SI 2018/XXXX The Health and Safety (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (DRAFT) (link)
These draft regulations have recently been made available on the Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP’s) web page.
These regulations ensure that EU derived health and safety protections will continue to be available in domestic law after the UK has left the EU. The regulations amended are detailed in Section 6 and 7 the associated explanatory memorandum. These Regulations do not make any policy changes beyond the intent of ensuring continued operability of the relevant legislation.
The amended regulations include:
– The Offshore Installations and Pipeline Works (Management and Administration) Regulations 1995
– The Offshore Installations (Prevention of Fire and Explosion, and Emergency Response) Regulations 1995
– The Borehole Sites and Operations Regulations 1995
– The Health and Safety (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulations 1996
– The Offshore Installations and Wells (Design and Construction, etc.) Regulations 1996
– The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002
– The Control of Artificial Optical Radiation at Work Regulations 2010
– The Offshore Installations (Offshore Safety Directive) (Safety Case etc.) Regulations 2015
– The Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations 2015
– The Ionising Radiations Regulations 2017.
Source: DWP.