{"id":1661,"date":"2009-12-05T15:32:08","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T14:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2009-12-05T15:32:08","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T14:32:08","slug":"all-this-elfansafety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1661","title":{"rendered":"All this &#8220;elfansafety&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent five years as the national health &#038; safety officer of a major British trade union, so I become very concerned when I hear the media alleging that we&#8217;ve become health &#038; safety mad (as in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1225144\/Health-safety-killjoys-ban-bonfire--thousands-watch-virtual-giant-TV-screen.html\">this story<\/a> from the &#8220;Daily Mail&#8221;) and some politicians insisting that expenditure of health &#038; safety should be cut (as in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservatives.com\/News\/News_stories\/2009\/11\/~\/link.aspx?_id=04C94B91D79740FCBF93AB73F55D26D0&#038;_z=z\">this speech<\/a> by David Cameron).<br \/>\nOften the media and the politicians will justify their argument with a case which is apparently an over-zealous application of safety rules or precautions &#8211; except that often these cases are simply apocryphal and totally untrue.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s got so bad that the Health and Safety Executive collates and publishes on its web site all these myths &#8211; see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hse.gov.uk\/myth\/index.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent five years as the national health &#038; safety officer of a major British trade union, so I become very concerned when I hear the media alleging that we&#8217;ve become health &#038; safety mad (as in this story from the &#8220;Daily Mail&#8221;) and some politicians insisting that expenditure of health &#038; safety should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}