The European Union’s OSH strategic framework, which runs from 2014 until 2020, prioritises embedding and simplifying existing regulations rather than introducing fresh ones, so the other major source of new UK safety regulation has also slowed to a trickle.Safety and health practitioners may be relieved that they have been left alone – except for the occasional blip such as the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 – since each new statute makes more work for them.