What has a large grocer to say that will alter the future of health and safety at work? David Eves examines Sainsbury chairman Philip Hampton's recommendations for a new regulatory order, which has seen the Health and Safety Commission survive the cull of the quangos, while some other watchdogs face radical changes. If you hadn't noticed you may bi: forgiven, but the chairman of J Sainsbury plc is about to change Britain's regulatory landscape. Tucked away in his Budget Statement for 2004, Gordon Brown announced he had commissioned a review "to consider the scope for reducing regulatory burdens on business by promoting more efficient approaches to regulatory inspection and enforcement without reducing regulatory outcomes".
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