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Get comprehensive details on HSE's Fee for Intervention scheme, covering material breaches, invoicing procedures, and scope exclusions. Stay informed and ensure compliance with this crucial regulation in health and safety law.
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Fee for Intervention:An Update Gavin Bye
Fee for Intervention • Implementation October 2012 • Compliant businesses will not pay a fee • Recovery of costs for material breach • Current cost £124 per hour • Prosecution costs sought through the courts • Invoicing every two months with 30 days to pay • Queries and disputes process
Material breach “A material breach is when, in the opinion of the HSE inspector, there has been a contravention of health and safety law that requires them to notify the dutyholder, in writing, of that opinion ”
Scope - exclusions • Existing permissioning regimes • Local Authorities • Self-employed dutyholders (putting only themselves at risk) • Individuals • Non-Health and Safety at Work Act legislation
Process • When an Inspector identifies a material breach they must write to the duty-holder • Specifying the provision or provisions to which the Inspector’s opinion relates • Giving particulars of the reasons for that opinion • Informing them that fee for intervention is payable
Construction Division Priorities • Asbestos licensing • HSE Investigation Procedures • Construction Programme • Small Sites • Refurbishment • Major Projects/Large Contractors • Inspection priorities
Challenges • Multiple duty holders • Overlapping CDM duties • Fire • Asbestos Licensing • CDM “Person in Control” • Nuclear new build
Proactive Work • Identifying the duty holders • Large sites • Procurement models • Material breaches by site duty holders only • “Tracking back” • Early Intervention • Paperwork - Reverse letters
Tracking back • “Track back” reveals off-site CDM Duty holder has some responsibility for site material breach • “Track back” reveals off-site CDM Duty holder has sole responsibility for site material breach • “Track back” reveals off-site CDM Duty holder has no responsibility for site material breach
Investigations • Identifying all the duty holders • Allocating time • Lines of inquiry • Decision making • Court proceedings
Investigations – Multiple Duty Holders • Initial site time determining immediate causes • Further analysis of factual evidence relating to the immediate causes • Further lines of inquiry – one duty holder • Further lines of inquiry - two or more duty holders
Other issues • Fire legislation • Asbestos • CDM Regulation 25 • Nuclear new Build