Löfstedt has been asked by employment minister Chris Grayling to prepare a follow-up “mini-report” in the Autumn for publication by the end of January 2013 assessing progress in making his proposed changes.
“I have been asked to report on whether I am satisfied by the way the government is implementing my 26 recommendations,”. “And if I think anything else should be done.”
The recommendations from last year’s review, almost all of which were accepted by Grayling, included exempting some self-employed people from compliance with safety law, a review of core safety law to see if some common requirements can be consolidated and simplification of the HSE’s 53 approved codes of practice which guide dutyholders on how to meet regulatory requirements.
He said the team of researchers at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) who helped with the review will reassemble later in the year to help him evaluate progress on the recommendations.
The challenge panel made up of representatives of unions business and the major political parties, which advised him on last year’s review will probably reconvene for one meeting.
The result will be a 10-page summary of progress submitted to the minister in January and then made public.
The first report suggested varying deadlines for the proposed changes such as April 2013 for the HSE to review the Work at Height Regulations and April 2015 to examine regulations limited to particular industrial sectors such as construction, to see if there is scope for consolidating them.
The suggested timescales were later shortened by the prime minister, who said in an article in London’s Evening Standard newspaper in January that he had asked for most of the recommendations to be implemented by the end of this year.
Löfstedt said he had not seen a proposed timetable from the HSE or DWP but said he understood ministers were keeping up the pressure to meet the end-of-year deadline. “It’s getting tighter and tighter,” he said
The recommendations from last year’s review, almost all of which were accepted by Grayling, included exempting some self-employed people from compliance with safety law, a review of core safety law to see if some common requirements can be consolidated and simplification of the HSE’s 53 approved codes of practice which guide dutyholders on how to meet regulatory requirements.
He said the team of researchers at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) who helped with the review will reassemble later in the year to help him evaluate progress on the recommendations.
The challenge panel made up of representatives of unions business and the major political parties, which advised him on last year’s review will probably reconvene for one meeting.
The result will be a 10-page summary of progress submitted to the minister in January and then made public.
The first report suggested varying deadlines for the proposed changes such as April 2013 for the HSE to review the Work at Height Regulations and April 2015 to examine regulations limited to particular industrial sectors such as construction, to see if there is scope for consolidating them.
The suggested timescales were later shortened by the prime minister, who said in an article in London’s Evening Standard newspaper in January that he had asked for most of the recommendations to be implemented by the end of this year.
Löfstedt said he had not seen a proposed timetable from the HSE or DWP but said he understood ministers were keeping up the pressure to meet the end-of-year deadline. “It’s getting tighter and tighter,” he said
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