The HSE warns of fake mailshot 03 February 2005
Companies and other organisations are urged by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to ignore mailshots or emails they receive from two firms purporting to regulate health and safety legislation.
The two firms in question are the Health and Safety Registration Enforcement Division (HSRED) based in West Yorkshire and the Health and Safety Enforcement Agency (HSEA). The first of the two have written to companies asking businesses to pay up £199 to £249 to ensure they are complying with the law. The second company, using a Bradford address, previously tried to get £125 for a health and safety compliance pack and is sending out similar letters again.
The advice from the HSE is to ignore any literature that comes from these or other companies posing to be connected to the HSE. The HSE never writes indiscriminately to firms seeking advance payment for services which it has not provided.
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