Health and Safety in our workplaces
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Presented by: Gordon MacDonald, WorkSafe NZ at OHSIG 2014, Wednesday 10/9/14, Plenary session, 8.30am
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Health and Safety in our workplaces
- 1. HEALTH AND SAFETY IN OUR WORKPLACES HASANZ CONFERENCE GORDON MACDONALD, CHIEF EXECUTIVE, WORKSAFE NZ 10 SEPTEMBER 2014
- 2. 2 STATEMENT OF INTENT 2013-14 OUR PRIORITIES 1. Targeting risk: focus on acute, chronic & catastrophic harms 2. Working together: work collaboratively with others for maximum effect 3. Rebuilding Canterbury safely: focus on construction, occupational health & high-risk populations 4. Working smarter: implement a clearer regulatory regime 5. Strengthening our organisation: build a high-performance agency
- 3. A transition from mostly… Reactive (bottom of cliff) Incidents Outputs Hazard/Symptom Starting with solutions Individual practitioner variation Working in isolation as an agency to mostly … Proactive and targeted Patterns Outcomes Root causes Intelligence and context-led Guided decision-making Engaged and collaborative WHAT’S NEEDED 3
- 4. 4 WORKING TOGETHER WITH EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYEES WorkSafe NZ’s three “E”s : • Educate • Engage • Enforce
- 5. 5 OUR COMMITMENT Putting the health back into workplace health and safety
- 6. 6 THE FORGOTTEN KILLER • 600 to 900 deaths every year • Cancer • Respiratory disease • NIHL, skin irritants, psycho-social hazards
- 7. 7 WE ARE ACTING NOW • Trade seminars in collision repair sector • Developing new asbestos regulations • Canterbury rebuild programme asbestos conference for 250 people • Commissioned a clean air work package
- 8. 8 WORKSAFE’S DIRECTION OF TRAVEL • More strategic approach • Clearer priorities, targets and measures in occupational health • Clear accountability internally • Improved capacity and capability • More industry and worker engagement on the issue
- 9. 9 DEVELOPING A STRATEGY • Early 2015 in action • Build awareness of occupational health • Resource our work and put targets to it • Make occupational health integral to what we do
- 10. 10 HEALTH AND SAFETY AT WORK ACT
- 11. 11 THE KEY ISSUES • Achieving results together • Leadership • Worker engagement • Regulatory structure
- 12. 12 KEY ISSUES • Achieving results together • PCBU • Supply Chain
- 13. 13 HEALTH AND SAFETY REFORM BILL IN THE CASE OF MULTIPLE PCBUS
- 14. 14 KEY ISSUES - LEADERSHIP • Officers have a due diligence duty • It is individual to officers • Includes taking reasonable steps to: • acquire, and keep up-to-date, knowledge of work health and safety matters • gain an understanding of the nature of the operations of the business or undertaking of the PCBU and generally of the hazards and risks associated with those operations • ensure that the PCBU has available for use, and uses, appropriate resources and processes to eliminate or minimise risks to health and safety from work carried out as part of the conduct of the business or undertaking • ensure that the PCBU has appropriate processes for receiving and considering information regarding incidents, hazards and risks and for responding in a timely way to that information • ensure that the PCBU has, and implements, processes for complying with any duty or obligation of the PCBU under the Act • verify the provision and use of the resources and processes referred to above.
- 15. 15 KEY ISSUES – WITH YOUR WORKERS • Worker Engagement
- 16. 16 KEY ISSUES – REGULATORY STRUCTURE • Supporting guidance • Regulations
- 17. Everyone who goes to work comes home healthy and safe Everyone has a role to play worksafe.govt.nz 0800 030 040
Notes de l'éditeur
- Good morning I am delighted to be here with you and I want to start by running through the priorities WorkSafe has decided upon before discussing the approach we are going to take on occupational health issues.
