Issue - meetings

The Board was provided with a report from the Strategic Director, Enterprise, Community and Resources, which presented details of health and safety management in relation to key performance indicators for the current financial year, 1 April 2018 to 31^st March 2019.

The report highlighted

·         There had been arise in burn injuries within school catering and office areas, slips/trips/falls, manual handling accidents in the care teams and Waste Management plus injuries linked to staff being hit or caught by stationary and moving/flying objects. There had also been a total of 12 near misses;

·         Violent incidents were showing a fall in the number of verbal incidents and physical incidents had dropped from 11 to 10. However there had been a rise in both verbal and physical incidents within Halton schools;

·         Lone working monitoring system usage data showed a very slight increase in registered users of the system but a decrease in use of the system;

·         Display Screen Equipment assessments had risen to 23 throughout 2018 with staff reporting health issues surrounding Musculoskeletal Disorders ;and

·         Risk Assessments completed on the corporate risk assessment system had risen from 1142 in 2017/18 to 1432 in 2018/19.

Arising from the discussion the Board requested that definitions of the specified injury, >7 day and significant be provided in future reports. In addition, further information on the physical incidents in schools would be circulated to Members.

RESOLVED: That the report be noted.