Members and stakeholders are invited to comment on the draft Health and Safety in Ports guidance document for Storage of Dry Bulk Cargo by completing the Health and Safety in Ports Guidance Project Questionnaire

SIP008 Storage of Dry Bulk Cargo

Please return comments by close of Wednesday 25 August 2010

HSE are providing a subsidised training course for Safety Representatives as part of their ‘Do Your Bit’ Campaign. This course is 75% funded and designed to increase health and safety knowledge and skills.

Please see the link below for further details:

http://premier-partnership.co.uk/doyourbit/

The port Accident Statistics for 2009 have been collated and are published on the Members’ area of the website.

The statistics cover RIDDOR accidents, breaking them down by RIDDOR category, accident type, accident location and month.

The total reportable accident numbers remain low in comparison with recent years and this year we are delighted to report a 20% reduction in the overall incident rate against 2008 figures.

Fatalities have remained flat at zero for the second year running and there has been an overall improvement on major’s, over 3 day accidents, and dangerous occurrences.

Following extensive consultation with the Port industry and a highly successful partnership with foundation degree forward (fdf), the national body that supports the development and validation of high quality Foundation degrees, PSS has launched the first Ports Foundation Degree Framework

PSS have been working with interested members the HSE and the Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL) on a project to produce a series of generic assessments on Whole Body Vibration (WBV)for specific items of port plant.

This year’s UK Championship for the Grand Prior Trophy was held in Coton House, Rugby on 11th November. The venue was provided by the Royal Mail.

The 2009 First Aid Conference for the Ports Industry was held in Harwich on 29th October and jointly hosted by Harwich Haven Authority and Harwich International Port Ltd.

The Health and Safety Guidance in Docks Project is one of the main priorities of PSS as this will eventually replace the current guidance “Safety in Docks”, We have been advised that the HSE will seek to revoke the Dock Regulations 1988, as part of their simplification plan to aid compliance.