Safe and Well at Work: Occupational Health and Safety Strategic Framework for NHSScotland

This person centred strategic framework sets out how NHSScotland Boards should approach occupational health and safety to keep staff motivated and healthy, engaged and safe. It provides a national statement of aims and priorities, together with a clear framework for delivering improvements in the occupational health and safety of NHSScotland staff.


Appendix 1
SAFE AND WELL AT WORK: OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK FOR NHSSCOTLAND

Publications

The Staff Governance Standard (3rd Edition), Scottish Government, 2007

A Force for Improvement, Scottish Government, January 2009

Better Health, Better Care: Action Plan, Scottish Government, December 2007

Common Sense, Common Safety, Lord Young of Graffham, September 2010

Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974

Health Works: A Review of the Scottish Government's Healthy Working Lives Strategy, Scottish Government, December 2009

HSG 65 Successful Health and Safety Management, HSE Books 1997 ( www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/hwwb-working-for-a-healthier-tomorrow.pdf )

Leading Health and Safety at Work: Leadership Action for Directors and Board Members, Institute of Directors, Health and Safety Executive, October 2007

Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999

Managing Health at Work, Partnership Information Network ( PIN), 2005

NHS Health and Well-being, Steve Boorman Final Report, November 2009.

NHSScotland Occupational Health Nursing Strategy 2010-2013

Partnership for Occupational Safety and Health in Healthcare ( POSHH): Occupational Health and Safety Standards:

www.nhsemployers.org/HealthyWorkplaces/HealthAndSafety_new/Pages/HealthAndSafetyStandards.aspx

Towards a Mentally Flourishing Scotland, Scottish Government, October 2007

Patient Rights (Scotland) Bill, Scottish Parliament, March 2010

Self-reported work-related illness and workplace injuries in 2008/09: Results from the Labour Force Survey, Health and Safety Executive, March 2010

The Healthcare Quality Strategy for NHSScotland, Scottish Government, May 2010

Working for a healthier tomorrow, Dame Carol Black, March 2008

Working Together: Staff involvement and organizational Performance in the NHS. Final Report, West et al., 2005

Useful Links

Better Together: Scotland's Patient Experience Programme,
www.bettertogetherscotland.com

Scottish Centre for Healthy Working Lives, www.healthyworkinglives.com

Information Services Division ( ISD), www.isdscotland.org

Keep Well, www.keepwellscotland.org.uk

Scotland's Health on the Web ( SHOW), www.show.scot.nhs.uk

Scottish Government, www.scotland.gov.uk

Scottish Government's Health and Work webpages,
www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Health/workingage-1

Scottish Patient Safety Programme,
www.patientsafetyallicance.scot.nhs.uk/programme

Staff Governance, www.staffgovernance.scot.nhs.uk

Working Well Challenge Fund,
www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Health/HNHS-Scotland/nhsworkforce/experience/wwchallenge

Back to top