Making Health and Safety Easy Royal Agricultural Society
Health and Safety doesn’t have to Complicate everything Scare the pants off you Create extra/hard work Be completely irrelevant to what you do Annoy Confuse people Be over the top Result in unintended consequences Etc, etc, etc ………
Its about people Why would it be ok to hurt someone? Deaths and injuries are often preventable
Impact of injuries Injuries as well as fatalities can destroy lives and families – fatalities alone are not a good measure of impact Injuries prevent people living the lives they choose – they can prevent people from being able to work and support their family; playing sport or being able to enjoy their families
Sophie Pascoe
At Risk Behaviour Human beings are programmed to take risks No risk no gain The reason for unsafe actions is that they have positive, immediate and certain consequences: Recognition for getting the job done quickly Taking risks is socially acceptable Respect for just getting on with it It is easier and faster
So what do I need to do?????? Don’t panic Mr Mannering The standard you walk by is the standard you accept Have a look yourself What would you want someone else to do if your child was at risk?
RAS Guide says…
Words, words, words Hazard A source or event, which has the potential to cause harm, injury, death, loss or damage to people, property/plant/equipment or the environment. A threat Risk Potential impact of an event, a combination of likelihood and consequences How the person interacts with a threat
Hazards and risks
Identifying hazards Check the physical environment (up, down and around) Ask yourself “what are the potential sources of harm here?” Think about how weather, people, animals etc will change the hazards Think through the whole day and week – the way the site will be used as you prepare for, run and disassemble your show Fixed site vs introduced hazards Other uses of your grounds
Who’s there? Who’s on your site? What are they doing? When are they doing it? How do they impact each other? What skills do they have? What animals and equipment are there?
RAS Guide says…
Decisions on risk mitigation Likelihood (probability) X Consequence (outcome) If you can’t live with the potential outcome it has to be addressed Context can be important e.g. proximity to public access Decide what is appropriate – you don’t have to apply the most expensive fix Review regularly, especially for new hazards or risks, changing context or new ways to mitigate Have a system for identifying hazards and managing risks
RAS Guide says…
RAS Guide says…
RAS templates
RAS HAS Guide
HAS Manual Instructions on second page – tell you what to change depending on your circumstances Gives you the basic requirements
35 Safety differently principles people are the solution, not the problem safety is about positives, not about the absence of negatives safety should be an ethical responsibility, not a bureaucratic activity
36 Why is being safe so hard? Someone needs to set expectations and an example – the leaders in the group – YOU!!!! Often leaders like the idea of things being different but when faced with having to do things differently themselves, lack the passion to role model We all have habits and routines, they come from repetition – we need to unlearn them The human condition is to expend less energy Allow people the dignity to change their stance
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