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New project for 2012

As a new project for 2012 SGUK are looking into the opportunity of taking the ‘Health Risks at Work – do you know yours’ initiative into England and Wales.

The initiative which has been delivered successfully in Scotland by HSE, SCHWL, SCOS, won the Partnership Initiative of the year award at the IOSH 2010 Awards.
The initiative provides tools and support for smaller organisations to help identify the risks and manage them is a way suitable to the organisation.

DERM Project

Safety Groups UK successfully delivered the DERM project in association with the HSE and BSIF.

Prevent work-related dermatitis. IT'S IN YOUR HANDS©

The project produced a simple information leaflet to help successfully manage work-related dermatitis and delivered ten seminars - 'Rash Decisions Affect Your Business' hosted by Safety Groups throughout the country.

'Prevent work-related derm atitis' information leaflet (pdf document)
DERM Seminars

HSE thanked Safety Groups UK for helping deliver significant objectives of the Disease Reduction Programme.

Moving Goods Safely

Safety Groups UK helped to deliver a series of seminars in support of the HSE's Moving Goods Safely campaign.

Moving Goods Safely (MGS) started out as a national project involving both the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and Local Authorities (LA) working in partnership. The project aimed to reduce injuries and ill health arising from the movement of goods from supplier, through haulier to the recipient and end user including any home deliveries, by focusing upon the delivery and collection of goods and the hazards this generates. It covered the main areas that cause the majority of injuries and ill-health to workers, including:

Workplace transport;
Slips & trips, and;
Musculoskeletal disorders (MSD).

Visit www.hse.gov.uk/movinggoods for resources and further information.

Five MGS Seminars were hosted by local Safety Groups:

Marches Health, Safety & Fire Group in partnership with the HSE (19th May 2009)
North Lincs Health and Safety Group supported by Safety Groups UK (15th October 2009)
Nottinghamshire Occupational Safety & Health Association in partnership with the HSE (25th November 2009)
Teesside Safety Group supported by Safety Groups UK (12th January 2010)
Merseyside Occupational Safety Group and the Manchester Occupational Safety Group, supported by Safety Groups UK (11th February 2010)

Clean Air? Take Care!

Clean Air? Take Care! has been developed jointly by the HSE, BSIF and leading industry stakeholders.

The campaign is focused on overcoming the often ineffective use of Respiratory Protection Equipment (RPE) in the workplace. This problem is leading to serious long-term health issues. By supplying simple advice to users and specifiers of RPE, the campaign aims to help people correctly select RPE and implement a full respiratory protection programme.

SGUK supported the Clean Air? Take Care! Campaign with the following actions:

The campaign folder including; a simple RPE selection guide, an informative RPE user poster and the campaign DVD, were circulated to members of Safety Groups.
BSIF offered free half day seminars on 'Clean Air? Take Care! which were taken up by Safety Groups
SGUK is represented at the HSE’s RPE Project Steering Group meetings

The campaign resources our available to download from the campaign website. www.cleanairtakecare.org