Short impact assessments

An Impact Assessment (IA) is required for any proposal that imposes or reduces costs on businesses, charities or voluntary sector.  If having considered and analysed the options, the preferred option will reduce or increase costs to dutyholders by less than £5m in any one year, and it is unlikely to be contentious¹, then a full IA is not required.  However, a short IA will be required.

Copies of short IAs are available here, arranged on a year by year basis, in line with the financial year running from 1st April to 31st March.

A short IA is not a government requirement.  It is a measure introduced by HSE to ensure that option analysis and cost benefit considerations are proportionate to the final objective.  Short IAs are only published on HSE’s website.

April 2008 - March 2009

• Short Impact Assessment for the ART (Assessment of Repetitive Tasks) tool
• A Statutory Instrument amending the Biocidal Products Regulations 2001 (BPR)
• Fees Regulations 2009 - Central Index of Dosimetric Information (CIDI) - 2009/49481 [31KB]
• Falls from height decision matrix - 2008/612699 [32KB]
• Revised guide to safe operation and management of steam boilers. This option reinforces duties under previous legislation. - 2008/567257 [37KB]
• Whole Body Vibration - 2008/513567 [19KB]
• Revision of a key agriculture publication 'Farmwise - your essential guide to health and safety in agriculture' - 2008/249718 [39KB]
• Protecting people’s health from isocyanate exposure in spray booths and spray rooms - 2008/513590 [30KB]
• Occupational hygiene standard of good working practice to reduce the risk of respiratory disease on poultry farms - 2008/513590 [28KB]
• First and second adaptations to technical progress (ATPs) of classification, labelling and packaging (CLP) regulation - 2008/411944 [31KB]

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¹Contentious initiatives may include, for example, those that are likely to receive significant opposition from dutyholders and will lead to significant Government/Parliamentary lobbying and/or media attention.