BUSINESSES URGED TO PREPARE FOR SERIOUS INCIDENTS “Therefore, it’s hugely important that


Organisations must be prepared for serious incidents to ensure they can respond promptly and effectively if the worst happens, health and safety managers and other business leaders heard at a meeting in Leicester. About 100 people responsible for protecting


workers attended the event held by IOSH's Food and Drink Industries Group. They heard that serious incidents like workplace


fatalities can happen in the best-managed workplaces, focusing on a hypothetical incident where someone was killed after being struck by a forklift truck in a warehouse. The discussion focused on how businesses


should be prepared for a major incident, the steps they should take in the immediate


aftermath and the process of an investigation. Andy Melachrino, chair of the IOSH group, said:


“No matter how good an organisation’s health and safety management systems are, sometimes accidents do happen, whether it’s caused by an individual’s behaviour or another reason.


organisations have got policies in place for how they respond. They must be ready; it’s as simple as that. “That is what today’s event has been about.


Workplace accidents have hugely serious consequences for organisations and, of course, for the people involved. We wanted to provide guidance on this for delegates, so they can go back to their workplace and examine their own policies and procedures.” In 2017-18, there were 144 workplace fatalities


in Britain. The main causes were falls from height (35), being struck by a moving vehicle (26) and being struck by a moving object (26). exclusive.iosh.com


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W BIG FIRMS SET TO FEEL THE PAIN OF THE APPRENTICESHIP LEVY


elcome to the


Spring issue of Industrial Compliance. BS EN 60204:2018 was


published in the UK last September, with the target date for publication in all European Member States being 14 March 2019. In an article on page 18, you can find out the differences between the new standard and IEC 60204:2016 to ensure you meet electrical safety requirements. Also in this issue, we consider


the benefits of top quality fall protection training. Fall protection training remains largely unaudited but an investment in quality training can add read value to your business while improving the general wellbeing of your workforce. You can find out more on page 28.


Victoria White - Editor


Big firms will feel the pain of the Apprenticeship Levy this spring when the first wave of levy payments will be wiped from their accounts unless they have invested them in training apprentices. Apprenticeship provider Develop Training Limited


(DTL) says the deadline should focus attention on making the controversial initiative work. Companies with payrolls above £3 million have


been paying into the scheme since its launch in April 2017 and continue to do so monthly. They can get the money back if they invest it in apprenticeship programmes with approved providers such as DTL, but there is a two-year deadline. That means in April this year, levy payments


dating back to the start of the scheme will go to the Treasury, and funds will continue to be funnelled away each month on the second anniversary of when they were paid in. So, for example, the levy payments that companies made in September 2017 will no longer be available to invest in apprenticeship programmes from September 2019. The levy was supposed to encourage firms to invest in


apprenticeships but confusion and concerns about costs meant the scheme initially had the opposite effect. DTL hosted an Industry Skills Forum in late 2017 for


leading figures in HR in construction and the utilities that highlighted wildly varying views on the levy, from companies that were embracing it to train new and existing employees to those who saw it as a tax. Since then the government has tweaked the


scheme significantly, reducing the amount of levy payments and allowing smaller companies to use levy money to help other organisations finance their own apprenticeship training, typically those in the big companies’ supply chains. Now, despite wider political and economic


uncertainty, DTL hopes 2019 could still be the year that kick starts the faltering programme. www.developtraining.co.uk


ESCAPE AND RESCUE EQUIPMENT: NO ROOM FOR COMPLACENCY


Semmco has reported that its entire range of hooded life protection devices is fully compliant with the new PPE Regulation (EU) 2016/425, ahead of the deadline in April. After April 2019, it is a legal requirement that


Respiratory Protective Equipment (RPE) must be compliant with this regulation. The New Approach Directive safeguards that every Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) product on the market will enhance consumer safety. All available RPE must be updated to adhere to the changes to ensure employee health and safety is effectively protected against hazardous or compromised air. In the UK, a number of workers are killed or seriously injured in


confined spaces across a wide range of hazardous industries every year. Danger can arise when workers are suddenly faced with a lack of oxygen or poisonous gases, fumes or vapours enter the confined space.


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In instances such as these, compliant escape sets, adhering to the PPE Regulation (EU) 2016/425, are vital to ensure RPE does not fail in the protection of workers escaping from compromised air. The end-user of PPE needs to be confident that the Life Protection


Systems supplied will protect them against any hazardous or life- threatening incidents that may occur in their working day, which will enable a worker to feel comfortable to work in such environments. The CE Marking on a Life Protection System declares that the RPE has


been thoroughly examined annually and adheres to the safety standards in Category III (complex PPE) products of the PPE Regulation (EU) 2016/425. This official declaration insures the end-user can be confident in the protection of their respiratory equipment, keeping workforces at ease. All PPE products on the market need to bear the CE marking to comply with The PPE Regulation (EU) 2016/425 from April 2019. www.semmco.com


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