Wednesday, July 04, 2007

HSE concedes risk assesment is about generating paperwork?

It did make me laugh earlier when I read the latest press release from the Health and Safety Executive. They're spending lots of money on a re-education campaign for us all in order to deal with "health and safety myths". Apparently, all the insane "health and safety gone mad" incidents over the past few years are mostly lies you see.

The press release has a ten point list of what "sensible risk-management" is. It also has a list of what "sensible risk-management" is not. According to point three of the latter list, sensible risk-management is not about "[g]enerating useless paperwork mountains." Did you spot it? They don't say it's not about generating paperwork mountains. They say it's not about generating "useless" ones. Class.

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