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LATEST NEWS & EVENTS Employers 'must still check health and safety consultants'  It is still up to businesses to identify suitable candidates when drafting in health and safety consultants, it has been claimed. As part of plans to reduce the workplace compensation claim rate, the government unveiled a new Occupational Safety and Health Consultants Register (OSHCR), a database of highly-qualified health and safety experts. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) said the government hopes the database will enable employers to identify competent consultants more easily. Roger Bibbings, an occupational safety adviser at the charity, explained that many experts on the register will have specialist rather than general, transferrable expertise. "Employers will still [need] to check to see that consultants who they shortlist from the register as part of their procurement are indeed suitable for the work that needs be done," he added. The database was one of several reforms to way the government approaches health and safety. In addition to fewer routine inspections, there will be a review of all aspects of workplace safety laws. Posted by Paul Stevens 
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