Health and safety regulations for smaller employers will be cut.
In the Autumn Statement 2011, Chancellor George Osborne announced that the government has accepted the recommendations of Professor Lofstedt’s Reclaiming health and safety for all review, which was published yesterday.
The recommendations include:
- exempting self-employed people posing no risk to others from health and safety legislation;
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Tynan Barton is a business journalist and has been writing in the employee benefits and HR field for over 15 years. She joined Employee Benefits in 2010 as reporter, and has been features editor since 2011.View full profile