The HSC Business Plan for 2005-06 to 2007-08

Delivering HSC’s Strategy through HSE’s Strategic Programmes

12. HSC’s Strategy sets out how HSE, local authorities (LAs) and other stakeholders in the health and safety system should work together more effectively to improve health and safety in Great Britain. The Strategy’s four themes underlie the development of the Strategic Programmes and the achievement of the targets:

• Developing closer partnerships
• Helping people to benefit from effective health and safety
• Focusing on our core business and the right interventions where we are best placed to reduce workplace injury and ill health
• Communicating effectively.

Targets

13. In 2000, the Government and HSC set national targets for health and safety improvements by 2010 as part of ‘Revitalising Health and Safety’. The RHS indicators have been adopted as part of a new Public Service Agreement (PSA), committing DWP to:

“By 2008 improve health and safety outcomes in Great Britain through progressive improvement in the control of risks in the workplace.”

14. The PSA targets are, by 2007/08, to reduce:

• The incidence rate of fatal and major injuries by 3%
• The incidence rate of work-related ill health by 6%
• The number of working days lost per 100,000 workers from injury and ill health by 9%
• The number of events reported by licence holders, which HSE's Nuclear Installations Inspectorate judges as having the potential to challenge a nuclear safety system by 7.5%, based on a 2001/02 baseline
• The number of major and significant hydrocarbon releases in the offshore oil and gas sector by 45%, based on a 2001/02 baseline
• The number of relevant RIDDOR reportable dangerous occurences in the onshore sector by 15%, based on a 2001/02 baseline.

For Further information see http://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/plans/sr2004.htm. The overall strategic performance framework is shown below:

HSE’s Strategic Programmes

15. HSE has set up Strategic Programmes as the main agent for delivering the HSC Strategy and the health and safety outcomes necessary to deliver the PSA. Two Strategic Delivery Programmes (SDPs), Fit for work, fit for life, fit for tomorrow, and Major Hazards, will be supported by four Strategic Enabling Programmes (STEPs), as shown below.

‘Fit for Work, Fit for Life, Fit for Tomorrow’ Strategic Delivery Programme