Health and Safety Executive
(asked on 20th May 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many workplace spot checks the Heath and Safety Executive has carried out in each of the last six months.
The numbers of workplace spot checks the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has carried out in each of the last six months is in the table below:
Year | Month | No. of Proactive Inspections |
2019 | Dec | 624 |
2020 | Jan | 898 |
2020 | Feb | 1041 |
2020 | Mar | 587 |
2020 | Apr | 78 |
2020 | 1st – 20th May | 62 |
The above data was extracted from HSE’s operational database on 21st May 2020 and is subject to change e.g. the administrative process of recording the information in the database can take up to 10 days.
In March, HSE temporarily suspended proactive visits to sites to allow social distancing measures to be put in place to protect visiting staff. It has since developed plans for resuming proactive site inspections.
The above data excludes investigations of workplace concerns including those relating to COVID-19, where checks have been made to ensure that measures have been put in place to comply with the law.