Targeted Initiatives within the Manufacturing Industries
SIM 03/2008/06
Author unit / section: Manufacturing Sector
Target audience: All HSE and LA visiting staff
Summary
This SIM is to raise Inspector awareness of industry-specific injury reduction initiatives, know as Targeted Initiatives, within the Manufacturing Industries.
Background
1 Since the introduction of the Public Service Agreement (PSA) targets, Revitalising Health and Safety (RHS) in 2000, the Manufacturing Sector has been working closely with key stakeholders in Manufacturing Industries to secure improvements in workplace health and safety through Targeted Initiatives.
Introduction
2 A Targeted Initiative is a voluntary scheme through which HSE acting in ‘partnership’ encourages key stakeholders including Trade Associations, Trade Unions and other employee organisations such as professional bodies to take responsibility for driving down the number of RIDDOR reportable incidents in their sectors.
3 With limited exceptions these schemes are usually run and managed by the Industry, with Sector support, but without necessity for FOD intervention. The ‘Lead Partner’, usually the industry Trade Association agrees challenging health and safety targets that their members are invited to sign-up to.
4 Although the emphasis has been on reducing RIDDOR reportable injuries, schemes may address ill health and lost-time as well as setting targets which may be expressed as year on year improvements, such as a 20% reduction compared to the previous year or securing a specific reduction over a particular time period, for example a 50% reduction over a 5 year time period compared to a specified baseline.
5 To secure commitment to an initiative the chief executive or other senior manager within participating companies are invited to ‘sign-up’, often at a launch ceremony.
6 Members ‘signed-up’ to the initiatives are usually required to report annual progress towards the target to their Trade Association, typically by submitting incident information such as RIDDOR, Lost Time Incidents and Lost days data, and/or progress against targets set within the initiative e.g. numbers of people trained to specific level e.g. an NVQ Level 3, implementation of sickness absence management procedures.
Current Initiated Targets
| Industry |
Scheme Title |
Lead Partner |
Sector Team |
| Aluminium |
AIMS (Aluminium Industry Made Safer) |
Aluminium Federation (ALFED) |
Metals and Minerals |
| Cement |
Cementing Good Practice |
British Cement Association (BCA) |
Metals and Minerals |
| Ceramics |
Ceramics Pledge |
British Ceramics Confederation (BCC) |
Metals and Minerals |
| Concrete |
Concrete Targets 2010 |
British Pre-cast Concrete Federation (BPCF) |
Metals and Minerals |
| Foundries |
SHIFT (Safety and Health in Foundries Targets) |
Cast Metals Federation CMF) |
Metals and Minerals |
| Glass/ Glazing |
Glass Charter |
British Glass Confederation (BG) / Glass & Glazing Federation (GGF) |
Metals and Minerals |
| Metal Recycling |
Ten Point Plan |
British Metal Recycling Association (BMRA) |
Waste |
| Paper & Board |
Making a Difference: 2008 - 2011 |
PABIAC (Paper and Board Industry Advisory Committee) |
Rubber, Paper & Plastics |
| Quarries |
Target Zero |
QNJAC (Quarries National Joint Advisory Committee) |
Metals and Minerals |
| Rubber |
Rubbing out Risk |
RUBIAC (Rubber Industry Advisory Committee) |
Rubber, Paper & Plastics |
| Shipbuilding |
Shipshape |
Shipbuilders and Ship Repairers Association (SSA) |
Engineering, Ship Building/ Repair & Welding |
| Waste |
ESA Accident Reduction Charter |
Environmental Services Association (ESA) |
Waste |
| Wire |
Live Wire! |
UK Steel |
Engineering, Ship Building/ Repair & Welding |
Action Required
7 If Divisional operating plans include visits to industries covered by these initiatives, then during visits, visiting staff are invited to enquire of companies in the above industry sectors about their awareness of the relevant Targeted Initiative and ask to see the company action plan designed to contribute to the targets for their sector scheme.
8 Those which do not belong to an initiative may have their attention drawn to the benefits that membership of a scheme may confer in terms of injury and ill health reduction, access to industry-specific advice and guidance, the consequent financial benefits and be referred to relevant scheme contacts/web site (see Appendix for contact details).
9 Certain schemes will only accept members who belong to the relevant trade body e.g. Ceramic PLEDGE, whilst others such as AIMS will accept members irrespective of whether they belong to the trade association. Further details are given in the Appendix.
