UK – HSE has published its new strategy “The Health and Safety of Great Britain” 10.06.2009
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The Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 established the simple yet enduring principle that those who create risk are best placed to manage it. The Act led to the setting up of the Health and Safety Commission (HSC) and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and established HSE and local authorities as joint enforcers of health and safety law.
On 1 April 2008 HSC and HSE merged to form a single entity known as the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). HSE is the national regulatory body responsible for promoting the cause of better health and safety at work within Great Britain. It continues to work in close partnership with local authorities. One of the first undertakings of the new HSE Board was to reset and reaffirm the direction of health and safety.
This document presents the Board’s strategy for the health and safety system as a whole. It recognises and addresses the many stakeholders who have a role in maintaining or improving health and safety standards.
Those stakeholders include:
\\ employers and their representative bodies;
\\ the self-employed;
\\ workers and their representative bodies;
\\ HSE;
\\ local authorities;
\\ Government, through its departments and agencies etc;
\\ the devolved administrations and their agencies etc;
\\ professional bodies;
\\ voluntary and third sector organisations.
To be truly effective, health and safety has to be an everyday process supported by all as an integral part of workplace culture.
