Bans on yo-yos in playgrounds, knives in kitchens and kettles in offices have all been wrongly blamed on workplace safety laws this year, a new report...
Akin to the phrases :I'm not racist, but" and "It's only a bit of banter", the adage "health and safety gone mad" is the linguistic equivalent of a Bernard Manning video; lazy, ill-informed and inflammatory.
Globally about 2 million people die annually in work related deaths and recent statistics from the HSE show that UK workplace deaths in the first half of 2011 have increased by 20% - an alarming statistic that employers should take seriously.