What are the safety implications of changes in working patterns and the way in which work is organised (e.g. fatigue and shift patterns)?
Background
HSE Strategic Objective: Maintain Great Britain’s record as one of the safest countries to work in (https://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/assets/docs/the-hse-strategy.pdf)
The legislation under which HSE operates has enabled Great Britain to become one of the safest places in the world to work through a combination of our extensive proactive regulatory work, enforcement, and prosecutions. To underpin policy, regulatory and operational activities in this strategic objective the evidence requirements in this area will include:
To develop the existing system of ongoing data collection, analysis, interpretation and result dissemination so that it remains fit for purpose to enable appropriate targeting of interventions and enforcement to maintain safety performance.
To extract insight and intelligence from data to develop data driven solutions which will improve safety performance by building on our learning and knowledge from the Discovering Safety programme.
To further develop understanding of the current and future world of work to ensure that our regulatory approach remains suitable and sufficient, taking account of any social, demographic and technological changes (including artificial intelligence).
To maintain and develop our risk models and evidence that supports statutory requirements and regulatory regimes to maintain safety within major hazard industries.
The questions provide more detail of the evidence needs within the main Areas of Research Interest Question Group.
Next steps
Get in touch: [email protected]
Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Topics
No topics assigned yet
Research fields
No research fields assigned yet
Related UKRI funded projects
-
The University of Nottingham and Cadent Gas Limited KTP 22_23 R2
To improve the safety of the workforce and gas networks by understanding and evidencing the impact of fatigue, caused by working hours, on employees in safety critical roles....
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
Why might this be relevant?
The project specifically focuses on understanding the impact of fatigue on employees in safety critical roles, directly addressing the safety implications of changes in working patterns.
-
The role of Health and Safety Representatives in COVID-19
Workplace health and safety representative have legal rights to represent the interests and concerns of workers over health and safety, to make representations on potential hazards and dangers and to have contact with he...
Funded by: COVID
Lead research organisation: University of Greenwich
Why might this be relevant?
The project addresses the role of health and safety representatives during COVID-19, which is related to safety implications of changes in working patterns, but does not fully answer the question.
-
Healthy Working environments for all Ages: An evidence-driven framework.
The WAge project will develop and validate the first comprehensive framework for assessing and understanding the roles and interactions between physical and psychosocial risk factors across age groups through robust mode...
Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee
Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on developing a framework for assessing physical and psychosocial risk factors across age groups, which is related to understanding the current and future world of work as mentioned in the context.