These Regulations determine whether the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) or the Local Authority (LA) inspectors are responsible for enforcing health and safety legislation. The legislation states that the HSE is responsible for all notifiable construction design and management (CDM) work and all the requirements of CDM.
Furthermore, the legislation states that the HSE is the enforcing authority for minor construction work in all premises for which the local authority is the enforcing authority. Local Authorities are the enforcing authority for construction work carried out certain persons who either work on the premises or if they do not, still fall within the legislation's requirements because certain aspects of the work being carried out.
