Hi Calum, from cold and wet blighty. The notion has been mooted before and indeed there have been some health and safety fly-on-the-wall type programmes in recent times. However, they tend to depict 'elf and safety in the negative and do nothing to promote the good work that is done by many practitioners. Unfortunately the media prefer to present our industry with contempt, until that is, a serious incident occurs and then it is all health and safety goodness. I think we have to accept for the time being that health and safety will not be portrayed in a positive manner by the media. In the meantime there are initiatives which industry organisations, government agencies and individuals can champion to improve the practical side, as well as the image of health and safety. I believe these institutions could do much more to promote sensible health and safety, but they constrained by potential legal liabilities, hence they generally prefer to promote overly zealous practices; which in turn leads to a risk averse culture. What is really needed to turn the tide back to sensible health and safety and a modicum of respect, is some sort of working party to examine different aspects of the industry. These would include regulation, claims, insurance, risk management, judiciary, penalties, training and so on. Each of which influence the other and therefore looking at them in isolation, or a snap shot, like Lord Yong's recent report will do no good at all. Indeed, without a structured approach more harm is just as likely to be the end result. Ray

I've come to the conclusion all journalists & tv folks suffer from a massive inferiority complex. This results in them ALWAYS trying to belittle their subjects. I'd sooner stick red hot needles into my eyeballs than have anything to do with any of them. Never ever talk to the press they will always misquote what you say to hype up reality