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September 2011 – Health and Safety Executive consultation on intervention cost recovery closes.

The Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) three-month long consultation on recovering the cost of health and safety interventions will close on 14 October 2011.

The new system will extend the current cost recovery arrangement from hazardous industries such as nuclear power and offshore oil and gas installations to all UK industries where a material breach of health and safety law (i.e. one requiring a formal written intervention) has occurred.

Under the new system, the HSE will have a duty to recover the cost of their interventions estimated at £330 per hour plus the cost of any specialist support. The consultation is on how the scheme will operate in practice rather than whether it should or should not be introduced.

The system could be in force by as early as April of 2012.

Full details are available at: http://www.hse.gov.uk/consult/condocs/cd235.htm