About Safety in Manufacturing Plastics 'SIMPL'

Launched, October 14th 2010, SIMPL (Safety In Manufacturing PLastics) is an initiative developed to reduce the incidence of accidents and ill-health in the UK Plastics Industry. SIMPL has been developed by the British Plastics Federation in partnership with fellow industry trade associations, employers organisations, trade unions, HSE and training organisations including...

• Health & Safety Executive (HSE)
• Packaging and Films Associations (PAFA)
• Composites UK
• Polymer Training and Innovation Centre 
• UNITE 
• GMB

The SIMPL initiative will run over three years from 2011 to 2014, bringing together all parts of the industry in a bid to stimulate progress on on accident and ill-health reduction across the board.

Strategic Objectives

• Leaderships Objective
      
  Employer associations and their participating members will demonstrate visible felt leadership. This will include specific actions at board level, including driving safety culture and personal activity (eg through leading audits, chairing health and safety committees, setting health and safety objectives for managers and their organisations, etc).
        
• Management System Objective
  
  Participating companies will establish a health and safety management system commensurate with the size and complexity of the company, with appropriate arrangements for policy, planning, implementation, monitoring and review.
      
• Workforce Involvement Objective
  
  Companies and employee representatives will collaborate to encourage the active engagement of the workforce in all elements of the management system.
      
• Risk Reduction Objective
  
  Each participating employers’ organisation will establish an action plan for its members (click here to view the BPF's SIMPL Charter and Action Plan). Such plans shall consider the key health and safety issues and challenges relevant in their sector. The plans should define risk assessment criteria (means for prioritising issues for action in the industry) delivery arrangements, success criteria and monitoring arrangements.
      
• Accident Reduction Objective
  
  Each participating employer organisation will firstly establish a consistent accident reporting format in year one and establish baseline statistics. They should, from that, define a year-on-year reduction target (percentage) which is challenging, proportional and relevant to that position.
  

The BPF and SIMPL

 " The BPF has a long tradition of leadership on health and safety having produced the basic codes of practice for machinery safeguarding with the HSE. Safety is a key part of what it means to be a sustainable company and our strong contribution to SIMPL fits well with what the BPF is all about - improving business in the UK plastics industry."

Peter Davis, SIMPL Launch 14th October 2010

CLICK HERE to download the BPF's SIMPL Charter and Health & Safety Action Plan.

The BPF actively engages with it Membership through its Industrial Health & Safety Committee. Any current BPF Members interested in H&S are invited to get involved.

Further information, advice and guidance on Industrial Health & Safety is also available, CLICK HERE for more information

Get involved and Show your commitment

The BPF is committed to helping to improve health and safety across all sectors of the UK Plastics Industry. All Members of the British Plastics Federation are encouraged to sign the ‘SIMPL Pledge’.  Each signing up company will receive a certificate for display in their business                    The SIMPL initiative objective aim is to help companies comply with existing laws in practical ways that are right for their business whilst improving health and safety standards for the workforce

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Related Documents

About SIMPL (SIMPL Presentation.pdf)
Presentation on the SIMPL Strategy

Safety in Manufacturing Plastics Strategy 2011-2014 (HSESIMPL.pdf)
Introduction to SIMPL by HSE

SIMPL Charter and Action Plan (BPFActionPlan.pdf)
Charter and Health & Safety Action Plan

SIMPL Pledge (SIMPL Pledge.doc)
SIMPL Pledge