Revitalising health and safety: Advice, tools and evidence

Below are practical advice, evidence and some tools we have developed to help you in your business. These have come about through work which has been completed to address the recommendations in the RHS Strategy Statement's 44-point Action Plan [305kb] .

• Health and safety in annual reports
• Directors responsibilities for health and safety
• HSE's new case studies show the business benefits of health and safety
• Health and Safety Performance Management Index
• Worker involvement and consultation
• Securing Health Together

Health and Safety in annual reports

• Health and safety in annual reports: guidance from the Health and Safety Commission
  2 April 2001
  The government and the Health and Safety Commission believe that companies reporting on health and safety performance to common standards will help achieve national health and safety targets. This guidance explains how you should address health and safety issues in your company's published annual report on your business activities and performance.

Directors' responsibilities for health and safety

• Director leadership plays a vital role in ensuring high standards of health and safety at work. Directors’ responsibilities for health and safety are now contained within HSE’s new Corporate Responsibility web pages. Corporate Responsibility covers a wide range of issues, including the effects that an organisation’s business has on the environment, human rights and third world poverty. Health and safety in the workplace is an important Corporate responsibility issue.

HSE's new case studies show the business benefits of health and safety

• HSE's new case studies show the business benefits of health and safety
  These case studies set out the business case for good health and safety management. They span a wide range of industry sectors and public services. Each study describes an initiative or programme and its benefits in both health and safety and business terms.

Health and Safety Performance Management Index

• Corporate Health and Safety Performance Index
  A Corporate Health and Safety Performance Index (CHaSPI) has been launched by HSE. CHaSPI is a web-based tool to assist large private and public organisations with over 250 employees to get a measure of the effectiveness of their internal controls over health and safey, and to benchmark their performance against their own targets and the performance of their peers.
• A health and safety performance indicator for small and medium-sized enterprises has been developed in close liaison with insurers
  It should help SMEs to measure their health and safety performance and benchmark. It will also provide them with a means of showing brokers and insurers how they are performing.

Worker involvement and consultation

• Worker involvement and consultation
  Involving workers is fundamental to good health and safety. It means that everyone involved with a work activity (manager, employee, or contractor), participates in managing the risks associated with it.
  
  Worker involvement is a key element of the Health and Safety Commission’s (HSC) “Strategy for workplace health and safety in Great Britain to 2010 and beyond”. HSC and HSE are committed to supporting employers and workers to increase both the quality and quantity of worker involvement in sensible health and safety management.

Securing Health Together

• Securing Health Together
  This website was developed originally to support HSC's Securing Health Together strategy on occupational health (OH). It provides links to OH information and support. There is a project database containing examples of best practice where you will find information on solutions to situations, submitted by UK businesses, that might be similar to your own.
• Compare what you're doing with another major employer
  Since March 2004 the Energy Networks Association (ENA) has made available on its website SAFELEC 2010 Annual Progress Reports. They contain a variety of numeric and non-numeric targets where ENA Member Companies are working to share good practice. They chart the progress of the electricity industry towards meeting the targets set out in the Revitalising Health and Safety and Securing Health Together Strategies and show the electricity industry’s continuing commitment to putting health and safety at the top of the agenda.