Detail

Decisions in relation to Health & Safety are made through a network of local Health & Safety committees/forums within SPA and Police Scotland, with national decisions made at the quarterly Health & Safety Board.

Health and Safety End of Year Report
The Health & Safety End of Year report, attached at Appendix A, details matters such as enforcement activity, proactive preventative work and accident statistics, which include assaults and incidents involving during arrest/custody. The report also provides updates on current and emerging health & safety issues and updates regarding the development of policy and practice.

Members are invited to discuss this report.

Health and Safety Workplan 2024/25
In February 2024, the Health and Safety Board approved the Health and Safety Strategic Action Plan 2024-2027, which sets out the Department’s overarching strategic purpose and key objectives for the next 3-year period and planned activity that supports the delivery of those strategic objectives.

To further support the delivery of the strategic action plan, a Health and Safety Workplan for the current fiscal year has been drafted and attached at Appendix B. The workplan also seeks to conclude a previous recommendation from the Health and Safety Internal Assurance review that ‘the Health & Safety Manager should consider the development of a scheduled and reactive demand workplan to record and coordinate the current and future work commitments of the team.’

The workplan outlines specific proactive activity that will be undertaken during the fiscal year as it has been acknowledged that the nature of the re-active demand managed by the Department on a daily basis is impossible to record within a workplan format. This has been discussed and agreed with Risk and Assurance.

The Health and Safety Workplan 2024/25 was approved by PSEMB in April and is now provided for the information of SPA People Committee.

Members are invited to discuss the Health and Safety Workplan 2024/25.