Jersey Safety Council Annual Report and Accounts 2025

STATES OF JERSEY

JERSEY SAFETY COUNCIL ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2025

Presented to the States on 5th March 2026 by the Minister for Social Security

STATES GREFFE

2026  R.33

The Jersey Safety Council Annual Report 2025

Jersey Safety Council Committee

Chair  

Treasurer Honorary Members

Ex Officio Member HSI representative: Ex Officio Member:

Administration Support: Concluded Terms:

John Gavey (from July 2025) Adrian de Gruchy

Jean Rhodes (from October 2025) Ross Muir

Tom Stead

Elaine Harbour

Dr Chris Edmond (from October 2025)

Anne Matthews

Steve Taylor (Chair) – term concluded June 2025 Edward Palmer – term concluded June 2025

The Jersey Safety Council committee continues to have a diverse membership, with experience spanning the construction, utility, health, government, pharmaceutical, occupational health and training sectors.

Chairman's Report Summary

In 2025, the Council continued its commitment to improving health and safety standards across Jersey through a range of targeted initiatives. Key efforts focused on competence development and the ongoing promotion of Behavioural Safety Leadership (BSL), particularly within the construction sector to support those who had committed to conclude their training.

The Council new bursary scheme to support aspiring health and safety professionals and access to the Jersey Safety Awareness Test (JSAT), including its multilingual versions, was available throughout. Practical training remained a priority, with continued delivery of the HSPC and Applied Design Risk Management courses.

Support for the Jersey Occupational Safety and Health Association (JOSHA) continued, including sponsorship of the events for 2025. Financially, the Council maintained stability despite reduced training income, supported by prudent management and use of reserves. Looking ahead, 2026 will see a review of the BSL programme, supporting the work of the Health and Safety Inspectorate through the launch of the latest Approved Code of Practice throughout the year and beyond. The Council remains dedicated to supporting Jersey's evolving safety culture.

The committee saw several changes throughout 2025 with the terms concluding for two sitting members, the Committee thanks them for all their support during their terms. This led to two appointments being made in October 2025 of Jean Rhodes and Dr Chris Edmond.

2025 Activity

Competence Development

Throughout 2025 the Council continued to provide opportunities for leaders and employees to develop their health and safety competencies in a cost-effective and timely manner. In accordance with its references and objectives, the Council continues to focus on the provision of courses that would either be impractical or uneconomic for others to provide and to provide them at just above a break even' point.

Behavioural Safety Leadership

Throughout 2025, Council continued to promote Behavioural Safety Leadership, focusing primarily within the construction sector. The programme aims to make everyone aware of their safety responsibilities and the consequences on the company, staff, and family when things go wrong. Training starts with higher management attending 3 modules looking at safety culture, their legal responsibilities and training in visible safety leadership. Training is then cascaded down to junior leaders, who attend a one-day course. A short 2-hour module developed for workers in both English and Portuguese, focuses on making safety personal and productive safety conversations.

Council ran fewer courses in 2025 due to decreased demand, with engagement numbers rising slightly to a total of 2,660 individuals from 125 companies at Senior Leader, Junior Leader and Worker levels.

Four major States clients, namely Andium, Jersey Ports, Jersey Property Holdings and Jersey Development Company have participated in the programme and subsequently embedded attendance as a mandatory requirement for all companies wishing to tender for contracts. These four States clients also adopted a Client Safety Charter, based on the principal contractor safety charter, that enables them to publicly state their beliefs and expectations about safety.

The New Healthcare Facilities Programme team attended during 2025 with their plan that Behavioural Safety Leadership will be rolled out on the New Hospital project sites.

Council is currently considering what options best meet the asks of the business community to build on the current content to include diversification for other sectors.

Bursary

Council has developed a scheme to assist Jersey develop its Future Health and Safety Leaders. The scheme is open to individuals with less than 5 years' experience who are either working in, or planning to work in, a health and safety role and require professional health and safety training. Council will award a successful applicant a grant of upto £2,000 to assist with tuition fees. The bursary has been launched in January 2025 and promoted monthly via Social Media accounts.

Practical Health & Safety Project Coordinator and Applied Design Risk Management Course

Council noted a steady demand for HSPC training and therefore ran two courses in 2025. These were well attended by new and previous delegates. The venue and delivery partner has been well received since the changes made in 2024 and continues to be favourable for those attending and the Council.

Jersey Safety Awareness Test (JSAT)

The JSAT (Construction) is well established in Jersey as a key test that enables construction workers to demonstrate a solid understanding of basic safety requirements in the industry in Jersey. It is now widely supported with 859 individuals having successfully completed the basic level test in 2025. The JSAT certificate is valid for 3 years and, over the last 3 years, 1,938 workers have passed the test.

In order to ensure that JSAT cards were only given to those who had actually sat and passed the test, Council decided that JSAT can only be taken at a Registered Testing Station.

Following the success of JSAT, Council launched a sister course in Q1 2021, JSAT Advanced (Construction), which is designed for those in supervisory or managerial roles who are responsible for the management of construction sites. The test has already been passed by 821 delegates, of which 124 individuals passed during 2025. In addition, Council has agreed that Highlands College can conduct Advanced Tests for their students.

