A bit of surfing recently steered me in the direction of the UK Health and Safety website. Far from existing in some remote ivory tower, the Health and Safety Executive actually has a sense of humour and maintains on its website a list of current Health and Safety myths. I was rather delighted to discover that the ‘Safety Elves’ do really aim to be simple and straightforward rather than just silly, which is the image the popular press tries to convey of them.
Cath Janes, writing in the Guardian has a good piece on the subject of Health and Safety, reminding us that it really is about simple common sense and forethought rather than compliance with arcane rules.
Here is another link, to a small safety company in Norfolk that appears to adopt a similar philsophy.