10 Where companies are signed up to an initiative it would assist if this could be recorded on COIN.
Sector Contacts
| Industry Sector |
Principal Inspector |
VPN |
Tel No |
| Engineering, Shipbuilding / repair & Welding |
Peter Woolgar |
510 6254 |
0121 607 6254 |
| Metals and Minerals |
Phil Smith |
512 2337 |
01782 60 2337 |
| Rubber, Paper and Plastics |
Terry Aston |
512 2338 |
01782 60 2338 |
| Textiles, Wood and Printing |
Tim Small |
513 2862 |
0115 971 2862 |
| Waste |
Paul Harvey |
511 3044 |
02920 263 044 |
Appendix A - Manufacturing Sector - An overview of Targeted Initiatives
1 This document provides an overview of Targeted Initiatives within the manufacturing industry.
2 Further information is available from the relevant sector contact or Appendix to the Greenstreet Berman Ltd, ‘Review of targeted initiatives in the manufacturing sector’ [this will be published in the near future].
Aluminium - Aluminium Industry Made Safer (AIMS)
- When was the scheme launched?
- Lead partner:
- Aluminium Federation (ALFED)
- Key targets and objectives:
- To achieve a 10% reduction in lost-time incident rate (compared to a 2006 baseline) over a three year period to 2010
- To promote effective risk management by:
- Sharing good-practice
- Organising demand-driven workshops on specific topics
- Holding a biennial safety conference for members
- Providing the opportunity for networking
- Liaising with regulators
- Members are required to sign up to AIMS, produce an action plan and submit LTI statistics annually to the Aluminium Federation (ALFED). The scheme is monitored by the Alfed Health & Safety Committee.
- Is the scheme open to non-trade association members?
- Yes
- Members of the ALFED do not have to pay to join the scheme. For non-trade association members there is a small fee (currently £95).
- Approximately how many companies are in the sector?
- Unknown. There are 113 Alfed members
- Employment
- 16,000 employed by Alfed members
- Further information
Cement - Cementing Good Practice
- When was the scheme launched?
- Lead partner
- British Cement Association (BCA)
- Key targets and objectives:
- Vision: To create an environment where accidents and ill-health do not occur
- Target: To achieve a 30% reduction in injury rates every year until 2010 (the 2010 target equates to a reduction of 92% from a 2003 baseline)
- Rates for employees and contractors under British Cement Association (BCA) members control include:
- RIDDOR fatal and major injury accident rate
- Lost time accident frequency rate (LTAFR)
- Severity rates
- Work related ill-health
- Further areas cover actions to address:
- Accidents caused by falls from height; transport; slips, trips and falls
- Management of the industry process operations, general maintenance and contractors working on site
- Occupational health including product safety
- Is the scheme open to non-trade association members?
- No. There are only 4 manufacturers in the sector (excluding one company that straddles the Irish border and the others that produce slag based cements etc) and all participate.
- Approximately how many companies are in the sector?
- Castle Cement, Tarmac (Buxton Lime), Lafarge and Cemex
- Large companies (250 – 1000 employees) – 25%
- Very large companies (>1000 employees) – 75%
- Employment
- Further information
Ceramics - Ceramics Pledge
- When was the scheme launched?
- 2001 - Revised, more stringent, targets and action plan are to be launched in 2008
- Lead partner
- British Ceramic Confederation (BCC)
- Key targets and objectives:
- To reduce ill-health, accidents and major/minor injury rates
- The scheme action plan applies to the whole ceramics industry including heavy clays (bricks, tiles, pipes etc) and refractories. Participants sign up to the Ceramics Industry Pledge.
- Targets
- To seek to achieve defined levels of improvement in reducing work related injury and ill-health throughout the ceramics industry;
- To reduce the number of working days lost per 100,000 workers from work-related injury and ill-health by 30% by 2010;
- To reduce the incidence rate of fatal and major injury accidents by 10% by 2010;
- To reduce the incidence rate of cases of work-related ill-health by 20% by 2010; and
- To achieve half the improvement under each target by 2004.
- Is the scheme open to non-trade association members?
- Approximately how many companies are in the sector?
- 150
- Small (11 – 50 employees) 29%
- Medium (51 – 250 employees) 45%
- Large (250 – 1000 employees) 23%
- Very large (1000+ employees) 3%
- 95% of companies participate in the initiative.
- Employment
- 25,000 employees
- 80% of employees are covered by the initiative.
- Further information
Concrete - Concrete Targets 2010
- When was the scheme launched?
- The original scheme ‘4 Star Awards / Concrete Targets’ was launched in 2001. Linked to the Revitalising Health and Safety (RHS) targets, it aims for a 50% reduction in RIDDOR reportable accidents and lost time by 2010.
