A round-up of the latest news and prosecutions from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) HSE to Make Cost Recovery Dispute Process Fully Independent The HSE has announced that it will consult on proposals to make its cost recovery dispute scheme, Fee for Intervention (FFI), fully independent.
Since the new guidelines from the Sentencing Council came into force in February 2016, the number of health and safety prosecutions against directors has tripled and UK businesses have seen a dramatic rise in the value of health and safety fines.
According to the HSE, last year 144 employees were killed at work and 1.
In 2016, HSE inspectors visited 1,840 small refurbishment sites and found 49% fell below standards, a 3% increase on the previous year.
UK workspaces are some of the safest in the world, but employers still need to take steps to protect employees from accidents.