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Health and Safety Worker Engagement and Leadership in Waste & Recycling conference
Thursday 27th October 2022 - 10am - 3pm,
Dickens Inn, Marble Quay, St. Katherine's Way, Tower Hill, London. E1W 1UH
This event is for managers, supervisors, safety representatives and operatives from all areas of the industry. It will include speakers from both within the industry and HSE.
Delegates will explore why health and safety Leadership and Worker engagement is crucial in today’s corporate environment, how the WISH worker engagement tool works and how it can be used.
There will be facilitated table discussions where delegates will be invited to explore good practice and discuss barriers to effective implementation.
Please note that places are filling up quickly, so please register as early as possible.
For further information, contact Lynsey Mann, Chair of the WISH Worker Engagement group.
Contact with dangerous machinery is one of the top three causes of fatal injuries in the waste and recycling sector.
In August 2022 WISH published a suite of new machinery guidance which has been endorsed by HSE:
The two overarching machinery safety documents are supported by three machine-specific WISH information documents:
HSE regards waste and recycling as a ‘high risk sector’ because of the unacceptable number of fatal and serious injuries over the years.
To build on the release of the WISH guidance above, HSE will be carrying out a programme of over 500 inspections across Great Britain focusing on these issues, starting in October.
These unannounced inspections will reinforce the messages about selecting the right machine for the job, optimising the process to reduce the need for interventions and safe lock off and isolation for when this is necessary.
Managing these risks should be done in a systematic way by managers and involving front line operators where possible. Procedures and systems need to be properly supervised and reviewed from time to time otherwise they will fall into disuse. Solving guarding or production problems should not be left to workers trying to get the job done.
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