Published: 23 May 2005
Sensible Risk Management
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) recently spoke at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) Safety and Health at Work congress to enhance the message of sensible risk management in the health and safety debate.
HSE view sensible risk management as key to securing compliance with health & safety regulations and also vital to removing many of the myths surrounding the health & safety debate.
Promoting a sensible approach to health and safety is one of the main planks in the Health and Safety Commission's (HSC) strategy to 2010 and beyond.
Vic Coleman, HSE's head of planning, efficiency and finance, in his speech at the congress covered major topics in the risk debate, including:
the trivial issues that are used to undermine the risk debate,
the trade off's that need to be made to ensure health & safety doesn't become a burden, and
how seeking to eliminate all risks is neither practical nor desirable.
He commented:
"HSC wishes to champion and promote its position, i.e. the middle ground, making the case for sensible risk control measures that are sensibly applied.
Risk Assessment should not be viewed as a burden, they enable a company to identify where the risk is highest and can identify control measures that are in proportion to the risk."
Further information
Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents
Copy of Vic Coleman's presentation
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