FEATURE
SKILLS & TRAINING A lack of laboratory skills places them in a reverse ‘brain
drain’ when competing for British industry jobs against foreign students from countries which continue to teach the importance of evidence-based science and a technical approach. Like languages, fluency isn’t achieved by reading a book.
INDUSTRY RECRUITMENT NEEDS The Science Industry Partnership (EOP, 2014) recently published a consultation on the UK's future science skills base needs and identified important issues. The overall cumulative demand for science staff in the
COGENT sector (broadly, chemistry and life sciences) up to 2025 is forecast to be in the range of 180,000 to 260,000, including 77,000 new jobs. Excluding academia and the NHS, this sector employs
500,000 science staff across the UK. In the manufacturing and engineering sector, SEMTA (the
Sector Skills Council for Science, Engineering and Manufacturing Technologies) quotes 1.6 million workers with about 40% in technology-related roles, and the Gatsby Foundation (a charity which offers grants in various fields including science and engineering education) says there are over 1.5 million STEM technicians employed across the entire UK workforce. With 50,000 technicians retiring each year, Gatsby
forecasts an annual requirement for 70,000 technicians to meet demand. In 2012, the Royal Academy of Engineering suggested
that as many as 100,000 more STEM graduates would be needed by 2020 as innovation and high-tech manufacturing grow.
LACK OF PRACTICE In 2013, 124,000 UK undergraduates and 57,000 postgraduates entered industry-relevant higher education, while only 8,000 graduates a year are recruited into science industries.
Manage Safety The Smart Way
“Health and safety management is often the butt of jokes and groans across organisations. It is not a popular subject area in the UK but failures by organisations in this crucial area of responsibility to their employees cause both considerable hardship to those effected and great cost to organisations” says David Smith, director of iMS Risk Solutions and chairman of the ISO international committee responsible of the development of the new ISO45001 occupational health and safety management systems standard.
The key to effective occupational health and safety management is a positive culture towards the protection of those at work and putting in place effective management arrangements. The new ISO 45001 is focussed on the preventative approach and follows the well-established OHSAS 18001 with a management framework applying the models used for managing environmental impacts and quality management. Other key areas are:
• Integrating with business processes • Involvement and participation of workers • The more demanding role of top management
Update on ISO 45001 Derby - 7th July
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For organisations that already manage safety with a formal system such as OHSAS18001 you should not be concerned about migration to the new standard. For others seeking to demonstrate a more effective approach to managing occupational health and safety, or who simply want to do better, the new standard could be for you.
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Do you want to know more about new requirements in management standards?
• Context and leadership • Integrating with business processes • Managing risk and opportunity • Setting and managing performance • Migrating to new standards
iMS Risk Solutions can help you with: • Management systems training and auditing
• Integrated management system training & implementation – PAS99
• Occupational health and safety management systems – OHSAS18001 and transition to ISO45001
• Environmental management systems – ISO14001
• Risk management – ISO31000 • Quality management systems – ISO9001
28 business network June 2016
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