Industrial Health and Safety: West Midlands
(asked on 21st July 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many investigations of workplace concerns relating to (a) covid-19 and (b) non-covid-19 concerns, where checks have been made to ensure that measures have been put in place to comply with the law, have been made in (i) Birmingham and (ii) the West Midlands in each month since January 2020; and how many enforcement notices served in respect of those investigations.
The table below shows the number of Covid-19 and non Covid-19 workplace concerns investigated by operational staff i.e. either Inspectors or Visiting Officers, by region and the number of Notices served.
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| January | February | March | April | May | June | July | TOTAL |
Birmingham | COVID concerns investigated* | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 40 |
| Notices issued | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Non-COVID concerns investigated* | 13 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 61 |
| Notices issued | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
West Midlands | COVID concerns investigated* | 0 | 1 | 0 | 167 | 93 | 55 | 30 | 346 |
| Notices issued | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Non-COVID concerns investigated* | 60 | 59 | 50 | 36 | 36 | 40 | 28 | 309 |
| Notices issued | 1 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
*includes those currently under investigation
NB the data was extracted from HSE’s live operational database on 22nd July 2020 and the numbers of investigations are based upon the date that the record was created. The Notice numbers are based upon the issue date and may change due to a lag between the date issued and the details being recorded in the operational database.