Health and safety reform – a storm in a teacup?

01 May 2012

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May’s issue of Insight discusses the proposed plans of the Health and Safety Executive (“HSE”) to introduce a charging scheme in order to recover costs incurred by the HSE when investigating breaches and to axe various health and safety measures. In this issue Lisa Kingston examines what effect this reform might have on the construction industry.

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