OMNIBUS SURVEY RESEARCH TO IMPROVE IMPACT ASSESSMENT ASSUMPTIONS

The Health and Safety Executive wishes to improve the evidence base for its impact assessment work, by increasing its understanding of: • the routes through which dutyholders become familiar with changes in legislation, • the proportion of businesses which use each route and • the time it takes for different types of business to achieve familiarisation with regulatory change. Familiarisation costs are often the most significant costs to business of regulatory change and this is an area where the evidence is c...