Sheffield pensioners have been sent ‘threatening’ letters telling them their mobility scooters will be taken away from them if they continue to park them beneath the stairs in their flats because they pose a health and safety hazard, reports the Sheffield Star.
A 14th-century village church in Cottingham, Yorkshire, has had to pay £500 to erect scaffolding to change the lightbulbs in its 30ft-high roof because of concerns over health and safety, which also prohibit the use of candles.
A Bedford family’s doormat has been branded a health and safety hazard by a housing association, which plastered it in warning tape and a sign reading ‘move it or lose it’.
Carnival organisers in the Lake District banned a wet sponge-throwing event on health and safety grounds, saying the sponges might get dirty and someone could end up with grit in their eye.
Three seaside funfairs have banned visitors using their bumper-car rides from, well, bumping into one another, insisting that they drive around the track carefully and sedately instead.
More than half of education staff believe there is a growing trend towards risk aversion in schools, with school trips and traditional playground games falling victim to the ‘play-safe culture’.
A football club used “recently tightened health and safety laws” as an excuse to ban a disabled sports photographer from doing his job at the side of the pitch during a League One match recently.
The HSE has pre-empted the possibility that 'jobsworths' could cite health and safety as an excuse for banning community celebration-plans for the forthcoming marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
