Government launches consultation on abolition of Health and Safety rules
December 2, 2011Following an independent review, the government is launching a consultation on the abolition of some of the health and safety rules.
The review was carried out by Prof Ragnar E Lofstedt, director of the Centre for Risk Management at King’s College London.
In his report, Professor Löfstedt’s sets out a number of risk- and evidence-based recommendations that will:
- reduce regulatory requirements on business where they do not lead to improved health and safety outcomes, and
- remove pressures on business to go beyond what the regulations require, enabling them to reclaim ownership of the management of health and safety.
He concludes that the problem “lies less with the regulations themselves and more with the way they are interpreted and applied”.
The employment minister said the moves would “root out needless bureaucracy”.
The Government response to the report supports the recommendations of the review and is committed to taking swift action to implement them.
Full details of the review and Government response can be found on the DWP website.
The government says over the next three years, around 200 health and safety regulations will be reduced by more than half.
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