Health and Safety Policy Panel

The IET’s Health and Safety Policy Panel was set up to act as a focus for health and safety issues of relevance to the profession. The policy group is comprised of health and safety experts, practitioners and consultants from industry and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).

The objectives of the Health and Safety Panel include:

• Raising the awareness of current H&S issues.
• Formulating an informed position on current H&S issues for the IET.
• Disseminating information on H&S to the IET, its members and the public as appropriate.
• Ensuring that the views of the IET on H&S matters are made known to government, standards bodies and other relevant authorities.

To achieve these objectives, the panel co-ordinates the IET’s response to H&S related consultations, maintains and updates the popular health and safety briefing notes and liaises with other H&S organisations.

The group works with the other major engineering institutions on common H&S issues through the Inter-Institutional Panel on Health and Safety.  The chairman of the policy panel also represents the IET on the board of the Hazards Forum.  

• Health and Safety factfiles

Relevant submissions

• S890 - Proposed Amendments to (RIDDOR)
• S864 - ORR proposed changes to Health and Safety Enforcement Policy

If you are a member, and would like to input into the IET's policy work, please join the Health and Safety Policy Key.

To contact the Health and Safety Policy Panel please contact

Email: healthandsafety@theiet.org