Originally Posted by BA0197

Because it is Health and Safety that enables people to sue, to a large extent. Health and Safety, for the VAST majority of circumstances, is a waste of time, meaningless and prohibitive. In no other country do people have to go through the palava of filling out needless "risk assesment forms" with the intention of somehow predicting what might possibly go wrong. I make a habit of putting "sudden earthquake" on all of my forms. It's a joke and a farce.