Health and Safety Executive's,

are finally getting the message,

employment minister Chris Grayling, whose brief covers the issue, said: ‘we have seen an epidemic of excuses wrongly citing health and safety to prevent pretty harmless things with only very minor risks attached, these regulations are intended to save lives, not stop them,' I hope the people that enforced the 10 top barmy rules in the box above actually take note, though I doubt it as just this summer Colchester Council told Charlotte Cubitt, 85, staff could not take her TV to be recycled as they might hurt themselves, the list goes on, and on, and on.


 and I missed this one, for 15 years children have been playing with donated milk crates, with out a single fatality, or injury of any kind, but Health & Safety fears have made the dairy that donated them all that time ago to snatch then back, despite a Health & Safety assessment by foundation stage leader Anne Bardsley, 'they have got no right to make judgements of health and safety on my risk management, it is absolutely outrageous, the children absolutely loved them,' she said, but an unrepentant Dairy Crest stated 'it is not Dairy Crest's policy to provide crates for anything other than their sole purpose - which is to transport milk bottles, there are lots of ways in which they could be misused and they could break, and it is very sharp plastic if they do,'




wait a moment I have a great idea here, these bits of plastic have survived 15 years of abuse by the worlds toughest consumers - kids, now for any go ahead plastics manufacturer here is an idea, make a product similar to a milk crate and sell it to schools, a range of say 5 colours, I am guessing they would not be too expensive, the kids could imagine them to be anything they liked, the bonus being the 'toys' could last a life time of abuse and could carry placement adds!