Information I requested from the HSE Fee for Intervention (FFI) team has revealed that the total value of FFI invoices issued in the construction sector has increased by over a quarter (26%) during the last 12 months of recorded data. Up to March 2016.

Construction sector FFI invoice total value has increased from £2.5m to £4.2 in the last three years and the average invoice value has risen from £366 to £604.

During the same period the number of enforcement notices issued in the construction sector has fallen from 3617 annually to 2783.

Is FFI now being used as a 'cash cow' and notices of contravention replacing formal notices?? What is your experience?

Ali - a material breach can attract either a notice of contravention letter or an enforcement notice. HSE inspector just needs to be a bit more certain about evidence for the latter although both are based on inspector opinion at the time.