Business plans

HSE Business Plan 2012-15

HSE Business Plan 2012 - 15

I am pleased to present HSE's Business Plan for 2012-15, which sets out the ambitious and challenging range of activities HSE will undertake over the next three years to deliver our part in improving the health and safety performance of Great Britain. The plan is a mix of continuing "business as usual" activities in many frontline areas whilst also delivering significant reform.  

If we have played our part successfully, by 2015 HSE will have:

• reduced and simplified the stock of regulation without reducing levels of protection
• made it easier for people to understand what is required, leading to increased levels of compliance;
• devoted a greater proportion of effort where risks are highest and where we can have greatest impact;
• continued to hold to account those who expose their employees and others to unnecessary risk; and
• drawn a clearer distinction between real health and safety and the bureaucratic over interpretation which gets in the way.

This in turn should lead to better leadership and implementation by employers and even greater engagement of employees. Our shared goal is to prevent death injury and ill health caused by work and it is the sum total of what we all do that will lead to creating an environment for business growth coupled with further year on year reductions in the numbers of people harmed by work in Great Britain.

Judith Hackitt
Chair