Health & Safety Executive Intervention Fees

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has proposed to introduce a fee for the ‘intervention cost recovery scheme’ with effect from 1 October 2012, subject to Parliamentary approval of the proposed Health and Safety (Fees) Regulations 2012.

In the event of this passing the HSE will be able to recover its costs for carrying out its regulatory functions from those found to be in material breach of health and safety law. A material breach is, when in the opinion of the HSE inspector, there has been a contravention of health and safety law that is serious enough to require them to notify the person in material breach of that opinion in writing.

The businesses and organisations that break health and safety laws may have to pay for the HSE’s time in putting matters right, investigating and taking enforcement action. Without FFI, this is paid for from the public purse. The proposed Fee for Intervention hourly rate for 2012/13 is £124.