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Latest
News
HSE
and EEF launch ground breaking partnership to
promote health and safety in manufacturing
27/01/2006
New partnership will provide manufacturing companies with
an improved network for communication with HSE.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) today signed a ground-breaking
partnership agreement with EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation,
to promote effective health and safety management across manufacturing
industries.
The agreement, the first of its kind between HSE and other organisations,
builds on a strong history of co-operation. It recognises EEF’s
expertise in the field of health and safety and the quality
advice and services it provides to member companies.
The partnership will provide manufacturing companies with an
improved network for communication with HSE. This will allow
them to receive the latest information and guidance from the
regulator, as well as offering opportunities to feedback issues,
concerns and examples of good practice.
Industry will also benefit from joint seminar and training events
covering issues that particularly effect manufacturing. These
will feature technical input from HSE’s specialist staff, as
well as information on best practice and implementation from
EEF’s network of health and safety professionals.
Bill Callaghan, Chair of the Health and Safety Commission (HSC),
said in his keynote speech at the launch:
“I am sure that the EEF/HSE partnership will help us achieve
our vision of being a modern, 21st century regulator. I hope
all here at the partnership launch recognise the great benefits
that regulation can bring in protecting people at work. But
we all know that ill-designed regulation can bring unnecessary
burden. Getting the balance right can be tricky but you have
already helped us on difficult issues.”
On signing the agreement EEF Director General, Martin Temple
said: “Manufacturing companies take their health and safety
responsibilities extremely seriously. This agreement is a recognition
not only of EEF’s expertise in this area, but a signal of our
commitment to promoting effective health and safety as part
of a best practice business culture.”
HSE Head of Field Operations, Sandra Caldwell signed the agreement
for HSE, commenting: “This partnership agreement reflects a
relationship of equals interested in a strong manufacturing
sector with a healthy and safe workforce. It offers improved
communications, better co-ordination of effort, greater efficiency
in the delivery of effort and empowers us to work together more
effectively without constraining initiative.”
The partnership between the two organisations will extend across
England, Wales and Scotland, establishing close links between
staff operating in every region.
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