To ask why does the Daily Mail use the term elf n safety?

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Is it an inside joke I'm not in on or something?

I first heard people start saying this about a year ago, assumed it was meant to be an amusing play on words. Now the Mail has started using it, everyone else must stop immediately.

Because people who write for the DM are dicks.

It's a way of pretending that health and safety (aka keeping people safe) is not important / is ridiculous.

Exactly what noblegiraffe said

The DM has been using that phrase for years and years. It was coined over the ludicrous press stories where a Head teach bans conkers or makes pupils wear eye goggles under the guise of H&S guideline, where no such diktat has been issued

What every other learned person on here has already said......the sad thing is that the paper itself seems to assume that the rest of us are entirely stupid and therefore can't see what they are doing or will believe that everything they write is truthful. Twonks.

They like to make stuff up because they, along with the Tories, want regulations to be loosened despite the fact that on average 3 people are killed at work each week. Clearly by their use of 'elf and safety' they think this is funny.

They are twats.

Because they think that people's safety are assured by elfs.

'cos they think they're funny.

Because they are mocking the lower-class jobsworth types who use 'Health and Safety' as an excuse for everything, without using any common sense regarding each situation. Because the working classes have no common sense. They are thick as pig shit and all drop their haitches. And are probably immigrants. Fat immigrants. Falsely claiming benefits. With 864 children from different fathers. And ASBOs. Or some such drivel, I don't know, just make up a reason for it, the DM do.

It's a way of pretending that health and safety (aka keeping people safe) is not important / is ridiculous.

To be fair, sometimes it is ridiculous.

Half the ridiculous ones aren't even true!

Ridiculous ones arise from people who have no idea about H&S applying things that are not relevant to their situation. And from ridiculous insurance requirements.
Proper H&S prevents deaths, accidents and illnesses. It really does. And many many employers flout requirements in disgusting ways every day.

Proper H&S prevents deaths, accidents and illnesses

Yes, of course it does. Like many things though, there are extremes that go either side of what is reasonable and sensible.

Such as?

Of FFS.

You're right. H&S is always only sensible and reasonable and never ever EVER goes to an extreme of stupidity or dangerousness

pseudo are you querying whether legislation prevents deaths and accidents?

Well I was hoping you'd give me a ridiculous DM myth and I could debunk it :o

No you're not. Sorry
soup are you?

No wish, I'm an EHO and enforce it! Why would I query it?

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HSE myth busting

H&S legislation has made a positive change in a local factory where a worker fell backwards off a walkway with (at the time) no railings & he got a head injury.
When H&S came in they got railings.

I can think of many other positive examples where Health & Safety legislation has made a difference.