Industrial Health and Safety
(asked on 18th May 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) inspections have been carried out and (b) enforcement notices have been issued by the Health and Safety Executive in each of the last four months.
The number of proactive inspections carried out and enforcement notices issued by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in each of the last four months are below:
Calendar Month 2020 | Proactive Inspections | Enforcement Notices Served |
January | 897 | 375 |
February | 1040 | 562 |
March | 587 | 483 |
April | 78 | 68 |
Up to 18th May | 50 | 57 |
1) The above data was extracted from HSE’s operational database on 18th May 2020 and is subject to change e.g. the administrative process of recording the information in the database can take up to 10 days.
2) In March, HSE temporarily suspended proactive visits to sites to allow social distancing measures to be put in place to protect visiting staff. It has since developed plans for resuming proactive site inspections.
3) The above data excludes investigations of workplace concerns including those relating to COVID-19, where checks have been made to ensure that measures have been put in place to comply with the law.