Issue - decisions
Annual Report on Health and Safety Performance for 2017/2018
18/10/2018 - Annual Report on Health and Safety Performance for 2017/2018
RESOLVED:
i) The contents of the report are accepted; particularly noting:
· Good progress has been made during 2017/2018 on managing health and safety across the Council.
· Reportable employee accidents to the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) have increased and minor accidents have decreased compared to last year’s figures.
· Benchmarking with other Unitary Councils show that Shropshire Council performs well in terms of accident statistics.
· Service Areas and the Health & Safety Team work well together.
· The Council continues to maintain a good relationship with the HSE.
ii) The Key Actions for 2018/2019 are agreed
The key actions for Shropshire Council are:
· Development of external contracts with associated Service Level Agreements (SLA) in place.
· To fulfil contractual monitoring and support to Academies and customers under Service Level Agreements
· Continue updating and monitoring of Workstation Safety Plus to reduce risks associated with musculoskeletal disorders.
· Raise awareness of workstation assessments in particular agile working.
· Continuation of staff wellbeing events throughout the year.
· Support ‘Leap into Learning’ development for e-learning health and safety awareness courses across service areas.
· Digital Transformation Programme – support development for the management of accident data and case management arrangements for occupational health.
· To engage with Service Areas to ensure that health and safety compliance is in place and to review Self-Monitoring Checklist to ensure roll out to Premise and Team Managers .
· To continue to implement the Wellbeing Plan and facilitate three themes of Be Active, Be Minded and Be Informed
· Market and deliver new Defibrillator course that has been developed