work. • It shall be the duty of any person who designs, manufactures, imports or supplies any article for use at work: • to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that the article is so designed and constructed that it will be safe and without risks to health at all times when it is being set, used, cleaned or maintained by a person at work; • to carry out or arrange for the carrying out of such testing and examination as may be necessary for the performance of the duty imposed on him

48. Health and safety at work act 1974 • Section 7 General duties of employees at work. • It shall be the duty of every employee while at work • to take reasonable care for the health and safety of himself and of other persons who may be affected by his acts or omissions at work.

49. Health and safety at work act 1974 • Section 8 Duty not to interfere with or misuse things provided pursuant to certain provisions. • No person shall intentionally or recklessly interfere with or misuse anything provided in the interests of health, safety or welfare in pursuance of any of the relevant statutory provisions.

50. Health and safety at work act 1974 • Section 9 Duty not to charge employees for things done or provided pursuant to certain specific requirements. • No employer shall levy or permit to be levied on any employee of his any charge in respect of anything done or provided in pursuance of any specific requirement of the relevant statutory provisions