health and safety

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What Have We Come To?

February 19, 2024 Longrider 6

Stories like this crop up from time to time. A couple was forced to rescue a trapped driving instructor from 4ft of floodwater while firefighters […]

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A Guarded Response

July 17, 2019 Longrider 12

To this story. A train company has been fined £1 million for breaching health and safety duties after a passenger was killed leaning out of a […]

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Oh, FFS!

August 15, 2018 Longrider 4

Bye bye Arkwight. They were acting on a complaint that the goods kept outside on the pavement were a health and safety risk. Seriously? Health […]

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Precisely

August 25, 2014 Longrider 9

Quite. Real health-and-safety laws exist to protect Britain’s workers, and not to be used as a smokescreen by jobsworths who have little knowledge of the […]

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A Spot of People Power

April 6, 2014 Longrider 4

The Sheffield half marathon was cancelled due to elfinsafety and Plod was more than happy to blockade the route to stop those pesky runners going […]