The Further Education Safety and Health Forum (FESH) was set up to offer strategic direction on health and safety matters in the sector. It is made up of representatives of English, Welsh and Scottish colleges, trades unions, and the Health and Safety Executive.
It identified four key areas for it's workplan drawn up in 2009. These were:
- Work Related Stress
- Slips and Trips
- Data Collection and Analysis
- Effective Communication
Since then the workplan has been revised and developed into an assessment tool for use by FE Colleges, providing a recommended strategy to help them to meet their health and safety responsibilities. Please see below for more details.
FESH Safety Assessment Tool
The Assessment Tool is based around the recommendations of the Ministerial Taskforce Report and its subsequent ‘One year on' report, the basis of which is making improvements to workplace health and subsequently better service delivery.
The tool has been designed to complement the Health and Safety Executive’s strategy for the health and safety of Great Britain. Each HSE strategy goal has been interpreted by FESH, and recommendations on how that goal might be evidenced have been included for evaluation by College corporations.
The evidence examples are not exhaustive, and individual institutions may wish to add to or amend them according to their local circumstances.
Download:
FESH Safety Assessment Tool (A4 word document)
FESH acknowledges the work of the Local Government Association's National Health and Safety Practitioner Panel in developing the principles upon which this tool is based.