you mean the 258 page guidance document for complying with CRC for example!!!

Good to see a similar review there. Why isn't environmental legislation given the same rough ride in political circles as H&S? Because it doesn't feature in the Daily Wail and isn't therefore seen as an cheap and easy way of winning over the man on the street!

I notice that the WorkplaceLaw link makes mention of the Environment Agency adopting more of a "light touch" approach to enforcement...! Like what they have been doing with Civil Sanctions ..??? Euros 3.3million http://www.freshfields.c...2/apr12/32963.pdf#page=4 And there have been c30 or so much more mundane "recoveries" of a few tens of thousands of £s. Phil

Neither 'red tape' nor 'health and safety' are the exclusive butts of sick humour on the part of the gutter press. Since they got a foothold in the market, they've fostered psychological sickness with inane pseudo-humour, as illustrated by yesterday's headlines in The Sun about Roy Hodgson's lisp, which actually appears to very seldom hinder effective communication by him. Expansion in employment law, of which health and safety laws and regs are a relatively small part, is what generations of employee and worker representatives, in Parliament and beyond, have campaigned for since the nineteenth century. Mocking it can be recognised as just one kind of political and social effort to reduce personal rights.

And if they are enacted from EU legislation, they are unalterable without negotiation. So they will have to check thro' EU law to identify the parts that are untouchable. Environment. What we really need is some sorting-out of the agency charged with the environment, or preferably closing it. Contractors paid by time and not contract. Excessive staff, doing little because the agency hires outside... Close the EA and then worry about H&S.

They will not be cutting the red tape that allows such types to claim additional expenses nor to get high fees for sitting on various boards!