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 Quarter 3 (Q3) (1 October to 31 December 2023). The Chairperson introduced the report and deferred to the Corporate Health and Safety Manager to present the detail.

The Manager took the Committee through the report advising on the numbers of accidents / incidents, near misses and unacceptable behaviour which were relatively low and dealt with according to Council policies with no particular trends identified during this period. He advised that in section 3.1.1 the incident that took place on 13-12-2023 was to be deleted as this was classified as a near miss elsewhere. The report provided further update in respect of the following areas:

·                Health and Safety Groups – It was noted that the inaugural Health and Safety managers meeting had been scheduled.

·                Staff resources – The Safety Action team for frontline staff had been finalised following receipt of nominations from managers.

·                System resources

·                Fire Risk Assessments

·                Policies and procedures

·                Health and Safety inspections

·                Legionella

·                Training – a number of training events had been undertaken during this quarter, including over 70 staff attending training on dealing with violence and aggression.

·                Accident-near miss reporting

The Chairperson proposed that the recommendations as set out in the report be agreed and this proposal was duly seconded.

During the discussion that followed and in response to questions raised, the following information was provided:

·                Members were advised that the hazard ‘first aid box in the maintenance depot workshop’ related to this first aid box not containing a contents list, resulting in difficultly knowing whether it was complete or not.

·                Feedback was always sought for any training events undertaken. Members were advised that following feedback on the recent violence and aggression training Officers were proposing to change delivery of this training in the future. Two training options would be offered to staff with a fuller session provided for frontline staff.

The Chairperson then moved the recommendation which was duly agreed. 

The Committee thanked the Corporate Health and Safety Officer for his report.

RESOLVED

(i)             That Members considered the accident and incident statistics and incidences of unacceptable behaviour reported;

(ii)            That Members considered progress of key health and safety themes (as set out in section 3.2 of the report).