2016 caw march

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March 2016

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Upcoming Courses P2-3

Major Sentencing Changes P4-5

Accurate Risk Assessments P6-7

Presentation Skills P8-9

In the Spotlight P12-13

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source: Indicator

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Safety Snippets | P5

Major Changes to Health and Safety Sentencing Now in Place.

From February 1st 2016, significant changes in which Health and Safety, Corporate Manslaughter and Food Safety cases are sentenced have been introduced. The new guidelines represent a huge change in the way punishments are given for Health and Safety offences.

Consistency

The recent publication by the Sentencing Council acts as guidance for Health and Safety offences committed by both organisations and individuals, as well as corporate manslaughter and food safety and hygiene offences. The document is aimed at improving consistency in the sentencing of these cases, as well as ensuring fines are “fair and proportionate to the means of offenders”.

Factors

Using the guidelines, sentences can be decided by following a detailed step-by-step process. This process includes the use of tables with factors such as levels of culpability and the financial background of the offending organisation. Large organisations could be met with fines as high as £20 million for Health and Safety breaches using the new criteria.

Other elements of a Health and Safety offence that will be considered during sentencing include the likelihood of harm, and factors that increase or reduce the seriousness of the potential or occurred incident.

Risk

In this new legislation, punishments relate to the level of risk – whether there is a fatality or not. If there is a high risk of a fatal accident, the sentencing would still be based on the level of risk exposure.

Importance of Health and Safety compliance

As of the 1st February 2016, all Health and Safety cases sentenced will follow the new guidelines – including offences committed before the date of the guidelines’ implementation.

As well as giving an insight into the level of detail used during sentencing procedures, these new guidelines certainly emphasise the importance of Health and Safety compliance, and how vital it is that employers are well aware of any potential risks within their workplace.

Please click on the link for a copy of the sentencing guidelines;

http://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/HS-offences-definitive-guideline-FINAL-web1.pdf

Source: Business Safety Systems


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Tip 1. If your risk assessments might not reflect your operations, complete an audit (Comply at Work can provide a simple chec-klist useful to ‘audit’ your risk assessment ap-proach to ensure that everything is covered – just get in touch for your FREE copy). Check that all significant risks are covered, e.g. suitable storage of materials, work at height, traffic movements, etc., and most im-portantly that your control measures reduce the level of risk sufficiently.

Tip 2. Review your arrangements against those detailed in the HSE’s guidance http://www.hse.gov.uk/guidance/ You don’t have to follow it to the letter; however, your arrange-ments must be at least as effective as those identified.

source: Indicator


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Accurate risk assessments

A case has highlighted the potential danger of relying on generic, rather than site-specific, risk assessments. What’s to know?

The incident. The HSE prosecuted an employer following an accident at one of its recycling facilities. The investigation identified that a worker was struck and injured by a falling bale of waste. He suffered fractures to his face and skull plus brain injuries. The waste was stacked in unsupported co-lumns three bales high. The fact that they weren’t tied into the rows behind left them unstable and prone to collapse. To make matters worse, bales were also placed across the top of the stack.

In court. The HSE investigation found a site-specific risk assessment had not been completed. Instead, it relied on a generic risk assessment that lis-ted controls for presumed levels of risk. Also, it hadn’t followed HSE guidan-ce which identified that the bales should be interlinked and overlapped. The company was fined £450,000, with £11,676 costs.

There’s nothing stopping you from completing and using generic risk as-sessments. But, if you do you must ensure that they accurately reflect the risks found on your site. This case makes it clear that if the HSE has provi-ded explicit guidance on how a task should be completed, and your systems aren’t as safe, you can expect your decision to be challenged.

Your risk assessments must cover your operations in detail and your control measures be as effective as those identified in HSE guidance. If they aren’t, your systems won’t stand up in court.

If you require any advice or guidance on risk assessment, please let us know – we are here to help.

source: Indicator


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Presentation SkillsWe have written in our newsletter before about training

and presentation techniques. This is a good refresher and a super-fast way to deliver better presentations!

If you have a pen and paper with you, please draw a circle. If you haven’t, imagine you’ve just drawn a circle!

You’re going to turn this circle into a pie chart with three wedges. These will show the three things to prepare when writing a presentation:

1. Your slides – what the audience will see

2. Your script – the words you’ll say

3. Your questions – the things you’ll ask

Here’s how to do your pie chart: simply split your circle into three wedges, showing the proportion of your prep time that you allocate to preparing each of these three. If you are like the vast majority of people, you’ll have a huge wedge for slide prep and a small wedge for your script. And that’s it. There’ll be no wedge at all for preparing questions. Because people very rarely prepare in advance what they’re going to ask the audience. But, as you know, presentations should be interactive wherever possible. You want the audience engaged, and discussing things with you/each other.

Your pie chart should look like this:

• A tiny wedge for the slides – 10% max

• The remaining 90% split equally between script and questions…

• …in other words, spend as much time preparing what you’ll ask as you do on what you’ll say

If you’re surprised by this, don’t worry. Spending time thinking of good questions helps you deliver successful presentations. Here are some questions that work really well:

• After a slide showing the main benefits of your proposition, ask “which of these benefits are the most important?” When they respond with “number 3”, ask “why’s that?” This helps uncover their key priorities, and therefore helps you shape what you’ll say next

• Running a workshop? After your first topic ends, ask “before we go to the next topic, please look through your notes and be ready to answer this question: what’s the one thing you’ll do differently as a result of what we’ve just discussed?” A great way to turn their learnings into actions

• At the end of a sales pitch, ask the customer “Out of everything we’ve discussed, what are you most excited about?” This is a very positive, exciting way to finish the pitch. After all, you watch them discuss with each other the most exciting bits of what you’ve just said!

• Get instant engagement by asking this: “This first slide shows our agenda for today. Which topic would you like us to discuss first?” When they answer, you know what their #1 priority is. So, go straight there. You’re already making an impression.

Finally, one very handy PowerPoint hint: some of these questions will result in you needing to change the order of your slides. Tip: If you’re on slide 1 and want to jump to slide 8, just press the “8” key on the keyboard and then “return” and you jump straight there. This tip means you don’t have to deliver it in the order you prepared it. Instead, you deliver it in the order that your audience wants to hear it. And that’s much more likely to impress.

Source: Andy Bounds

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in the spotlightWelcome to our new clients:1st Stop Group, Blackpool

Tailored Fire & Security (Manchester) Ltd

Northern Pets, Ramsbottom

SDH Building Services Ltd, Bolton

Bartell Cottage Furnishings Ltd, Manchester

Congratulations also to Click Fire and Security based in Milnrow on their recent success with CHAS accreditation.

FREE WORKSHOPS Thanks to all retained clients attending our first FREE Health and Safety workshop. The topic was ‘How to deliver engaging Toolbox Talks’. The workshop was very well received and had some excellent feedback:

“Thanks for yesterday, the workshop was a good way of boosting my confidence regarding toolbox talks, I will definitely look at coming to other workshops” Desi Dean, Samsys Ltd

We aim to deliver our free workshops approximately every quarter. All retained clients will be informed. Please keep an eye on our bulletins and this newsletter for upcoming sessions.

FACE-FIT TESTINGWe have also held our first Face-fit testing ‘Open session’ where we have offered Face fit testing of respiratory protection to a number of clients followed by a ‘Train the Tester’ session.Face- fit testing is a legal requirement. Please ensure that you are compliant and get in touch for more details of our competitive pricing and when our next session will be.

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