The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a consultation setting out proposals for a National Local Authority Enforcement Code.
The Code has been developed in response to the Professor Ragnar Löfstedt report "Reclaiming health & safety for all: An independent review of health and safety legislation" commissioned by the Minister for Employment which recommended that the HSE be given a stronger role in directing Local Authority health and safety inspection and enforcement activity.
It sets out Government expectations on a risk based approach to targeting health and safety regulatory interventions. By providing a principle based framework that recognises the respective roles of business and the regulator in the management of risk, it establishes the risk based approach to be followed by Local Authority regulators that will provide business with a consistency of approach. At the same time, following the principles of the Code will ensure Local Authorities make the best use of their regulatory resource by focussing their efforts where it really matters.
The consultation will end on 1 March 2013 and you can find out more information at http://cedr.ec/kg.
