Industrial Health and Safety: Coronavirus
(asked on 4th November 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) improvement notices and (b) prohibition notices have been issued and (c) prosecutions have been instigated by the Health and Safety Executive in relation to employers not adequately managing the risks of covid-19 transmission in each month since March 2020.
The numbers of COVID-19 related Health and Safety Executive (HSE) intervention cases where the outcome is recorded as being an enforcement notice are shown in the table below. A breakdown of notices by type (prohibition / improvement notices) is not available.
Month (2020) | Number of intervention cases resulting in notices |
March | 0 |
April | 1 |
May | 9 |
June | 15 |
July | 32 |
August | 26 |
September | 30 |
October | 23 |
Total | 136 |
To date, there have been no COVID-19 transmission related prosecutions instigated by HSE.
Note - the above quoted numbers were taken from HSE’s live operational database on 5th November 2020 and are subject to change e.g. as there can be a delay before actions are updated on the database.