Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Director of Service Delivery (copy enclosed).

The Committee considered the report of the Director of Service Delivery that provided an update on Health and Safety statistics and activity during Q4 (1 January 2022 to 31March 2022), and quarter 1 (1 April to 30 June 2022). The Chairman introduced the report and deferred to the Director of Service Delivery who introduced the new Health & Safety Manager to the Committee. The Manager took the Committee through the report advising on the numbers of accidents/incidents and near misses. All were relatively low and dealt with according to the Council’s policies.

In addition there had been seven incidents of unacceptable behaviour which had been dealt with under the Council’s Unacceptable Behaviour Policy. It was noted that the Health and Safety Action Plans were being assessed and would be established through the Managers’ Forum and a range of activities were underway including Fire Risk assessments; review of policies and procedures; H&S Inspections; improved monitoring systems and a new staff training matrix.

The Chairperson moved the recommendations which were seconded and opened the discussion.

A question was raised as to the mechanism in place for Members to raise/deal with incidents of unacceptable behaviour from members of the public and the Director of Service Delivery said he would reflect on this and reply to Members outside of the meeting.

There being no further discussion the Chairperson put the duly seconded recommendations to the Committee and they were agreed by assent.

RESOLVED

(i)               That Members considered the accident and incident statistics.

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(ii)             That Members considered progress with all health and safety actions.