Inter-Institutional Group on Health and Safety is made up of representatives (members and staff) from the:

• Engineering Council
• Hazards Forum
• Health and Safety Executive
• Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors
• Institute of Marine Engineering Science and Technology
• Institution of Chemical Engineers
• Institution of Civil Engineers
• Institution of Engineering and Technology
• Institution of Mechanical Engineers
• Institution of Occupational Safety and Health
• Institution of Structural Engineers
• Royal Institution of Naval Architects
• Safety and Reliability Society

Life-long learning for Health and Safety Risk Management

The Inter-Institutional Group on Health and Safety has produced a schedule of guidance describing in broad terms the continued health and safety risk assessment and mitigation learning that is likely to be required as part of a professional’s Continuing Professional Development (CPD).

Life long learning for health and safety risk management

Risk communication and professional engineers

This paper by the Inter Institutional Group on Health and Safety identifies the key issues for professional engineers in health and safety risk communication.

Risk communication and professional engineers

Safety, Health and Environmental Risk

The teaching of safety, health and environmental risk (SHE) issues to undergraduates studying engineering courses is an important part of the education of future engineers, and is generally thought to be an area insufficiently covered in current courses

Safety, Health and Environmental Risk

The group is currently working on three key areas of interest to the Institutions and has created working groups made up of  experts from industry and academia to tackle these important issues:

Risk teaching

Promote the teaching of health and safety risk to undergraduate engineers in the UK through the provision of flexible teaching materials that could be incorporated into engineering courses.

The group is working with the Health and Safety Executive to produce a software package that will demonstrate their e-learning concept. A report outlining the proposals  has been published by the Health & Safety Executive.

• http://www.hse.gov.uk/research/rrhtm/rr452.htm

Occupational health

To increase the understanding of occupational health issues within the engineering profession.

Members of this working group include occupational health experts from the medical profession. 

The working group has produced the following:

Inter institutional group on health and safety strategy document (25 k)

 

Safety culture

Promoting the benefits of a good safety culture within companies and organisations. The group helped to set up an event on safety culture that was run by the Hazards Forum. Please read the following report (reproduced by kind permission of the Hazards Forum).

Achieving a good safety culture - the people dimension (3150 k)