Health and Safety Executive: Inspections

(asked on 9th March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many regulatory interventions in relation to the covid-19 outbreak have been conducted (a) as a result of a site visit and (b) without a site visit in each month since March 2020.


Answered by
Mims Davies Portrait
Mims Davies
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 15th March 2021

HSE’s evidence is that more than 90% of the businesses checked have the right precautions in place or are willing to make necessary changes promptly and without the need for formal enforcement action. HSE inspectors do not conclude an intervention until they are confident a business has the right controls in place. HSE will continue to take enforcement action where appropriate, but the best use of its time and resource to ensure employers take the right action promptly is often to educate, persuade or require matters to be put right immediately.

In response to PQ 21/165426, the information is provided in the table below:

Month / Year

Concerns dealt with by Visiting / Regulatory Contact Officers

Concerns dealt with by Inspectors

March 2020

-

-

April 2020

203

1510

May 2020

148

835

June 2020

63

482

July 2020

55

339

August 2020

39

258

September 2020

74

330

October 2020

86

396

November 2020

94

387

December 2020

102

134

January 2021

154

271

February 2021

74

59

March 2021

4

6

Totals

1096

5,007

Notes:

i. Data was extracted from HSE’s live operational database on 10th March 2021 and is subject to change, eg.as there can be a delay of up to ten working days before information is uploaded to the system.

ii. HSE systems do not distinguish (in a readily accessible format) between interventions by Regulatory Contact Officers and Visiting Officers, who carry out a similar role but in different operational divisions.

In response to PQ 165427, the information is provided in the table below:

Month / Year

Concerns resulting in formal written correspondence

Concerns resulting in enforcement notices

March 2020

-

-

April 2020

46

1

May 2020

41

8

June 2020

37

10

July 2020

41

4

August 2020

23

4

September 2020

40

5

October 2020

30

1

November 2020

40

2

December 2020

17

0

January 2021

29

3

February 2021

14

1

March 2021

1

0

Totals

359

39

Note: Data was extracted from HSE’s live operational database on 10th March 2021 and is subject to change, eg.as there can be a delay of up to ten working days before information is uploaded to the system.

In response to PQ 165428, the information is provided in the table below:

Month / Year

Covid-19 interventions without site visit

Covid-19 interventions with site visit

Covid-19 interventions where visit status unclear from records

March 2020

4

2

-

April 2020

1,686

44

-

May 2020

924

134

-

June 2020

1,989

198

2

July 2020

2,527

1,646

48

August 2020

3,406

1,582

49

September 2020

9,008

2,202

52

October 2020

11,408

5,378

87

November 2020

11,256

9,382

52

December 2020

9,197

10,019

157

January 2021

11,721

13,586

42

February 2021

22,170

15,580

31

March 2021

6,586

3,870

8

Totals

91,882*

63,627

528

*In addition, there are over 14,500 ‘green’ concerns assessed as ‘low risk’ which have been dealt with by HSE’s Concerns and Advisory Team.

Note: Data was extracted from HSE’s live operational database on 10th March 2021 and is subject to change, eg.as there can be a delay of up to ten working days before information is uploaded to the system.

In response to PQ 165429, the information is provided in the table below:

Month / Year

Workplace concern interventions

Spot check interventions

Outbreak interventions

RIDDOR investigations (fatalities)

RIDDOR investigations (non fatalities)

Totals

March 2020

331

6

0

0

0

337

April 2020

3,721

12

1

0

0

3,734

May 2020

2,060

71

0

39

14

2,184

June 2020

1,247

1,632

5

33

15

2,932

July 2020

1,269

3,774

51

10

31

5,135

August 2020

1,016

4,692

45

5

7

5,765

September 2020

1,152

10,779

76

13

21

12,041

October 2020

1,520

16,252

131

7

14

17,924

November 2020

2,347

20,043

149

10

65

22,614

December 2020

1,202

19,071

64

16

35

20,388

January 2021

3,105

24,850

55

23

29

28,062

February 2021

1,578

37,608

39

21

26

39,272

March 2021

187

10,454

3

5

22

10,671

Totals

20,735*

149,244

619

182

279

171,059

*This total includes those concerns listed in the table above in response to PQ 21/165426, with the remainder being those concerns categorised as ‘green’ (assessed as ‘low risk’) which have been dealt with by HSE’s Concerns and Advisory Team.

Notes:

i. For RIDDOR investigations the number relates to specific matters; typically, there will be more than one visit when dealing with the matter.

ii. Data was extracted from HSE’s live operational database on 10th March 2021 and is subject to change, eg.as there can be a delay of up to ten working days before information is uploaded to the system.

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