Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Employers to pay Health & Safety Executive costs

HSE has launched its three-month consultation on plans for costs of interventions to be recovered from businesses found to be in material breach of health and safety law. The aim of the consultation is to provide businesses with the opportunity to comment and share their views on how the costs will be recovered in practice. The deadline for consultation responses is 14 October.

To view the consultation document please click on the following link

http://www.hse.gov.uk/consult/condocs/cd235.htm

Under 'fee for intervention', costs would be recovered from the start of the intervention where the material breach was identified up to the point where HSE's intervention in supporting businesses in putting matters right has concluded.

No costs would apply for purely technical breaches and compliant dutyholders would pay nothing.

The Government has agreed the underlying principle of 'fee for intervention' and the new scheme could apply as early as April 2012 if possible.

 

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