WISH

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WISH

• Update and coming soon

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What is the WISH Forum?

• WISH stands for the Waste Industry Safety and
  Health Forum
• WISH was founded by the CIWM
• In the past few years WISH has become more
  proactive and high profile largely in response
  to increased pressure on the waste management
  industry to improve safety performance
• Chaired by the HSE, but not a HSE committee it
  belongs to the industry

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Who sits on WISH

• Very wide membership, including
• HSE, ESA, CIWM, British Metals Recycling
  Association, Composting Association, CHEM,
  Environment Agency, Local Authority Recycling
  Advisory Committee, Trades Union Congress,
  WAMITAB, Local Government Employers Organisation,
  Community Recyclers, WRAP
• This membership aims to ensure that waste
  management views and practicalities are
  represented in decisions on where the industry
  needs to go on health and safety

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Good practice

• One of WISHs major roles is to produce waste
  management industry specific guidance on health
  and safety
• Typically this guidance is issued as good
  practice documents endorsed and published by the
  HSE
• These documents are free and available as
  downloads from the HSEs web site (and ESAs
  site)
• Aimed, largely, at managers and supervisors in
  plain English

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Whats available now?

• General safety guidance reducing the risks
• Operating CA sites safely
• Ergonomic considerations for designing and
  selecting conveyor belt (sorting belt) systems
• Safe transport in waste management and recycling
  facilities

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Whats available now?

• Green waste collection health issues
• Orphaned compressed gas cylinders in the waste
  and recycling industries
• Waste and recycling vehicles in street collection
• The safe use of refuse collection vehicles hoists
  and bins

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Whats available now?

• Skip and container safety in waste management and
  recycling
• Safe handling of asbestos at CA sites
• Safe use of skip loaders (pocket sized booklet
  aimed at drivers)
• Compaction equipment User and public safety

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Whats in the pipeline?

• Good practice documents which are currently being
  written and will be released over the next years
  include
• Safe handling of hazardous wastes at CA sites
• Safety at bring sites
• Practical considerations for lock-off procedures
• Health risks in waste collection
• Glass kerbside collection noise reduction
  techniques
• Managing task and finish to reduce safety risks
• Hand sorting of recyclables (totting) with
  vehicle assistance

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No shortage of guidance

• There has never been more, or more accessible,
  guidance for waste managers aimed directly at the
  industry
• Increasingly this good practice guidance is
  filling the gaps where general HS guidance
  misses the mark for waste management activities
• But, for general issues you still need to consult
  the general guidance It is not the aim of WISH
  to double-cover issues

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What to do next

• If you have not done so already access the HSEs
  web site at http//www.hse.gov.uk/waste/wish.htm,
  or put HSE into your search engine and select
  waste management under your industry on the
  HSEs home page
• Download the good practice documents which apply
  to your activities
• Read and apply the guidance
• It is what you are likely to be judged on

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Anything WISH has missed?

• Finally, if you believe the current or
  forthcoming WISH good practice documents have
  missed a topic then contact WISH and ask
• WISH is the industrys forum and all input from
  waste managers is welcome