Seven in 10 OH professionals responding to our latest Tea-breaker poll would like to see more HSE enforcement action for occupational health breaches. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic there was a dramatic and consistent decline in the number of prosecutions for health and safety offences in Britain. The number of prosecutions for health and safety breaches brought by the HSE in England and Wales or by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service in Scotland fell from 1,668 prosecutions in 2002/03 to 342 in 2019/20. Over the same period, the number of enforcement notices issued by the HSE fell from 13,263 to 7,073.
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