- The Board has settled on these as WorkSafe NZ’s priorities First, WorkSafe NZ is focused on businesses at high risk of acute, chronic or catastrophic harms or where there is a history of risk, without placing an unnecessary burden on low-risk businesses. IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE that this risk-focused approach to our work WILL mean that some work we have traditionally done will no longer be a focus for us. In working on risk, some things while important to those suffering the harm and the businesses that employ them will not be investigated, although we will continue to require them to be reported to us This will ensure that we can keep abreast of trends so that if we’re seeing a spike in a no further action segment, we can adjust our approach Second, WorkSafe NZ is taking every opportunity to our collaboration, shared problem solving and alignment with key players. We want to build good working relationships. In discussions around the country, it has been very clear to me that we need to be more engaged with our communities of interest. It is also clear to me and my leadership team that closer relationships with other Government agencies will make a major contribution to better outcomes. The obvious space here is ACC and we are building a much stronger relationship across all parts of both agencies to align our work and build strength from each others’ work Third, we are focused on the Canterbury rebuild, which as you know, is of an unprecedented size and scale in NZ history. You’ll note I mention occupational health here in the Canterbury context – don’t be concerned at this apparent narrow focus – we have a wider approach which I will come to in a moment. Fourth, we want to support business through our education and information function so businesses know what they need to do. Finally, we’re working hard to build a high-performing agency with well-trained people and robust systems. We are actively recruiting new inspectors and designing a comprehensive training/development programme for them
- WorkSafe has had a team out on the road in recent months working up a plan for how we are going work. We’re calling it an intervention approach and it will outline what we are going to do, not only to contribute to reaching the target, but also to provide surety to you about a better and more strategic approach so that you can work with us. It is really important that you understand and commit to supporting the work of the regulator. We are close to finalising that approach and the base for it is that our operations need to transition – and please note the “to mostly” – which means some of the “from mostly” will still have to be done. (((Read from slide as required)))
- It is important to make clear that while we moving to a risk approach, the basic role of the regulator will not be forgotten. We have three roles now and we will have the same three roles after the passage of the new legislation. - Educate about workplace health and safety responsibilities - Engage with workplaces in making changes that reduce the chances of harm - Enforce workplace health and safety. Our increasing engagement role does not change these focus areas and does not in any way constrain our ability to enforce in the face of apparent transgressions Enforcement actions will always be one of the tools in the regulator’s toolbox. And WorkSafe NZ will not back away from prosecuting where appropriate, but without educating and engaging New Zealand’s workers and business people we will never achieve the sort of positive change that WorkSafe was established to lead.
- So, occupational health – we are determined that health gets the attention it deserves in the health and safety environment. Everyone in this room knows that occupational health has been the poorest of poor cousins in the health and safety environment There have been a few dedicated, but largely unheard, champions for occupational health, but they simply have not been able to get the traction the issue deserves. It is frankly an outrage in a country this size that we have the fatality numbers we do and depending upon your statistician there are 6 to 9 hundred a year. Without in any way dismissing the seriousness or impact of the deaths – there were 10 in forestry last year and the country is galvanised. How is it that deaths of nearly a hundred-fold higher remain under the radar.
- The estimates vary – and that too is an issue – we don’t have very good data – but potentially 400 or more work-related deaths are caused by occupational cancer About 200 are thought to die of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, occupational asthma and asbestosis each year Then you come to noise, the effects of wet work, and the really hidden and probably least understood occupational health risk – the impact of stress, fatigue and substance abuse amongst the other elements of the psycho-social continuum. It is clear we have a problem and we – not just WorkSafe, but all of us – must act.
- WorkSafe is acting and addressing some of the issues - and these are just four of a number of our initiatives. But a properly developed and supported strategy to address this set of forgotten killers is needed
- This is where we are heading – these actions are designed to get the regulator in the right place with the right people, with effective capabilities properly supported by good data and working to strategy. It is a more strategic approach – our past performance has been very reactive where we responded to the results of occupational health issues but with n focus on the root causes creating the issues we were dealing with.
- We have a team working internally to develop our strategy which we aim to begin implementing by early next year. We are focusing on building awareness and demonstrating that we are taking this issue seriously by putting resources behind the words of the strategy. I have no doubt that we will be talking to many, if not all of you, as we build and head to implementation, and I welcome your thoughts and contributions to the work we’ll have to do.
- Guidance Critical to the success of the new model Very significant issue in our consultation around the country recently Significant capability and capacity build almost complete in our Standards and Guidance team 40 pieces of guidance on the priority list as of today Regulations Regulations development in two phases First phase is focused on developing regulations for: General risk and workplace management Worker participation and representation Work involving hazardous substances Major hazard facilities Work involving asbestos