When Health and Safety really matters…
18th September 2006 by Tim Kitchin
Jenny McCartney of the UK’s Daily Telegraph has drawn attention to the chasm emerging between ‘trivial’ health and safety concerns, and the ‘profound’ safety issues prevailing in developing countries, or when individuals are effectively compelled to take inappropriate risks.
Commenting on Manchester City Council’s decision to ban a protest march on health and safety grounds, The Telegraph’s commentator points out that:
‘We can safely assume that health and safety concerns were rather thin on the hellish ground upon which their sons and husbands died; indeed, they were particularly lacking in the case of Sergeant Steven Roberts, who was killed after being ordered to lend his body armour to another soldier, and whose widow Samantha was among those wishing to protest.’
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