HSE to charge business £124 per hour for Health & Safety breaches
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is due to initiate its cost recovery scheme, Fee for Intervention (FFI), on 1 October 2012.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is due to initiate its cost recovery scheme, Fee for Intervention (FFI), on 1 October 2012.
Behavioural safety training specialists, and site accident reduction specialists Azea Ltd, are warning firms to ensure safety training programmes are in place and avoid the costly penalties that could be incurred.
The Fee for Intervention has been developed so that the HSE can recover costs from those businesses who fail to comply with health & safety laws. The hourly rate of £124.00 will allow HSE to recover costs from those who break health and safety laws, for the time and effort HSE spends helping to put matters right such as, investigating and taking enforcement action.
New, detailed guidance has been published on HSE's website setting out how the scheme will work in practice. Developed in consultation with representatives from industry, it explains how FFI works and includes examples illustrating how it would be applied.
HSE Resources
- Guidance on the application of Fee for Intervention (FFI)
- Fee for intervention: What you need to know - draft leaflet
- Enforcement Management Model
Gordon MacDonald, HSE's programme director, said:
"We have worked with industry representatives in shaping the final form of the scheme and the published guidance explains how the scheme will work and what businesses can do to comply with the law and avoid incurring a fee. It is right that those who break the law should pay their fair share of the costs to put things right - and not the public purse. Firms who manage workplace risks properly will not pay."
The Azea (Aiming for Zero Employee Accidents) Solution is aimed at improving workplace safety and reducing workplace accidents in the construction and utilities sectors. Azea enables companies to achieve safety and financial targets in a controlled, highly efficient and rapid way. Azea have taken a ground breaking approach to enhancing human behaviours, their training programmes are consistently reducing accident rates by improving cultures and attitudes often in a very short time frame.
Training Director Bruce Durham said:
“We recommend that firms put in place safety programmes that successfully reduce accident rates and promote safe behaviour for all employees before a HSE inspector visits your site. By creating the correct culture on site, you have less chance of accidents occurring in the first place due to procedures being followed. Our senior team at Azea have a proven background on a global scale at delivering cultural improvement systems within high pressure organisations.”
A spokesperson is available from Azea for media comment.
About Azea Limited
Azea is the market leader for providing behavioural safety training and accident reduction solutions to the construction, oil and gas, nuclear and utility industries.Results include higher productivity, pride in the company, staff retention, and lower accident rates. Azea enables companies to improve productivity by creating an enthusiastic and positive culture of safety through the empowerment of employees. This empowerment leads to an effective safety culture being embedded in the DNA of the business.
Azea offers company-transforming experiences that make a real and measurable positive impact on organisations and the daily lives of employees.
Contact Details:
Azea Ltd,
Tel: 01665 714 000
E-mail: info@azea.co.uk
Website: www.azea.co.uk
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