Note: This article is excerpted from the August 24, 2011 edition of “Safety and Health Practitioner,” the official magazine of the UK-based Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, with 34,000 members, making IOSH the largest safety and health organization in the world. It was founded in 1945. www.iosh.co.uk
An epidemic of excuses wrongly citing health and safety is needlessly curtailing people’s personal freedoms, U.K. Employment Minister Chris Grayling announced on August 24.