<p>The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has been proactively engaged with duty holders over the last five years to ensure that they have effective management of Safety and Environment Critical Element (SECE) maintenance and inspection backlogs.</p><p> </p><p>In 2022 HSE wrote to 43 duty holders operating 193 production installations requiring them to provide details of SECE maintenance backlogs and the action proposed by the duty holder to manage the backlog. It is for the duty holder to identify the risk and allocate a budget and staffing levels proportionate to the risk, therefore HSE does not hold any data on the budgets and staffing levels of duty holders.</p><p> </p><p>Where HSE interventions identify concerns with the duty holder’s arrangements, enforcement action is taken in line with HSE’s Enforcement Management Model.</p>