Tyne and Wear Branch
Tyne and Wear Branch From time to time, this page will contain links to any Branch Initiatives that are current, or features regarding initiatives that members are supporting or involved in.
If any Branch Member is planning to launch an innovative scheme, contact the Webmaster, or any Branch Committee Member, to see whether it would qualify for inclusion in this section of the Branch Website.
IOSH Tyne and Wear Branch is pleased to support as a stakeholder the HSE and Blyth Valley District Council Safer Working Towns Initiative 5th - 9th June 2006.
Documents available for download (MS Word):
For further details contact Peter Judd:
Peter Judd
Safety Officer
Public Health " Safety Section
Planning " Environmental Planning
Blyth Valley Borough Council
Council Offices
Avenue Road
Seaton Delaval
Northumberland
NE25 0DX
Tel: 01670 542 339
Fax: 01670 542 390
E Mail: pjudd@blythvalley.gov.uk
Research has shown that staff and students in a college music department may be exposed to noise doses which exceed the second Action Level defined by the Noise at Work Regulations.
This initiative brought interested parties together, in order to explore how compliance with the Regulations may be acheived.
In 1999, the Department of Health, within the national Healthy Workplace Initiative, made funding available for projects to explore ways to tackle the problem of back pain, the most common cause of absence from work in the UK. A total of 19 projects in England were funded, one of these being Back Awareness in Tyne and Wear - the BAIT project. The project was carried out by a partnership of organisations in Tyne and Wear - occupational health services from Newcastle, Gateshead and Sunderland, the Health and Safety Executive, Nissan and the Tyne and Wear health @ work Initiative. The project proposal was to produce a resource to help small organisations manage the problem of back pain, frequently experienced by employees. A group of 18 small organisations was recruited as an on-going consultation group, both to provide some local baseline data and to ensure the usefulness and relevance of the resource pack at every step of its production. The BAIT project ran from September 1999 until March 2001, with the production and dissemination of the final resource during the summer of 2001. The final resource is now available to download in PDF format, as a booklet with separate covers.