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HSE enforcement crisis: Hundreds of jobs to go |
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Written by Rory ONeill
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Friday, 11 August 2006 |
Come clean
Health and Safety Executive (HSE) chief executive Geoffrey Podger and his Health and Safety Commission (HSC) sidekick Bill Callaghan say the enforcement-lite safety watchdog is performing well. But Hazards editor Rory O’Neill says all the key indicators reveal the new-look business friendly UK system is facing a serious and deepening crisis.
Official HSE inspections, prosecutions, convictions, notices, regulatory contacts and contact time have all fallen. And on 10 August 2006 HSE staff were told between 250 and 350 jobs are to go by March 2008, accompanied by £5.6m in cuts to "programme and other expenditure".
Story in full: http://www.hazards.org/commissionimpossible/comeclean.htm
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