Focus on rogue businesses. Following Lord Young’s recommendations in October 2010 regarding simpler regulations for health and safety at work (see our dispatch No. 100733), which the Prime Minister accepted, the government is launching its reform of health and safety at work. The main theme is the reduction of unnecessary red tape businesses have to deal with and support growth. There are three general desires: first, take the increase in health and safety away from respectful businesses, concentrating efforts on high risk locations. Thus, the number of inspections across the country should be reduced by at least one third. “Responsible” employers will no longer face automatic health and safety inspections; inspectors will concentrate their efforts on high risk locations, like major energy facilities, and on rogue employers who are putting the safety of their staff and the public at risk. Besides, rogue employers, not taxpayers, will have to pay for the costs of the investigation into their activities.
le” employers will no longer face automatic health and safety inspections; inspectors will concentrate their efforts on high risk locations, like major energy facilities, and on rogue employers who are putting the safety of their staff and the public at risk. Besides, rogue employers, not taxpayers, will have to pay for the costs of the investigation into their activities.
Qualified consultants. Second aspect of the reform: eliminate “cowboy” health and safety consultants who are unqualified b
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