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Improving Health and Safety Regulations

The Better Regulation Executive (BRE) health and safety review is looking at ways to improve the regulations for health and safety in the workplace, to better protect employees and customers.

As part of the review, the BRE is looking at the roles of:

• employees and their representatives
• insurers
• customers
• consultants
• trade bodies
• lawyers and GPs
• health and safety/environmental health inspectors.

What do you think of health and safety regulations?

If you have an opinion, the BRE wants to hear from you.

The BRE has issued an open call to anyone who would like to share their views on the current regulations, or has ideas on what other measures to introduce.

It would like to know, for example:

• What are the main things that influence health and safety in your organization?
• How well are you and the other people at your work protected?
• Are there particular health and safety requirements that do not make sense to you? What are they?
• Would you rather the Government told you exactly what to do, or do you want the detail left for you to sort out?
• Have you found any particular initiatives especially helpful? (e.g. risk assessments)

Your responses will be fed into a review called ‘Improving Outcomes from Health and Safety: A Call for Evidence’. This is looking for ways to make sure health and safety requirements for business are achieving their objectives, without being a drain on resources.

• Improving outcomes from health and safety: a call for evidence  (509KB)

The project team will not respond to individuals about their views, and cannot deal with specific complaints about the way the inspection bodies have dealt with individual businesses. These should be reported through the normal channels.

Note: This review is not being carried out by the health and safety inspecting bodies, and no information about individual businesses will be passed on to them, unless it is in the public interest to do so.