to think that some health and safety advice is just silly...

[MammytoM]

Bought DS a pop up ball pit and the instructions say 'do not attempt to hide in this product in a thunderstorm'! Who on earth would try to hide in a shallow fabric collapsible ball pit during a thunder storm?! Anyone else experienced health and safety gone mad?

Common sense has now gone out the window! Apparently no-one has any?!

Health and safety has gone mad! . Some of the so called advice is so funny it can't be taken seriously

Dont know on radio or TV but saw something that said alot of the time - companies who use h&S sholdnt and we must challange it.

Hackmum, as I understand it, (and I have done precisely no research into this) the chemicals used to make clothes fire retardant are safe, but not something you would necessarily want to be exposed to long term if there was no need. So in a house with no sources of flame, why put a child into flame retardant clothes overnight?

ami you know that risk assessmenss aren't mentioned in hasawa,didnt you? It's the management if health and safety at work regs 1999. Genius because the dumb ass you challenge often won't even know that. I love challenging dumb risk assessments. Especially when ther can't actually explain howor why their dumb idea will make things safer.

Thanks, I did know it was the management regs.

collaborate I suspect the HSE are a bit too busy dealing with health & safety to have much time to advise on snow closures. Real health & safety that is.

And yes the HSE have a challenge panel where they will debunk the many myths.

I'm sure everyone can come up with some anecdotal "evidence" of health and safety gone mad, but most of it is shite and is attributable to something else like insurance or fear of litigation.

I work for a county council and they say that we're not allowed to put up Christmas decorations in the office 'for health and safety reasons'. Also when my colleagues and I asked for a bookcase to put our reference books on we were told that it was against the council's policy to provide bookcases.

Health and safety can be as pathetic as it is useful; the former is usually someone trying to cover their own backside, the latter generally comes from the HSE.

H&S is a huge part of my job, it's very, very necessary (especially wrt pregnant staff or staff with special needs) but the paperwork is a nightmare.

Not health and safety but one that makes me laugh.

In the small print at the bottom of the Kinder Egg advert it says "Warning: toy inside"

For you melpomene:

www.hse.gov.uk/myth/nov07.htm

And any takeaway coffee/tea cup 'warning contents may be hot'. Well yeah, I hope so. I think that was because someone in America sued when they burnt their tongue.

However, H&S dept in my office had to put a notice 'Warning boiling water' on the urn - because some idiot scalded themselves trying to wash their hands under the tap

Katla, it was a wee bit more than burning their tongue. Facts of the case here

Haha these are great. Katia, I think she burnt her flange driving with a cup of coffee between her legs. WTF was she thinking?!!!!!

I stand corrected, not driving but it was her flange!!