Health and safety at work

TeaForOne

Presumably you have a Quality department? This sounds to me to be as much if not more a QA issue - it people are distracted from their work they may make mistakes and have an adverse effect on the quality of your products. This has all sorts of ramifications (customer safety, organizational profits, reputation) as well as staff welfare.

dacouch

gazza7788 wrote: »

This is interesting as well because one member of staff super glued the volume control to a high level .What i mean by a high level is a level of volume whereby members of staff complain that is distracting them from their work and concentration levels are affected.



Childish is a word i would use for this behaviour.

Did they also make jellys with your stapler in ?

ILW

TeaForOne wrote: »

Presumably you have a Quality department? This sounds to me to be as much if not more a QA issue - it people are distracted from their work they may make mistakes and have an adverse effect on the quality of your products. This has all sorts of ramifications (customer safety, organizational profits, reputation) as well as staff welfare.

"Jobsworth syndrome", give someone a bit of power over health and safety and they now think that they should be making decisions about QA as well.

dickydonkin

ILW wrote: »

"Jobsworth syndrome", give someone a bit of power over health and safety and they now think that they should be making decisions about QA as well.

You have a bit of a thing about H&S don't you? Would you rather go back to the days when we sent kids up chimneys or when people would go to work in the morning and never come back home?

These 'jobsworths' are in place to protect workers and members of the public - you should never forget that.

It is a fact that organisations such as councils and schools use H&S as an excuse to cancel events - where the reality is that because of our litigious society, insurance premiums for holding events has now become very costly and they are not prepared to pay it and use H&S as an excuse to cancel.

The banning of conkers in schools was a prime example of misinterpration of H&S regulations and embellished media reporting - the Daily Mail comes to mind.

You seem oblivious to the fact that QA and Health and Safety go hand in hand - in fact many health and safety positions now incorporate QA into their roles.

The reality is that whatever you think, many contracts are offered on the basis of what accreditation they have.

Where I used to work, we would have regular audits from major supermarket chains and they would ensure that we conformed to our ISO and BRC (British Retail Consortium) accreditation.

Those audits not only required that we were stringent in applying our quality system, but our health and safety management system was also audited.

It is not unusual nowadays to see job roles titled 'Health, Safety, Environment and Quality Manager' (HSEQ Manager).

A bit of a 'Jack of All trades' position in my opinion, but a sign of the times when larger employers in the past would have three individuals performing these roles (we certainly did).

Nowadays, it is relatively uncommon to see SME's employing their own safety professional.

Where they are employed, their job title in many cases is as described above and where no safety professional exists, these company's will only employ a consultant when things have gone belly up and after they have explained to the Judge that they will put things right in the future.