About Regulators' Compliance Code

• Regulators' Compliance Code

A transparent and accountable regulator with a clear focus on tackling the key causes of injury and ill-health at work, HSE recognises the need for regulators to achieve their regulatory objectives without imposing unnecessary burdens on those they regulate, as envisaged in the Government’s statutory code of practice for regulators (the Regulators’ Compliance Code).  We have published a short statement setting out how our Enforcement Policy Statement (EPS), developed in the mid 1990s, and updated in 2009, and other high-level policies meet the obligations set out in the Code.  These policies ensure HSE follows a risk-based, proportionate and targeted approach - consequently, no changes were needed to the way HSE regulates and enforces health and safety at work since the Code came into force on 6 April 2008.