- Phase 2, ‘Concrete Targets 2010’, was launched in 2006.
- Lead partner
- British Precast Concrete Federation (BPCF)
- Key targets and objectives:
- 50% reduction in RIDDOR reportable accidents by 2010;
- 50% reduction in lost time in 5 years;
- Development and implementation of a strategy for H&S initiatives and related training; and
- Implementation of structured H&S meetings in-house.
- Is the scheme open to non-trade association members?
- Approximately how many companies are in the sector?
- Employment
- Further information
Foundries – SHIFT (Safety and Health in Foundries Initiative)
- When was the scheme launched?
- The publication of ‘Revitalising Health and Safety’ promoted preliminary discussions involving the HSE, IAC, trade associations, professional associations and the unions.
- The initiative was launched in July 2003, one year after these first discussions.
- After a period of inactivity it was relaunched in 2007 with the introduction of quarterly SHIFT Forums to explore current health and safety issues, share good practice and provide networking opportunities for problem solving.
- Lead partner
- Cast Metals Federation (CMF) / Foundries Industry Advisory Committee (FIAC)
- Key targets and objectives:
- Reducing accident rates over a 5-year period by 30% in-line with RHS; and
- Recording accident rates accurately, as RIDDOR classifications are not adequate for the foundries industry. Once a true picture is obtained, it will be easier to identify and tackle the key issues.
- Is the scheme open to non-trade association members?
- Approximately how many companies are in the sector?
- 520 foundries
- Locations:
- South West 8%;
- East Midlands 14%;
- West Midlands 31%;
- Yorkshire and Humberside 15%;
- Size:
- Micro (< 10 employees) 10%;
- Small (11 to 50 employees) 38%;
- Medium (51 to 250 employees) 40%; and
- Large (250 to 1000 employees) 12%.
- Employment
- Further information
Glass / Glazing - Glass Charter
- When was the scheme launched?
- The initiative was first launched to the glass manufacturing sector in 2001 with the glazing sector being invited to participate in 2003.
- Lead partner
- British Glass and Glass & Glazing Federation (BG / GGF).
- Key targets and objectives:
- 30% reduction in accidents across sector by 2010;
- Evidence of up to date Health and Safety Policy;
- Submission of a safety improvement plan to scheme administrator;
- Appointment of a Director responsible for H&S to ensure H&S at top of board agenda;
- Agree and submit accident statistics annually; and
- Participation in Glass Charter Merit Scheme.
- Is the scheme open to non-trade association members?
- No.
- Participation in the initiative is mandatory for all new Glass and Glazing Federation (GGF) members.
- Approximately how many companies are in the sector?
- Not known. There are many small to medium sized companies in this sector.
- Employment
- Website
Metal (Recycling) – Ten Point Plan
- When was the scheme launched?
- The Metal (recycling) industry does not have a formal HSE initiative however the industry launched its own strategy in 2006 to reduce the number of incidents and cases of occupational health occurring through The British Metals Recycling Association (BMRA) Health and Safety ‘Ten Point Plan’.
- Lead partner
- BMRA – Health, Safety and Training Committee.
- Key targets and objectives:
- To raise member awareness of health and safety issues affecting the metals recycling sector;
- To improve the health and safety performance of the sector; and
- To further strengthen relations and consult with the HSE.
- Ten Point Plan
- Is the scheme open to non-trade association members?
- Approximately how many companies are in the sector?
- Unknown, however 268 companies are members of BMRA.
- Employment
- Further information
Paper & Board - Making a Difference 2008 – 2011
- When was the scheme launched?
- ThePaper and Board Industry Advisory Committee (PABIAC) launched “Making a Difference” in April 2005 to cover the period 2005 - 2008. A new strategy ‘Making a Difference 2008– 2011’ is due to be launched in April 2008.
- Lead partners
- Employersassociations and trades unions represented on PABIAC.
- Key targets and objectives:
- To reduce non-fatal injury rates for employees;
- To reduce the number of working days lost by 9%;
- To ensure that all sites within the industry are able to demonstrate that they have in place a safety management system that meets a recognised standard;
- That all employers within the industry are able to demonstrate that they have a continuously improving safety climate with senior management commitment using a suitable survey tool; and
- That all employers are able to demonstrate that they have an active rehabilitation scheme; and that they make use of an internal or external occupational health service.
- Is the scheme open to non-trade association members?
- Approximately how many companies are in the sector?
