Raising Awareness of Dangers at Work - Breathing. John Cairns Chairman

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1 Raising Awareness of Dangers at Work - Breathing John Cairns Chairman

2 So where do Safety Groups fit in? 70 pus Groups in UK Nationa Coverage Providing ow cost, oca, entry eve advice and briefing Partnership working with HSE, ILEVE,RoSPA, IOSH, BSC, IIRSM, NEBOSH etc. Raising awareness/spreading good practice Faciitating events & cascading information to SME s Providing a friendy informa point of contact for SME s & others via the UK network of safety groups and the opportunity to attend oca safety group meetings.

3 Partnership Working breathing

4 Heath Risks at work Do you know yours?

5 breathing

6 The occupationa heath burden in Britain today notifiabe fatas 13,000 heath reated deaths, mainy respiratory disease & cancer 500,000 new cases each year. 1.1 miion injuries 1.2 miion cases of work reated i heath 4000 Occupationa COPD deaths per annum

7 Heath Risks at Work 5 main topics Risks to Skin Risks to Breathing Risks to Hearing & Touch Risks to Musces, Bones & Joints Risks to Webeing Muti anguage DVD to raise awareness of Occupationa Heath Issues.

8 Heath risks: some facts Airborne contaminants cause a range of occupationa diseases Up to 1500 peope contract Occupationa Asthma (OA) each year in the UK Exposure to fumes, chemicas and dusts account for around 4000 deaths each year 36,000 workers reported breathing and ung probems at work

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10 Occupationa Cancer in Great Britain Approx :- more than 6,000 for men more than 1,000 for women By trade Construction Weding *

11 breathing

12 HSE Loca Exhaust Ventiation Supported by:

13 Controing the risk at Source. SGUK Supports the ILEVE Competency Card for LEV Engineers

14 H&S Industry Trends Safety Cuture / Behavioura Safety: Eiminating the perception that H&S is excusivey the domain of the heath and safety professiona. Encouraging worker invovement to change mindsets. Focus on Heath Risks and Long Latency: Major concern around the new heath cases rather than safety, highighted in the new IOSH No Time To Lose campaign.

15 Safety Groups UK Safety Groups UK is happy to support the IOSH campaign on occupationa cancer No Time to Lose For the ast few years, the focus of SGUK has been to raise awareness of occupationa heath issues, particuary for SMEs and ong atency diseases such as cancer. It s vita to get the message out about this significant occupationa heath issue not ony for those individuas and famiies directy affected, but aso from the perspective of business, and the nationa economy as a whoe.

16 Safety Groups UK (SGUK) is peased to support the BOHS Breathe Freey campaign to hep raise awareness and reduce ung disease among construction workers. We wi aso promote the Breathe Freey message as we continue to deiver the overa focus on "Risks to breathing" as part of Heath Risks at Work campaign in particuar as we highight this major probem area within the Construction Dust Partnership. We wish the BOHS Breathe Freey campaign every success in heping to bring about effective exposure contro from inhaation hazards causing respiratory disease in the construction industry and fuy support the message that " good occupationa hygiene is good for business.

17 Partnership working

18 Heping you to correcty seect and use respirators With support from

19 Damage to your worker s ungs and other parts of their bodies can seriousy affect their heath it can aso affect your business!

20 Don t risk their heath & your business Many workers Are not provided with correcty seected respirators! Are not provided with correcty maintained respirators Do not wear their respirators propery This can ead to exposure to hazardous substances affecting their heath and putting your business at risk!

21 Respiratory disease Common heath probems caused by breathing in hazardous substances Cancers Asthma COPD(Airway obstructive diseases) Aergies & sensitisation Siicosis

22 Other diseases Breathing in hazardous substances can aso cause diseases esewhere in the body Nervous system disorders Badder cancer Heart disease Damage to reproductive system Don t risk their ong term heath!

23 Construction Dust Partnership

24 Dust is defined by its size Inhaabe dust Larger sized dust that you can generay see with the naked eye This gets trapped in the upper sections of your ung Respirabe dust Smaer sized dust that can be invisibe to the naked eye This gets trapped in the ower sections of your ung Inhaabe Dust Respirabe Dust

25 Introducing the SafeTea Campaign

26 SafeTea Campaign ticks a the boxes Simpe to use, vauabe too for H&S personne Creates action pan and engages workforce Promotes Safety Groups Network Links to HR@W Innovative communication Aignment with industry trends Simpe and cost-effective to run SafeTea Month June

27 The LOcHER Project SGUK & IIRSM, BSiF, ILEVE,IBIS

28 Thank you for your attention. Questions?