Not even the HSE is immune from Government cutbacks - they have been required to make a minimum of 35% savings in their reliance on public funding over the next four years. So, how do they plan doing it? Most interesting is the encouragement from Ministers to look at ways in which HSE can replace Government funding with income from other sources. The good news for hard pressed businesses is that HSE are working on a proposal to charge those who HSE decide create risks. A so-called: “fee for fault” principle. The idea is that those who are found not to be compliant with the law during an inspection by HSE should be charged for the work HSE.
MacRoberts Solicitors, February 2011
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