- Corrugated packaging manufacture - 27 companies who are members of the Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) with 129 sites (producing 75% of output). Some of these sites are run more or less as SMEs. There are 250 organisations that are not members of the CPI (covering 280 sites). Companies 277; Total sites 409.
- Paper and tissue making - 44 organisations representing 65 mills. 9 mills are not members of the CPI, but it is thought that they are working towards the “Making a Difference” strategy.
- Recovered Paper - 33 Organisations representing 91 sites that are members of the CPI 48 organisations are members of Independent Waste Paper Processors Association (IWPPA) – total number of sites unknown.
- Total companies 402: members of the scheme 104 (26%).
- Employment
- Employment data: 18,000 employees (11,000 members of the CPI; 7,000 non-members).
- Further information
Quarries - Target Zero
- When was the scheme launched?
- The first phase of the initiative, ‘Hard Target’ was launched in late 1999 / early 2000. The second phase ‘Target Zero’ was launched in October 2005.
- Lead partner
- Quarries National Joint Advisory Committee (QNJAC).
- Key targets and objectives:
- The Hard Target objective was to reduce accident rates by 50% in five years; it achieved a 52% reduction. Under Target Zero there is an interim target to reduce RIDDOR reportable injuries by a further 50% by 2010 (compared to the 2004-2005 figures) with the ultimate objective of achieving zero by 2015.
- The initiative is managed by the Quarries National Joint Advisory Committee (QNJAC) which has as it objectives:
- Promoting health and safety throughout the quarrying and associated industries via an agreed work programme;
- Discussion of the application and implementation of existing health and safety legislation;
- Providing a forum to explain HSEs operational policy;
- Consulting on draft legislation and European proposals;
- Discussing draft material from HSC/E, trade associations, trades unions and other interested parties;
- Raising health and safety concerns of the quarrying and associated industries with manufacturers and suppliers of machinery, plant and equipment;
- Raising training standards and competence of employees; and
- Producing industry specific guidance and training materials and agreed methods of production.
- The objectives for the Hard Target workplan were:
- To review and promote the provision of all-round visibility aids as standard practice for vehicles used in both the quarry and waste disposal sectors;
- To review and promote occupational health management in the quarry industry;
- To review and promote training and competence in the quarry industry;
- To review and promote the provision of safe access, particularly for maintenance on fixed and mobile quarry plant;
- To establish a subcommittee to address access onto earth moving vehicles with manufacturers and suppliers; and
- To review good practices in the recycling industry and promote these as appropriate in the quarry industry.
- These have been carried forward into a Target Zero workplan, currently under development and due to be launched in 2008, which will include revised objectives together with performance indicators covering:
- Contractors;
- Education & Training;
- Drilling & Blasting;
- Occupational Health;
- Plant;
- Road Haulage; and
- Worker Involvement.
- Is the scheme open to non-trade association members?
- Yes.
- It is actively promoted by trade bodies, on websites including HSE’s and through the media including the ‘Quarry Factfile’ magazine.
- Approximately how many companies are in the sector?
- 625 quarry operators are listed in the 2005 industry directory. The Opencast Coal sector has 6 major organisations, all members of their Trade Association ‘COALPRO’.
- Employment
- 95,000 employees (60,000 - employed in quarry industry; 35,000 – hauliers)
- Further information
Rubber - Rubbing out Risk
- When was the scheme launched?
- The Rubber Industry Advisory Committee (RUBIAC) three year action plan, first launched in June 1999 assisted the tyre, retread and general rubber goods sectors of the rubber industry to deliver an improved health and safety performance. This resulted in the achievement of a 34% reduction in its RIDDOR incident rate. To consolidate this improvement and to deliver improvements in health and safety performance across the wider rubber industry the RUBIAC Health & Safety Strategy 2006-09 “Rubbing Out Risks” was launched in April 2006.
- Lead partners
- Employers associations and trades unions represented on RUBIAC. As well as employers associations representing the tyre manufacturing, tyre retreading and general rubber goods manufacturing industries, they include those involved in tyre distribution and retail and recovery of used tyres.
- Key targets and objectives:
- By 31 May 2009 the number of working days lost each year in the industry through accidents and occupational ill health will have been reduced by 9% compared with the number of days lost for the year 1 Apr 2004 to 31 Mar 2005
- By 31 May 2009 all employers in the industry will have in place, and be able to demonstrate, a safety management system that meets the approach set out in a recognised standard such as HSG 65 or OHSAS 18001
- By 31 May 2009 all employers in the industry will have established, and be able to demonstrate, a continuously improving safety climate in their businesses.
