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jay  
#1 Posted : 28 October 2010 13:49:05(UTC)
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jay

Although very few Private member's bills make it to statute, it appears that there is political will to implement Lord Young's proposals it via legislation in the form of private members bills. Whether that is achievable in context of GB's membership of the European Union and a signatory to various treaties that requires GB to transpose EU directives into local legislation is another matter! The summary is:- Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulation Bill -- a Bill to reduce the duties on employers to report matters under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995. Low Hazard Workplaces (Risk Assessment Exemption) Bill --a Bill to exempt employers from the requirement to produce a written risk assessment in respect of low hazard workplaces and the premises of those working from their own home with low hazard equipment. Self-employment (Risk Assessment Exemption) Bill --a Bill to exempt self-employed persons engaged in low hazard activity from the requirement to produce a written risk assessment. Health and Safety Consultants (Qualifications) Bill --a Bill to introduce qualification requirements for health and safety consultants; to provide accreditation for such consultants; and for connected purposes. Activity Centres (Young Persons' Safety) (Amendment) Bill --a Bill to abolish the Adventure Activities Licensing Authority; and for connected purposes. Health and Safety at Work (Amendment) Bill --a Bill to amend the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 in respect of systems of risk assessment; to make provision for separate requirements for play, leisure and work-based activities; to introduce simplified risk assessments for schools; and for connected purposes. Compensation (Limitation) Bill --a Bill to prevent conditional fee agreement success fees and after the event insurance premiums being recoverable from the losing party in civil litigation; to facilitate damages-based agreements for contingency fees in respect of successful litigants; and for connected purposes. Local Government Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill -- a Bill to extend the powers of the Local Government Ombudsman to provide redress against local authorities which unreasonably ban events on the grounds of health and safety. http://www.publications..../debtext/101021-0001.htm http://www.publications..../debtext/101021-0002.htm
jwk  
#2 Posted : 28 October 2010 14:31:45(UTC)
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jwk

Of course it could represent political will being expressed as Private Members' Bills, on the other hand it could reflect the Governments lack of enthusiasm for measures promoting semantically challenged (low hazard?) principles of little value. There has been an opinion expressed on the Members forum that the whole Young report may be allowed to die a death; the fact that the government has not seen fit to award it protected government time and has instead chosen to make it prey to the vagaries of the private members ballot may just indicate that the report, while not dead, is on it's way to casualty with blues and twos, John
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