Council recognised that the construction sectors employ a diverse workforce. To make the JSAT Basic more accessible to non-native English speakers, Council, with sponsorship from Andium Homes and Camerons, launched Portuguese, Polish and French versions in early 2021. To-date, 839 individuals have passed the tests, 76% of whom were Portuguese speakers, 20% are Polish speakers and 4% are French speakers.

Jersey Occupational Safety and Health Association

Council continued to support the Jersey Occupational Safety & Health Association (JOSHA) to create a sustainable future. During 2025, JOSHA delivered four events covering health and safety for a mortuary technician, key skills for demanding days of trauma and hosting the first Jersey Health and Safety Conference.

These events were attended by ninety-five individuals and were a mixture of in-person and virtual.

The JOSHA Management Committee comprises representatives from health, facilities management, consultancy, ports, quarries and the public sector.

Membership remained strong through 2025 with 153 individuals covering 73 organisations (noting an increase in organisations, these figures include new registrations following a number of business ceasing to trade during 2025 who were registered members) with engagement through email and social media sites (LinkedIn, Facebook and X) reaching 561 followers by the end of 2025.

Plans for 2026 include at least four events and to deliver the 2026 Jersey Health and Safety Conference. Council has sponsored the rooms for these events through 2026, providing an opportunity to promote Councils work at each.

Guernsey Occupational Safety and Health Association

Council had the opportunity to send a representative to the Guernsey Occupational Safety and Health Association (GOSHA) Health and Safety Conference. The conference was well attended and enabled further pan-island discussions concerning the work of Council, including the support for JOSHA and how the initiatives can benefit all involved.

Website and Publicity

Council has continued to use their website as a vehicle to support the work of HSI and promote training courses and services of health and safety professionals across various sectors.

The Council's Facebook and LinkedIn pages regularly posted items of interest throughout 2025 with over 300 followers.

Publications

Accident Book

Stock has been maintained throughout 2025, with hard copies available from Maritime House.

Essential Health & Safety Toolkit

The Council continues to hold a stock of these free handouts which comply with Construction (Jersey) Regulations 2016. These useful toolkits are displayed at the HSI and at JSAT Testing Stations and are distributed at training courses.

Scaffold Inspection Book

This book, developed by Council, enables scaffold inspections to be recorded in accordance with the legal requirements. This tool is promoted on the HSI website and is available at Maritime House.

Financials

The 2025 prepared accounts are attached in appendix A.

Key points to note are that:

• The grant was held at the reduced rate of £11,000 in 2025, down from £16,000 in 2021. This grant has covered the basic operating costs of Council in the past with the intention to directly invest the equivalent level of funding to support the Inspectorates work from 2026. Development of new initiatives are covered from Councils' reserve funds

• After investing significantly in 2021 to develop the Behavioural Safety Leadership program Council has recouped this investment in 2022 and now is making

surplus through careful management of the training schedule to match demand

• JSAT income was stable but training income reduced by 60%, primarily due to decrease in Behavioural Safety Leadership training

• Sponsorship of £2,000 was provided to JOSHA to cover the costs of running four events in 2026

• Sponsorship of £4,000 was provided to JOSHA for Council to be the headline sponsor of the second Jersey Health and Safety Conference planning in September 2026

• The use of an online accounting package, Xero, continues to facilitate increased cost control and invoicing as it is multi-user and allows real-time visibility of the financials

2026 and Beyond

The first theme is to review the Behavioural Safety Leadership programme. Council will consider options to develop the existing material to fit the current asks of the business community, in particular supporting the smaller organisations to attend without significant financial burden such as loss of revenue to do so.

The second theme for 2026 is to support the second Jersey Health and Safety Conference with the potential to reach the largest group at a single event of those with an interest in health and safety. This principally will be through the headline sponsorship and visible presence at the exhibition.

Our new theme for 2026 is to support the launch of the latest Approved Code of Practice through its printing and organising events for organisations to attend. The intention is to host events throughout the year, recognising that there is no new duties for individuals or organisations contained within the Approved Code of Practice but to be used as a tool to help with understanding.

In other activities in 2026, Council will:

- Continue to support JOSHA

- Continue to promote JSAT Basic and JSAT Advanced (Construction)

- Continue to promote that JSAT Basic is available in Portuguese, Polish and French

- Continue to promote and deliver the HSPC and Applied Design Risk Management Course

- Continue to maintain and use the website and social media channels to deliver timely information to interested safety professionals and businesses

Thanks

We would like to express our thanks to the Minister for Social Security for her decision to continue to support the work undertaken by Council.

Thanks also go to the Director of the Health and Safety Inspectorate for the advice and support Council received from the Director and her team throughout the year.

The Jersey Safety Council  Accounts Independent Examiner Donmarder,  Mrs Catherine Swemmer FCCA, Le Clos du Roncherez,  Tequila, Rue de Jambert,

St Brelade,  St Clement

Jersey

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