HSENI Launches Draft Corporate Plan for the 2018-2023 Period
The Health and Safety Executive Northern Ireland (HSENI) has launched its draft five-year Corporate Plan, covering the period from 2018-2023, which aims to demonstrate HSENI’s commitment to improving health and safety standards across all work sectors in Northern Ireland.
The priorities will be: preventing the most serious workplace health and safety issues; high risk industries and activities; sensible and proportionate risk management; effective regulation; supporting businesses and the economy.
The plan identifies that HSENI has recognised three main overlapping themes on which to focus during this corporate planning period. HSENI highlight 1:
- safety, an area in which we have seen tremendous advances since the formation of HSENI but where we know that a number of employers in different work sectors continue to fall short of required standards
- workplace ill health which is estimated to be costing the Northern Ireland Economy over £238 million per year brings significant individual suffering and the benefits to managing it properly are enormous
- work activities that pose the highest risk and the causes of serious and fatal accidents.
Underpinning all of this is HSENI’s commitment to working in partnership with all stakeholders to raise awareness and drive improvements in both safety and health across all sectors.
To read the Corporate Plan in full, click here.
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1 Source: HSENI https://www.hseni.gov.uk/news/hseni-has-produced-its-new-draft-corporate-plan-2018-2023-period