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This attitude, this whole health and safety, human rights act culture, has infected every part of our life. If you’re a police officer you now cannot pursue an armed criminal without first filling out a risk assessment form. Teachers can’t put a plaster on a child’s grazed knee without calling a first aid officer
David Cameron, a couple of weeks ago...
Which 'elf and safety story do you hear the most?
Poll options taken from the HSE Myth of the Month website.
http://www.hse.gov.uk/myth/
Poll Results
| Option | Votes |
| Egg boxes banned in craft lessons | 1 |
| Even Mr Punch needs a risk assessment | 1 |
| Kids must wear goggles to play conkers | 1 |
| Workers banned from putting up decorations | 0 |
| Children were banned from riding at a donkey derby | 0 |
| Health and safety laws ban bonfires | 0 |
| Electrical testing | 0 |
| Hard hats for trapeze artists | 0 |
| Long and complex risk assessments | 0 |
| Safety Experts resolve to make people miserable | 0 |
| Every possible risk needs a safety sign | 0 |
| Toy 'weapons' in a play had to be locked-up | 0 |
| If a pupil is hurt, the teacher is likely to be sued | 0 |
| Health and safety laws banned hanging baskets | 0 |
| Health and safety laws banned poles in fire stations | 0 |
| All park benches must be replaced | 0 |
| Adults can't put plasters on children's cuts | 0 |
| HSE bans this, that and the other | 0 |
| HSE has banned stepladders | 0 |
― no amount of cajolery (Ned Trifle II), Sunday, 19 October 2008 20:01 (seventeen years ago)
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