Health and Safety
Executive / Commission
Simplification plan
HSC/E’s second annual simplification plan outlines the progress we have made in simplifying compliance with health and safety law over the past year.
The plan complements HSC’s Strategy for workplace health and safety in Great Britain to 2010 and beyond and contributes to three of HSE’s four key business areas as outlined in the HSC Business Plan 2007/8:
Better, smarter legislation is easier to understand and apply. This can help secure stronger commitment to compliance, leading to better health and safety levels in the workplace.
Annual simplification plans are a cross-government initiative and support the Government’s better regulation agenda to reduce the costs to businesses of compliance with legal requirements.
Clearer, simpler guidance helps employers and employees to know what is required of them. The publication of the simplification plan tells all HSE’s stakeholders what it has done and plans to do to simplify legislation and guidance on health and safety in the workplace.
"Health and safety is about protecting lives at work, not about producing paper. We want to reduce paperwork, not protection. The plan sets out what we are doing to achieve this.”
Chair, Health and Safety Commission
October 2007
