Lofstedt Health & Safety Regulation Review

COMMENTS BY Close of Play 27 JULY 2011 PLEASE

Please find four documents to do with the Löfstedt Review:

Original submission document – blank version.
PSS suggested response to 10 questions.
PSS suggested response to Regulations.
PSS suggested response to ACoPs.

Work has already been done on this in documents 2, 3 & 4, to assist you in your thought processes.

The PSS documents on ACoPs and Regulations have been extracted from Lofstedt document and sorted by subject and into what is thought relevant to Ports and what isn’t.

Please take a look at them, and:

• Provide your own comments for submission, as you see fit.

• Make comments on the proposed responses.

• Decide overall if you’re happy for this package of documents to be submitted to the Lofstedt Review.

We have also written a covering letter to the submission, the basic text is below:

The Ports Industry members of PSS have general principles in mind:

- Ports are of vital importance to UK plc, developing some £17.9 billion in GDP for the economy as a whole, including £7.7bn inside the ports themselves. [1]

- there is a professional commitment to thriving safely, so ports industry does not want to see a reduction of standards or expectation.

- Focus of the industry is a commitment to safety of the workforce and those affected by port operations.

- Goal Seeking (rather than Prescriptive ) legislation is supported – to help high quality businesses raise standards.

We would appreciate your COMMENTS BY Close of Play 27 JULY 2011, to enable us to meet the final cutoff of 29 July 2011.

Any queries please contact Peter Hanley on 0207 260 1792 or Peter@portskillsandsafety.co.uk

Footnote

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[1] “The Contribution of ports in the UK March 2009” – Oxford Economics