Health and safety in waste management and recycling - Waste Industry Safety and Health (WISH) Forum
- What is WISH?
- WISH charter and strategic objectives
- How do WISH members intend to achieve the strategic objectives?
- WISH Commitment to competence
- Minutes from WISH meetings
- Can I attend a WISH meeting?
- WISH members
- WISH good practice guidance
What is WISH?
Representatives from the waste management and recycling industry have come together to form the Waste Industry Safety and Health (WISH) forum. WISH members include representatives from HSE, main trade associations, professional associations, trade unions, recycling organisations and national and local government bodies involved in waste management and recycling.
The aim of WISH is to identify, devise and promote activities to improve industry health and safety standards.
WISH charter and strategic objectives
How do WISH members intend to achieve the strategic objectives?
- The Environmental Services Association (ESA) has recently adopted an Accident Reduction Charter. This aims to reduce ESA’s members’ accident incidence rate by 10% each year for the next five years.
- HSE has developed a programme of work which aims to reduce the RIDDOR accident rate by 10% each year, understand and identify measures to reduce occupational ill health and to ensure occupational health and safety is an integral part of the specification, procurement and management of muncipal waste/recycling contracts.
- The Chartered Institute of Wastes Management (CIWM) and Energy & Utility Skills have yet to confirm their intentions.
WISH Commitment to competence
The WISH forum: Commitment to competence is designed to support the industry in raising staff competency levels. It is hoped that this will help to reduce accidents and occupational ill health.
WISH meeting minutes
- May 2009
- January 2009
- September 2008
- April 2008
- January 2008
- September 2007
- May 2007
- January 2007
- October 2006
- April 2006
- January 2006
- October 2005
- January 2005
- September 2004
Can I attend a WISH meeting?
If you would like to attend a WISH meeting as an observer, please email Dr Toni Gladding at t.l.gladding@open.ac.uk
WISH members
The following organisations are members of the WISH forum:
| Organisation | Representative |
|---|---|
| Association for Organics Recycling | Jeremy Jacobs |
| British Metals Recycling Association | Howard Bluck |
| Chartered Institute of Wastes Management | Toni Gladding Geoff Smallwood |
| Community Recycling Network UK | Mal Williams |
| Container Handling Equipment Manufacturers Association | David Buxton |
| Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | John Galvin |
| Energy and Utility Skills | Richard Johnson |
| Environment Agency | David Bliss |
| Environmental Services Association | Chris Jones Paul Thornber |
| Health and Safety Executive | Chantal Nicholls Colin Mew |
| Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee | Mark Foxall |
| Local Government Employers | Steve Sumner |
| Trades Union Congress | John McLean Vincent Borg |
| Waste Management Industry Training and Advisory Board | Lawrence Strong |
| Waste Resources Action Programme (WRAP) | Dick Perry |
Good practice guidance
(These are HSE/WISH documents except for Waste Sheets 10, 15, 18 and 20, which were produced solely by HSE.)
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