http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2010/10/lord-young-admits-that-manyhealth-and-safety-scare-stories-are-hysteria/
Financial Times [UK]
15 October 2010
Westminster Blog
Lord Young admits that many “health and safety” scare stories are “hysteria”
by Jim Pickard
In December 2009 David Cameron made a speech in which he promised to reduce the burden of health and safety. His most heart-rending example was that of a small boy who drowned while fishing for tadpoles. As Cameron told his audience:
What’s more, the fear of transgressing all these rules causes
people to stand aside when others need help.
This was most tragically illustrated in Wigan two years ago,
when a ten year old drowned in a pond, having rescued his
young sister, because officers were told not to intervene as they
hadn’t undertaken their ‘water rescue’ health and safety training.
But was it a true story?
Cameron commissioned former Tory minister Lord Young to write a report on health and safety, which was published today. [...]
Lord Young even helpfully provided some examples of nonsense stories which had made it into folklore: One of them, curiously, was the pond story cited by Mr Cameron last year. [...]
http://www.number10.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/402906_CommonSense_acc.pdf
HM Government, October 2010
Common Sense and Common Safety
A report by Lord Young of Graffham to the Prime Minister following a Whitehall-wide review of the operation of health and safety laws and the growth of the compensation culture
[See Annex D: Behind the myth: the truth behind health and safety hysteria in the media, pp. 49-50.]
Financial Times [UK]
15 October 2010
Westminster Blog
Lord Young admits that many “health and safety” scare stories are “hysteria”
by Jim Pickard
In December 2009 David Cameron made a speech in which he promised to reduce the burden of health and safety. His most heart-rending example was that of a small boy who drowned while fishing for tadpoles. As Cameron told his audience:
What’s more, the fear of transgressing all these rules causes
people to stand aside when others need help.
This was most tragically illustrated in Wigan two years ago,
when a ten year old drowned in a pond, having rescued his
young sister, because officers were told not to intervene as they
hadn’t undertaken their ‘water rescue’ health and safety training.
But was it a true story?
Cameron commissioned former Tory minister Lord Young to write a report on health and safety, which was published today. [...]
Lord Young even helpfully provided some examples of nonsense stories which had made it into folklore: One of them, curiously, was the pond story cited by Mr Cameron last year. [...]
http://www.number10.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/402906_CommonSense_acc.pdf
HM Government, October 2010
Common Sense and Common Safety
A report by Lord Young of Graffham to the Prime Minister following a Whitehall-wide review of the operation of health and safety laws and the growth of the compensation culture
[See Annex D: Behind the myth: the truth behind health and safety hysteria in the media, pp. 49-50.]
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