Review Of HSE Temple Report

The new edition of the Temple Report, a three-yearly independent review of the function, form and governance of the Health and Safety Executive ('HSE'), was published in January 2014 and contains helpful and interesting analysis of the functions and effectiveness of the HSE.

The Report was split in two stages; Stage One considered whether the functions of the HSE remained necessary and whether these functions were delivered effectively and efficiently while Stage Two went on to consider whether adequate control and governance arrangements were in place.

Some of the key recommendations that came out of the Report include:

Removing the link between fines and funding in relation to the FFI scheme, or showing that the benefits outweigh the detrimental effects, failing which FFI should be phased out. Working out and making publically available ways to measure the cost effectiveness of the HSE to enable more effective comparisons of performance with other organisations. Continuing to improve the HSE's performance on the length of time taken to complete investigations, with the aim of 95% of non-fatal accident investigations to be completed within 12 months of the accident. Continuing to work to complete Professor Lofstedt's...