| Project | What | Where | When | Look out for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Slips and trips | To reduce the number of major injury slip and trip accidents by raising awareness and improving management of slips and trips. To also provide advice on practical control measures and take enforcement action where appropriate. | In food retail, hotels and catering. | All year (thought catering and hospitality from April – June 08). | Follow up to the Shattered Lives campaign from April – June 08. |
| Asbestos | To raise awareness of the duty to manage asbestos amongst building occupiers, and take enforcement action where there is poor compliance. Vocational college interventions aimed at young people entering high-risk maintenance trades – eg joiners, carpenters, plumbers, electricians | All sectors. | All year. |
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| Dermatitis | To raise awareness of dermatitis, provide advice and support to the industry, and take enforcement action where appropriate. | Hairdressing and beauty, and also in sectors where catering or cleaning is involved. | All year. | n/a |
| Asthma and other respiratory diseases | To reduce the incidence and raise awareness of these conditions, to promote use of appropriate control measures, and to take enforcement action where appropriate. Examine LEV/engineering controls at relevant visits. Enforce and promote new supermarket benchmark. |
Small bakeries and catering. Supermarket bakeries. LEV at other relevant visits. |
All year. | |
| MSDs | To raise awareness of MSDs, encourage reasonably practicable control measures, and take enforcement action as appropriate. | All sectors. | All year. | n/a |
Loading and unloading combining WPT and MSD in logical successor to Moving Goods Safely |
Inspection and awareness raising of activities in and around loading bays. Attendance at awareness raising events. | Loading bays in any industry. | All year. | |
| Noise | To raise awareness of the Control of Noise Regulations, and the availability of simple and practical industry-specific guidance to assist dutyholders. | Music and entertainment sector. | All year. | |
| Royal Mail | To achieve jointly established health and safety targets with an agreed timetable via local action plans. | Sorting and delivery offices. | All year. | n/a |
| Stress | To encourage financial services organisations to improve workers' health and wellbeing by using the Stress Management Standards for work-related stress, or an equivalent approach. | Financial services sector. | All year. | |
| Violence | To raise awareness of the work-related violence toolkit with duty holders, with follow-up work where appropriate. Also to seek engagement with LAAs and other partnerships where possible. | Retail, restaurants, and bars, pubs and clubs. | All year. | |
| Care homes and corporate social care providers | Follow up interventions to care homes following 2008/09 workshops Liaison to continue where lead PI arrangements have been established. | Relevant premises. | All year. |
Where relevant, FOD and LA staff should also use the following workstreams (in particular Director Leadership and Worker Involvement), to aid them in examining the overall management of health and safety:
| Issue | Proposed workstream |
|---|---|
| Director Leadership | Exploit all opportunities to engage at board level via face to face engagement with directors and encourage leadership behaviours at all times, recommending IoD/HSE guidance INDG 417. |
| Worker Involvement | Recognition of importance of Worker Involvement; improved involvement of workers/reps; ownership of issues. |
| Vulnerable Workers | Intelligence-led inspection of duty holders employing, especially, migrant workers. |
| Competence and Consultancy | Promote competence in terms of basic, sensible and proportionate health and safety management, and good practice use of third parties. Challenge and, where appropriate, enforce against, incompetent consultants. Consider opportunities to publicise both good and bad practices in consultancy. |