The British Safety Council’s Speak Up, Stay Safe campaign is directed at young people who might be in your care while at work. Good health and safety procedures are vital throughout your organisation. While a young person is in your care, you are regarded as their employer.
Your health and safety responsibilities
- You must comply with the Health and Safety at Work Act and its relevant statutory provisions.
- Provision of information, instruction, training and supervision is particularly important for new or temporary employees including young people.
- You must assess the risks [to which young people are exposed to at work and introduce and maintain appropriate measures to eliminate or control the risks.
- Risks to young workers must be assessed before they start work, and the parents/carers of any worker informed of the key findings of the risk assessment and control measures.
- The risk assessment must take into account specific factors such as immaturity, inexperience and lack of awareness, and medical conditions, physical and learning disabilities of the student.
Visit the HSE website for a full list of responsibilities and legislation>>
Congratulations to The British Safety Council for the hard work put into this very important issue.
As a Health & Safety professional validating placements for inclusion of Work Experience pupils, and a trainer for the BSC, transferring knowledge to youngsters before setting off into the world of work is invaluable.
A bite size, common sense approach to the management of risk is the keystone to keeping youngsters safe at work.
Once again- well done
I’m currently a student under BSC. It will be interesting to see what the root causes of the fatalities and injuries are.
Please have a look at the following websites – the first three are Health and Safety Executive websites that detail the cuase and incidence of workplace accidents in Great Britain. You should be able to get a good overview of cause, incidence and trends.
http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/overpic.htm
http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/causinj/kindsofaccident.htm
http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/causinj/datasources.htm
The fourth website is our own and contains a report produced for the British Safety Council by Karen Pearson on the cause and extent of work-related disease, ill health and injury across the globe using ILO data produced by Jukka Takala and others.
http://www.britsafe.org/download/Research%20report%20211108v6.pdf
Hope this assists.
Neal Stone
Congratulations to The British Safety Council for the hard work put into this very important issue.As a Health & Safety professional validating placements for inclusion of Work Experience pupils, and a trainer for the BSC, transferring knowledge to youngsters before setting off into the world of work is invaluable.A bite size, common sense approach to the management of risk is the keystone to keeping youngsters safe at work.
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