Response A1346701

Response to request for information

Reference

A1346701

Response date

4 April 2022

Request

Gedling Borough Council are currently reviewing the provision of its Health and Safety and Emergency Planning functions and are looking to get a better understanding of how other authorities exercise these functions and would appreciate if you could take the time to provide an answer to the following questions.

1. How is the Health and Safety function delivered at your Council?
   • Delivered in house
   • Outsourced to a private provider
   • Outsourced to another Local Authority
   • As a joint service with another authority
   • Other (please specify)
2. What is the total costs to the Council for the Health and Safety service?
3. Total number of employees at the authority
4. Number of employees in Health and Safety and how many are full-time and part-time.

Response

1. How is the Health and Safety function delivered at your Council?
   • Delivered in house
   • Outsourced to a private provider
   • Outsourced to another Local Authority
   • As a joint service with another authority
   • Other (please specify)

   • Other (please specify)

     Delivered in house but currently working with Bolsover at putting together an SLA for them to deliver some H&S functions such as audit, accident investigations and training – this will be on an ad-hoc basis working on a daily rate for H&S support

     Note Emergency Planning is no longer provided by the H&S Advisor role at RBC. RBC have an agreement with Notts County Council to provide this service to us.

2. What is the total costs to the Council for the Health and Safety service?

   • £15,000 has been allocated for 2022/23 which will be used to pay for work allocated to Bolsover or other consultant

     H&S is delivered internally as a part of the Strategic HR Managers role. Previously RBC had 1 H&S Advisor in post 18.5hr a week part time - pay scale £31K to £36k. This person has been promoted into Strategic HR Manager role on 30hrs a week. Her time is divided between H&S, Strategic HR and managing the HR Team. This role commenced 01/03/2022 and therefore difficult to determine how much of the time will be spent on H&S. Anticipated less than 1 day a week.

3. Total number of employees at the authority

   • Approx. 260. Will be increasing to approx. 310 in September 2022

4. Number of employees in Health and Safety and how many are full-time and part-time.
   • 1 part time as explained in question 2)