- By 31 May 2009 all employers in the industry will be able to demonstrate they have:
- access to and are making use of the services of either an in-house or external occupational health service provider; and
- put in place a documented active rehabilitation scheme.
- By 31 May 2009 the industry’s reported MSD rate will have decreased to below 450 per 100,000 employees.
- By 31 May 2009 the industry’s reported workplace transport accident injury rate will have decreased by 10%.
- By 31 May 2009 the industry’s reported slips and trips rate will have decreased by 10%.
- By 31 May 2009 all employers in the industry will have in place, control measures that ensure exposures to rubber dust and fume are kept below 50% of the workplace exposure limit (WEL).
- Is the scheme open to non-trade association members?
- Approximately how many companies are in the sector?
- The new industries represented on RUBIAC are largely small and medium sized firms. In total RUBIAC now extends its influence to around 1000 firms employing over 70,000 people.
- Further information
Shipbuilding / Repair - Shipshape
- When was the scheme launched?
- The Shipbuilding and Ship-repairers Health and Safety Consultative Committee (SSHSCC) and the HSE were involved in preliminary discussions. These discussions, prompted by the publication of the HSC's ‘A Strategy for workplace health and safety in Great Britain to 2010 and beyond’, and the fact that shipbuilding accident rates were twice that of other manufacturing industries lead to the launch of the initiative in April 2004.
- Due to the reduction of the industry ‘Shipshape’ no longer exists as a vehicle to reduce injury rates throughout the sector, but as a private collaborative working environment on the internet to share information.
- Lead partner
- Shipbuilders and Ship Repairers Association (SSA)
- Key targets and objectives:
- There are currently no targets and objectives, although the industry hopes to achieve:
- The sharing of good practice and tools to implement health and safety improvements – seeking practical measures, and
- A reduction in accident and absence rates.
- Is the scheme open to non-trade association members?
- Yes. When SSA took over the lead for SSHSCC, there was concern that non-member organisations would be pushed out. A condition of SSA taking the lead was that the scheme would always remain open to anyone who wished to join.
- Approximately how many companies are in the sector?
- 60 shipyards
- Size:
- Medium (51 to 250 employees) 80%
- Large (250 to 1000 employees) 5%
- Very large (>1000 employees) 15%
- Employment
- 20,000 direct employees; and a further 30,000 including subcontractors, suppliers and support.
- Further information
Waste - ESA Accident Reduction Charter
- When was the scheme launched?
- The Environmental Services Association (ESA) set up a health and safety working group in 2000 comprising of a spread of member companies, large, medium and small. The Bomel report of 2001/02 was an opportunity for HSE to raise H&S issues with the industry. The scheme was launched in 2004.
- Lead partner
- Environmental Services Association.
- Key targets and objectives:
- The ESA Code of Conduct requires all companies to:
- Reduce the incident rate of RIDDOR reportable accidents by 10% each year until 2007;
- Eliminate fatalities by the end of that period; and
- Reduce the incidence rate of cases of work-related ill-health by 20% by 2010.
- The baseline year for measuring progress against the targets is 2002.
- Members will select the actions from the ESA/HSE action plan which will have the greatest benefit in reducing accidents on a company-specific basis and which would complement current internal health and safety initiatives.
- Is the scheme open to non-trade association members?
- Approximately how many companies are in the sector?
- Not known. There are many very small companies in the sector.
- Number of companies involved in the initiative:
- Medium 51 to 250 employees 10;
- Large 250 to 1000 employees 10; and
- Very large >1000 employees 6.
- The bulk of activity is undertaken by the largest 6 companies.
- Employment
- 162,500 employees (HSE Statistics);
- 45,000 employees work for companies who are members of ESA (ESA Statistics).
- Further information
Wire - Live Wire!
- When was the scheme launched?
- Lead partner
- Key targets and objectives:
- To reduce accidents in the wire industry by 10% during 2007 over the 2006 rate (accident frequency per 100,000 hours worked will be used as the baseline and performance measurement).
- Is the scheme open to non-trade association members?
- Yes. Participation is open to any UK wire industry company. Eligibility criteria stipulate that participating companies will need to conduct an active campaign involving management and the workforce to reduce accidents in their workplaces. Campaign eligibility specifics include an agreement for:
- sharing best practice with other wire companies;
- reporting all accidents in a verifiable way;
- confidential disclosure to UK Steel of annual RIDDOR incidents and total hours worked;
- permission for anonymous inclusion in an industry league table; and
- conducting an internal selection process to put forward an individual who has contributed most towards health and safety in their workplace.
- Further information
