Context. In preparation for the simplification of health and safety regulations (see our dispatch No. 110189) and following a consultation organized by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), shops are now considered as “low-risk” workplaces. Following Lord Young’s recommendations in his report on the reform of health and safety, the HSE provides simpler online tools for risk assessment for these workplaces considered as low-risk.
now considered as “low-risk” workplaces. Following Lord Young’s recommendations in his report on the reform of health and safety, the HSE provides simpler online tools for risk assessment for these workplaces considered as low-risk.
Criticism and concern. The Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) is fighting this trend, thinking that shops are potentially dangerous (because of robberies and assaults notably) and that lighter risk assessment doesn’t take account of all the ris
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