Inter-Institutional Group on Health and Safety
Co-ordinating the efforts of the engineering institutions in common areas of health and safety policy.
Inter-Institutional Group on Health and Safety is made up of representatives (members and staff) from the IET, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Institution of Structural Engineers, and the Institution of Chemical Engineers. It also has representatives from the Hazards Forum, the Engineering Council UK, the HSE, IOSH, the Safety & Reliability Society, and the Ergonomics Society.
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.
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) Updated February 2007
The case for considering occupational health
(47 k) Updated February 2007
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) Updated February 2007
If you are a member, and would like to input into the IET's policy work, please join the Health and Safety Policy Key.
For more information on the Inter-Institutional Group on Health and Safety contact:
Email: healthandsafety@theiet.org