Health and Safety Executive: Inspections

(asked on 12th March 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information on (a) labour rights and (b) access to advice and remedy is routinely provided to workers who (i) file a complaint with and (ii) are encountered during inspections conducted by the Health and Safety Executive.


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Sarah Newton
This question was answered on 20th March 2018

The Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE’s) website contains the relevant information for workers who wish to file a complaint about their workplace and can be found at the ‘Report a workplace problem’ page. This page contains a link to information specifically for Whistleblowers. They will also find an explanation of what HSE will do when their concerns are received.

The HSE website also provides comprehensive free guidance on all aspects of workplace health and safety, specific webpages to support workers and translations of information on basic health and safety protections in 16 languages.

During health and safety inspections, HSE inspectors routinely make direct contact with workers to provide them with the opportunity to raise health and safety concerns, provide advice and support relevant to that workplace, and agree how the inspector will provide workers with relevant information about the inspection.

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