Mar 23 2005
A report ‘Workplace Strategy – Moving To Delivery’ has today been sent by Bill Callaghan, Chair of the Health and Safety Commission, to Jane Kennedy, Minister for Work at the Department of Work and Pensions.
The report details how the strategy, in the year since its launch in February 2004, is setting priorities, and how resources are being directed to areas that can have the biggest impact on its targets. An annex also provides many examples, showing how the strategy is becoming a foundation of the way HSE works, often in partnership with others. The Strategy was recently welcomed by the Hampton Report, with many of Hampton’s recommendations reflecting the strategy published prior to the announcement of the Hampton Review.
Bill Callaghan said: “I am pleased to present this report on the first year of our strategy and am appreciative of the Ministerial support we have received throughout this time. A key message for the longer term is that HSE has made major changes to the way it sets its priorities and directs its resources. As an organisation it is now much better placed to implement the strategy and deliver its targets. Equally important is the wealth of examples which show how the strategy’s four themes are shaping HSE’s approach and directly determining outputs such as closer working with Local Authorities to focus resources on agreed health & safety targets and the on-going business involvenment programme. These pen pictures breathe life into the organisational developments described in the report The strategy takes us to 2010 and beyond but it is clearly starting to make an impact; there is still a long way to go but we are confident we will get there.”