Smarter Regulation Sandbox (SRS) Summary of Use Cases 

Discovering Safety (a programme of work led by Great Britain’s Health and Safety Executive, HSE) collaborated with Safetytech Accelerator to deliver the Smarter Regulation Sandbox (SRS). The Sandbox fostered collaboration between regulators, industry stakeholders, and technology companies to improve workplace safety by harnessing the full potential of the digitalisation of regulations to reduce the burden of regulation and therefore accelerate compliance.  

While regulation is currently available online, not all are ‘machine readable’, while regulatory data is only available ad-hoc.  SRS explored 5 use cases for how full digitalisation of these digital assets can be used by the industry to make health and safety regulatory information more accessible to organisations. Thereby, accelerating compliance, improving efficiency and productivity and reducing regulatory burdens on industry, whilst supporting innovators to bring emerging digital products to market.

 The project aimed to reveal how emerging technologies can impact the way organisations engage with regulation and guidance by providing:  

• Industry with increased assurance, confidence, and clarity on compliance   
• Regulators with a pro-innovation environment to trial smarter interventions   
• Tech companies with the opportunity to capture and use smarter regulatory information   

Each use case was a collaborative investigation between a technology provider, industrial partner and sector experts from HSE.  

The SRS builds on the success of the world’s first, award-winning, Industrial Safetytech Regulatory Sandbox which concluded in September 2023 and proved an effective way to share expert knowledge from research in a collaborative and innovative environment using a Sandbox approach.  

This project has been made possible through funding won from the Knowledge Asset Grant Fund (KAGF), run by the Government Office for Technology Transfer (GOTT) and funded by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT).  

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