Health and Safety
Executive / Commission
Simplification plan
Over the next year, HSE will continue to progress work on its administrative burden reduction projects. This will involve a number of elements, for example:
HSE will also seek to influence the better regulation agenda in Europe, through its negotiating strategies on individual dossiers and as part of the central government drive. HSE will also maintain its work on the Hampton agenda, including implementing the recommendations of its Hampton Implementation Review.
To help SMEs comply, HSE will continue to ensure that guidance is written with small businesses in mind. HSE will also look at whether it is possible to exempt small businesses from new or existing regulatory requirements in line with the Government’s Enterprise Strategy, and if this is not possible, seek to minimise the impact on SMEs.
HSE will continue to welcome suggestions from stakeholders for simplifications, which do not reduce levels of health and safety protection. These can be submitted to BRE’s simplification website or to HSE Infoline.
HSE’s better regulation work will continued to be overseen internally by a high level monitoring group – the Better Regulation Oversight Group (BROG). BROG maintains the focus on better regulation across the organisation as a whole and scrutinises all significant simplification initiatives, evidence of HSE’s commitment to this agenda.
HSE’s Better Regulation Team has split into two separate teams, allowing the formation of a Policy Capability Team. In the next year, this new team will focus on working internally with colleagues across HSE to embed the principles of better regulation into how the organisation works.
HSE’s 2009 Simplification Plan will provide a progress report on all of these areas, and will include any new initiatives or proposals from stakeholders.