Government plans could give responsible firms greater health and safety freedom
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The government has announced plans to undertake a wide-ranging review of the current health and safety laws in place in the UK.
Geared towards easing the amount of red tape that the nation's businesses have to deal with, these latest plans will see inspectors urged to take a more-targeted approach to their work.
Agencies such as the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) will be tasked with keeping a close eye on rogue employers and those companies working within high-risk sectors such as nuclear energy and construction, while those firms with excellent track records will be given a relatively free rein.
Outlining the plans, the government's employment minister Chris Grayling is expected to tell delegates gathered for a special London conference on the issue: "The purpose of health and safety regulation is to protect people at work and rightly so, but we need common sense at the heart of the system, and these measures will help root out the needless burden of bureaucracy."
According to the Guardian, the new measures could see the number of automatic health and safety inspections of UK workplaces cut by a third to around 11,000 a year.
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