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Lofstedt Report – Review Burden of Health and Safety

Feb 7, 2012 | Health & Safety, News, Sensible H&S Advice

Professor Lofstedt, Professor of Risk Management at King’s College London, was tasked in Early 2011 to provide the government with recommendations to reduce the regulatory burden of UK Health and Safety Regulations.

The main recommendations from the report:

1. Regulations should be based on risk, not business size.
2. Consolidate sector-specific regulations.
3. HSE to work more closely with the Local Authority to avoid inconsistent advice, in particular to small and low-risk businesses.
4. Exempt self-employed persons from regulations where they pose no risk to themselves or others (this is to exempt the work in a home office, but if they design public amenities or work at other locations, an assessment of their risks to others still exists).

These recommendations don’t change the way the Safewell team works. We have always based our work on risks first, so we can advise our clients on sensible health and safety solutions.

Sensible, risk-based health and safety is where the government wants health and safety to be; Safewell is already there.

View the report: lofstedt Report Nov 11

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