Health and Safety
Executive / Commission
Simplification plan
HSC/E is committed to the better regulation agenda and working towards its 25% target reduction in administrative burdens whilst improving or maintaining worker and public safety.
The plan published here is a summary of the HSC/E’s current plans for simplification and wider better regulation initiatives. These initiatives will each be monitored to ensure that real progress is made and that milestones outlined in the plan are reached according to timetable.
In its entirety the simplification plan project is designed to cover the timeframe May 2005 to May 2010. The plan is a rolling summary of initiatives, developing over time as work progresses, success is measured and new projects are developed.
The plan will be updated every year to take account of the progress made by the initiatives included in it and as a method of reporting on HSC/E’s overarching progress towards its administrative burden reduction target.
As part of updating the plan, new initiatives will be added as they are developed. These will take account of new proposals from stakeholders, projects scheduled into HSE’s work plan and initiatives developed as a result of research currently underway.
HSE’s high level monitoring group - BROG, chaired by its Deputy Chief Executive - maintains the focus on better regulation across the organisation as a whole and scrutinises all significant simplification initiatives. All the key initiatives will be expected to report on their progress to BROG to confirm that milestones are reached.
Plans are in hand to evaluate the simplification/better regulation programme as a whole. It is not appropriate for this project to begin until a significant proportion of the simplification initiatives in the plan have been completed, but it is anticipated that the research will be commissioned in 2009