Revocation of the Hemp Spinning & Weaving Regulations 1907. But that's a given.

Made it illegal for a coal mine to allow a slag heap to fall on a school. Look up Aberfan on Wikipedia. The amazing thing was at the time (1966) there was no duty on an employer to ensure the Health and Safety of non-employees affected by their undertaking. This is why we have section 3 of the Health and Safety at Work Act. Interestingly the Chairman of the Coal Board was Lord Robens; the same Lord Robens who’s report is the basis of our current much maligned H&S laws.

apparently the Romans did not do all the roads; it is now though by many experts that the Romans followed older Celt roads that were already in place and were very good in many areas!

Forgive me if I am wrong, didn't the Romans have something to do with the Zebra Crossing, and DSE Regs??

ACOP on the safe use of gladiators anyone

making it worse how could it be worse............ Lol Phil

So apart from: • Reducing workplace fatalities; • Ending child labour; • General improvements in working conditions and welfare; • Making it illegal for employers to kill and maim their employees and others in pursuit of profit; • A simplification in the regulatory regime since 1974; • The establishment of regulatory agencies to enforce the above; • Provision of tons of guidance and ACOP’s to make the employers job easier; • Preventing disease; • prolonging life; • promoting health; • the promotion and maintenance of the highest degree of physical, mental and social well-being of workers in all occupations; • the prevention amongst workers of departures from health caused by their working conditions; • the protection of workers in their employment from risks resulting from factors adverse to health; and • the placing and maintenance of the worker in an occupational environment adapted to his physiological and psychological capabilities. What has health and safety ever done for us?

Well in that case..... I'll have two flat ones and a packet of gravel please

Fantastic wizzpete! Thats the stuff!

you mean apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order ... what have the Romans ever done for us?