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Risk assessment my arse
On 07/12/2013 11:52, wrote:
On Saturday, December 7, 2013 10:45:21 AM UTC, Nightjar wrote:
It is usually the people who interpret the regulations wrongly who waste
money, not the HSE.
I know - but the HSE & ONS should be made jointly responsible for assessing excessive interpretation and costing it out
Why? Bad training is not their fault.
(yes I know the ONS has at times turned out nonsense). Money wasted on H&S limits improvements to health & safety elsewhere, it is as bad as poor H&S.
In Management Consultancy (stop laughing :-) the classic used to be a HBR/Whatever book pushed out and no-one interpreted it correctly, Balanced Scorecard or Benchmarking or Systems Thinking etc. The author had to do a "Field Book" to walk people through its use with concrete examples.
The HSE should create the same specifically for the public sector,every myth costed out and what it meant in terms of books / childrens
autistic/terminal centres and so on - for the country...
They do very good codes of practice and guidance notes that explain the
regulations in great detail and leave no doubt about what is actually
required. They also do a great deal to highlight errors made in the name
of H&S, with concrete examples.
Any competent person should have no problem identifying what needs to be
done. Incompetent people should not be employed to do H&S assessments,
but they have no control over that. I see no reason why they should have
to do cost benefits for things that shouldn't happen if people followed
the rules instead of making up their own.
Colin Bignell
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