The new Labour administration has reiterated its plans to legislate on a broad range of employment laws that have implications for OSH in its first 100 days in power, after winning a landslide victory in the UK's General Election.
Ian Manners, Partner at Ashfords LLP, has identified Building Safety assurance as one of the items that maybe effected.
Labour state they will take ‘decisive action’ to improve building safety, including through regulation, to ensure we never again see a repeat of the Grenfell fire. It remains to be seen whether this will take the form of further fire safety and building safety regulation, or just seeks to legislate to determine liability for building safety standards/improvements, in order to protect leaseholders. The HSE is the building safety regulator and it will be during the next government that we will see that regulator’s role in action. The ongoing Grenfell Inquiry is set to publish its final report in the first months of the new government and we will also see whether criminal enforcement action will follow on after the work of the Inquiry has concluded.
Source – iosh magazine
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