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A young employee had to have his left arm amputated after it was trapped in a piece of workplace machinery at Natural World Products Ltd. in Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland.
While conducting his daily check on 29 June 2010 the employee had noticed a piece of wood had been caught under the conveyor of the screening machine and suffered severe injuries to his arm when he attempted to remove it.
The machine was unguarded and a HSENI investigation has determined that the original guard had been tampered with and reduced in size in order to allow maintenance staff access to internal machine parts while it was running.
A worker at a farming company in Fife had to have two of his toes amputated after they became trapped in machinery on 4 September 2009.
The worker had been attempting to remove water from a grain reception pit when his foot got caught up in the screw auger mechanism inside the pit. The screw auger consists of a large screw inside a metal tube and is used to rotate and mix the grain. The top part of the screw auger is uncovered and the worker’s toes were unfortunately placed in this area.
Although the screw auger was not initially turned on, the worker’s colleague was cleaning out another grain reception pit which required him to turn on the screw auger conveyor which had the function of disposing with the leftover grain. However he mistakenly switched on the screw auger for the grain reception pit of the accident victim causing the screw auger to rotate and inflict serious injury.
A recent survey carried out by Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and Simplyhealth entitled ‘Absence Management Survey’ has revealed that the most common reason for long-term sickness absence among manual and non-manual employees, is stress.
EssentialSkillz looks into the findings of this survey and investigates the reasons for this increasingly common workplace absentee problem.
Redundancies looming?
There’s nothing like an absent carrot to keep you motivated in your job, especially in light of austerity cut backs. Affecting most industry sectors, headcounts are being analysed, job roles are being scrutinised. “Employers planning to make redundancies in the next six months are significantly more likely to report an increase in mental health problems among their staff (51% compared with 32% who are not planning redundancies).”
Public sector no longer the ‘untouchables’
Organisational change and restructures are common place within public sector bodies, however in more recent times, the end result is leaving people without any form of job security. Gone are the sideways moves, the slotting of departments into other divisions. Put simply, Government cutbacks mean there is a reality that entire public sector initiatives/organisations are fast disappearing, whilst those that do manage to hold on to some kind of role will have to suffer pay freezes and pension cuts. Public sector respondents identify the amount of organisational change and restructuring as the number one cause of stress at work.
The Problem A large event management company in the Midlands was prompted to act, to address the dangers of back disorders in the workplace, by an EssentialSkillz email newsletter publicising the HSE’s “Better Backs” campaign.
Realising their provision and management of manual handling training and risk assessments could be improved, they got in touch to find out how an online solution could be implemented to improve the situation.
The Solution Manual Handling Essentials is an online course designed to help organisations deliver training to employees as soon as they begin work and before they might need to practise a manual handling task. In this training course employees learn:
A foundry in Stoke has been fined £8,000 plus £4,798 in costs after a worker fell into an unfenced pit housing a mould containing molten metal at 900°C. The 28 year old worker suffered severe burns to his left arm and upper legs. The man who wishes not to be named, needed skin grafts on his injured limbs which are still scarred, following the incident on the 5th May 2010.
During the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecution, Fenton Magistrates’ Court heard the worker is still undergoing physiotherapy for restricted movement in his arm, hand and fingers, and is so traumatised by the experience he has not been able to return to any work at the foundry.
The Problem
A major drink distributor approached us with an issue in April 2007. An existing customer, they had already used our Ergowize online DSE solution to deliver training and risk assessments to around 160 staff nationwide. They needed to extend this process to staff based in their Glasgow office, but did not have the resource available to set up and manage this project.
Ideally they wanted to:
- populate a database with employee details
- set up a system to automatically generate email introductions and reminders
- roll out online DSE training and risk assessments to 30 members of staff
- record and prioritise associated DSE risks
- outsource the monitoring of the concerns generated by the risk assessment
- outsource the intervention required to resolve outstanding risks
The Solution
EssentialSkillz offers a managed service to compliment its Ergowize online DSE training and risk assessment solution. Dedicated system adminstrators (who are both product experts and DSE Assessors) are allocated to a client to provide a variety of support services:
On the 30th April 2010, the worker on a construction site refurbishing buildings climbed a step ladder to remove a cable. The worker assumed that the cable was dead and so attempted to remove the cable using a hammer and chisel. After the second blow, the worker has no recollection other than waking on the floor with a colleague trying to extinguish flames from the top half of his body. The worker received serious 30 – 35% burns to his body which required skin grafts.
The accident victim was a sub contractor of Pineview Interiors Ltd of Havering, London.
At the time of the incident, a 415v 3-phase temporary electrical supply had been provided to the site, and on that morning the worker explained to his supervisor that the electrical cable needed to be removed to allow plasterboard to be installed. HSE investigation revealed that Pineview undertook what HSE deemed to be ‘very limited’ enquiries as to whether this cable was in fact still live, and its workers proceeded on the false assumption that the cable being described must have been an old redundant cables from the pre-existing installation.
Epwin were looking to deliver a group specific manual handling training course as part of their induction programme entitled “One Foot and Move It”. Ideally the company wanted to:
- Reach employees across 30 geographically dispersed locations with a consistent training message regarding good manual handling practises and techniques
- Implement a training programme that would be relevant and applicable for their particular business on budget and within a tight time frame
- Identify the most appropriate format for delivering this solution so that if would effective in different working environments
- Test understanding of their content
- Generate and maintain training records and reports
The solution
EssentialSkillz easy-to-use Rapid Course Authoring Tool – O-LAS Author – allows anyone capable of using Microsoft Word or PowerPoint to rapidly design, deliver and manage their own online learning programmes. Entirely new courses can be written or existing PowerPoint presentations and video training materials adapted for delivery online. Content can be tracked using O-LAS LMS, our Online Learning & Assessment System.
Health and Safety E-Learning specialists, EssentialSkillz, have re launched their complete library of 22 Health and Safety and HR E-Learning courses for health & Safety and HR training professionals.
The Health and Safety E learning courses have undergone an update to enhance the end-user experience, offering a rich graphical interface.
The entire library has been updated including content upgrades to many courses. All of the Essentialskillz courses are editable using the Authoring tool integrated into their LMS, O-LAS and all images and text can be amended by clients to ensure the courses are relevant to the intended audience.