Health and Safety Executive (HSE)

Risk assessment is of course the foundation of good safety management practice, but it’s also a legal requirement under the HSE. All UK employers and self-employed persons must “make a suitable and sufficient assessment” of safety and health risks in the workplace. To have the best chance of meeting these obligations, employers need a that not only makes the job easier by facilitating assessments such as job safety analyses (JSAs), but also makes the completed work accessible to employees.

HSE is one of five regulatory bodies working in partnership to enforce COMAH, a set of regulations intended to prevent major accidents involving dangerous substances which implement the Seveso III Directive in the UK. Analogous to Process Safety Management (PSM) in the US, COMAH requires facilities storing certain highly hazardous chemicals above threshold amounts to implement safety measures to minimize the potential for accidents. Required measures include inspections, preventative maintenance, and written management of change (MOC) procedures.

Employers looking to meet their HSE requirements should remember that the focus shouldn’t be on just maintaining compliance, but on can promote better engagement with your EHS culture and give you the best chance to become the best EHS leader you can be. But you need to equip yourself for success. Spreadsheets and legacy electronic systems don’t give you the efficiency and visibility into your safety programs you need to maintain a healthy safety management system.

That’s why our VelocityEHS Accelerate^® Platform is a good fit for your needs. It lets you centralize your information, like incident reports, near-miss data, safety processes and MOC workflow approvals, so that you can more easily put it work for your EHS programs. You’ll get the insight you need to improve health, safety and environmental impacts with a real-time, global view of the operational risks in your workplace.