Health in Industry (HI) Management Standard
What is the Health in Industry (HI) Management Standard?
The HI Management Standard is simply an assessment tool to help you manage safety and health as an integral part of a business. Businesses need to do a risk assessment to find out about the hazards and risks in their workplace(s) and put measures in place to effectively control them to ensure these hazards and risks cannot cause harm to workers.
This tool can be used by managers responsible for health and safety on construction sites. It can also be used by companies of all sizes to assess how well they prevent and control employees’ exposure to the risks from construction work that cause ill health and disease.
How to Use the HI Standard Self-Assessment Tool
Use this tool company-wide or for individual sites and projects to help you identify, assess and manage health hazards to prevent or reduce the risk to worker health.
It provides a six-point framework of good practice to help companies of all sizes to introduce, manage and improve their Worker Health Protection programmes, ensuring that the health risks are appropriately recognized, evaluated and controlled.
Identify where the lowest score and create an action plan.
Examples
Score Sheet Template
Identify the lowest score and create an action plan.
Action Plan Template
Six Areas of Improvement for Worker Health Protection
The HI Management Standard has identified six leading indicators that help companies of all sizes to introduce, manage and improve their Worker Health Protection programmes, ensuring that the health risks are appropriately recognized, evaluated and controlled.
This is our response to the question of what good looks like.
Leadership & Commitment
Demonstrate that Worker Health Protection is valued
Planning & Prevention
Eliminate and minimize risks to health early on: design and plan them out wherever possible
Risk Assessment
Assess the actual risks to health from workplace activities and substances (don’t just list the hazards)
Control
Adopt the most effective and appropriate exposure controls to prevent ill health and disease
Competency, Training & Behaviours
Ensure that every worker is on board, is competent in, and takes ownership of, their own health risk management at work
Programme Management
Manage Worker Health Protection all the time: over the whole site, before and throughout every project, and from the top to the bottom of the company
Identify, assess and manage workplace health risks
- Identify strengths and weaknesses
- Set priorities
- Develop action plans
- Share with others to show your approach
