Health and Safety
Executive / Commission
Securing Health Together
This programme aimed to increase knowledge of occupational health by improving data processing methods, in order to help us to move the strategy forward and monitor its success.
The Knowledge Programme Action Group (PAG) priorities included agreeing data needs and setting up and managing systems for collecting information, agreeing a coordinated research programme, commissioning and conducting research, and encouraged collaborators in this area to use a coordinated and standardised approach by 2010. We also encouraged employers and workers to join forces when identifying their data needs so they understand clearly what problems they may face.
HSE held a workshop of interested stakeholders on 12th December 2000 to discuss firstly the baselines and measuring progress for the occupational ill health targets set in Securing Health Together; and secondly the opportunities for new ways of collecting data on work-related ill health. A note of the baseline workshop and copies of the the Knowledge PAGs meeting notes are available on request from the:
Securing Health Together Team
8SW, Rose Court
2 Southwark Bridge London,
SE1 9HS.
The members of the Knowledge PAG were:
Dr David Fisk Director, Central Strategy & Chief Scientist Directorate, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR)
Chris Ball National Secretary, Manufacturing, Science & Finance Union (MSF)
Jackie Barker Head, Corporate Information Services NHS Directorate, National Assembly for Wales
Arun Bhoopal Public Health Information Specialist, Statistics Division, Department of Health (DH) Professor Tom Cox Director, Institute of Work, Health & Organisations, University of Nottingham Jackie Douglas Director, The Colt Foundation
Dr Ursula Ferriday Senior Medical Adviser UK, Occupational Health Department, Unilever plc Mairi Gaffney National Occupational Health Advisor, Health, Safety and Fire Advisory Service, Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS)
Rosemary Griggs Deputy Director, Employment Conditions & Statistics Division, Cabinet Office Nick Hallett Head, ESAU, SASD Economic & Statistical Analysis Unit, HSE
Tim Hibbert Director, TPH Associates Jim Hillage Associate Director, Institute for Employment Studies, University of Sussex
Alastair Mason Unit of Health-Care and Epidemiology, Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oxford
Brenda Mendham Research & Development Manager, The Forum of Private Business
Prof Tony Newman Taylor Consultant Physician, Head, Department of Occ & Env Medicine, Medical & Research Director, The Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust
Dr Colin Soutar Chief Executive, Institute of Occupational Medicine
Mr Alan Spence Statistician, Epidemiology & Medical Statistics Unit, HSE
This Programme Action Group has now completed its discussions and the final report is available.