E.On fined £3m for losing a few light bulbs!! They should have put them in a container and dropped it on an employee - it would have only cost them a few thousand. Perhaps Ofgem should be running our H&S system; they seem to have more power. The world's gone mad.

For others like myself who knew nothing of the background to this thread when it appeared, have a look at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23241370 I tend to concur with Ian A-H's concluding comment: The level of the fine in this matter seems grossly disproportionate considering that nobody was harmed by the fact that the company didn't send out its full quota of energy saving light bulbs. As an aside, over the past decade I received some 30 free energy saving light bulbs at home from various sources. Though I used some, most of them lurked unused on a shelf in my garage until I took them to work about 2 years ago and gave them away to colleagues. Perhaps I could claim 'brownie points' from Ofgem for redistributing the unused bulbs! Such bulbs are fine for some applications, but have disadvantages, including slow warm up time, which render them unsuitable for other purposes. Also, they last a very long time, so no more than a few need to be kept as spares!

£3 million is presumably considered peanuts. See: http://www.telegraph.co....with-EU-seal-upheld.html We may be sailing close to AUGs here.

Personally, I can't stand the sickly glow that energy saving bulbs put out, give me clean tungsten lights every time, but then you can't get them now.

Simply that only "little people" get injured & killed at work