Industrial Health and Safety: Coronavirus

(asked on 1st June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many spot checks of workplaces the Health and Safety Executive has carried out to ensure that appropriate measures are in place to protect workers from covid-19 since 1 May 2020.


Answered by
Mims Davies Portrait
Mims Davies
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 23rd June 2020

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is currently setting up and trialling an approach to spot checks with initial contact being made remotely, and with a follow up with employers who do not provide the necessary assurance that they have sufficient measures in place to protect workers. As of 2nd June 2020, 108 initial contacts had been made and this number will increase significantly in the coming weeks.

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