Hummmmm.... neck out and all that.[/QUOTE
No need to stick your neck out i'm sure we all appreciate the need for independent safety inspections or some would still be using kids to clean chimneys , i think the jist of the thread is H&S has strayed deep into the realms that should be governed by common sense . Exploited perhaps into a lucrative industry in itself creating thousands of jobs that achieve nothing .
Was it Higgy said he had to get tickets to drive a spoon or tie his shoes laces , I bet non of the inspectors ever did any of the stuff they test for a living so basically they learned in a classroom how to teach granny how to suck eggs
Nothing that habitually maims and kills commercial fishermen , and statistics show its a dangerous job , gets so much as a glance from the safety elf - because he doesn't know how it works or what its for but woe betide should a sticker be missing or a bulb blown