The government has announced that they have made significant progress in reforming Health and Safety requirements. The government has been working towards implementing some of the recommendations made in the Löfstedt Report in 2011 and the Young Report in 2010.
Steps taken to date include:
- scrap or simplify more than half of health and safety legislation by 2014
- the clarification of Portable Appliance Testing (PAT) requirements and
- a reduction of one third in the number of inspections made by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
Professor Löfstedt said the government is 'supporting a more risk-and evidence-based approach to health and safety'.
Internet links: Press release HSE website