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.
You are claiming that the UK is the only country in the world to enforce risk assessments?
Though I constantly hear stories from those frothing at the mouth about "health and safety gone mad!!!!!!!" of companies being sued for donating out of date food to the needy, I've yet to find a single actual example of that. Granted my brief Google search is hardly conclusive though, so I'm all ears if anyone can demonstrate it?
EDIT: Looking a bit further, I found a case of Tesco selling 5 month out of date baby milk to an unwitting customer whose baby then became ill. If they weren't even sued for that, are they really going to be sued for giving specifically marked out of date potatoes to a homeless charity for free?
Originally Posted by
BA0197
There are a minority of cases that warrant proper procedures- but I may remind you this is not the point of health and safety. Having to predict the future to gauge the possibility of something going wrong is not beneficial to my safety.
Your inability to predict the future is the exact reason for having such forms in the first place...