Health and safety inspectors are too lenient with enforcement

An internal audit undertaken by the HSE into enforcement decisions by both HSE and Local Authority (LA) inspectors found that inspectors should be prosecuting in three times as many cases than they currently do.

The audit report, which has been obtained by the Corporate Centre for Accountability (CCA) under the Freedom of Information Act, and has until now not been made public, concludes that there is a “serious gap” in inspectors’ implementation of HSE's own enforcement g... (625 more words)

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