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Posted By David Bannister
BBC's business editor has posted a blog that has a link from their main news site:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blo...ereporters/robertpeston/
He is having a go at restrictive H&S regulations whilst what he is really moaning at is food safety regs. A couple of well-worded emails may put him right.
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Posted By bob safe
I agree with you David, this muppet is carping on about health & safety when it is clear that it is actually the food safety regulations.
We should all bombard his blog with comments!
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Posted By Diane Thomason
Careful though, because he's actually questioning the effect of regulations and other factors on Britain's economic health.
It's the old "businesses are being strangled by red tape" thing.
I don't think he cares much whether it's safety regs, food regs, environment regs, trade regs etc.
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Posted By bob safe
Glad to see that Mr Peston has admitted on his blog that he was refering to food safety regs rather than bashing health & safety!
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Posted By Tabs
Bob, I would prefer that he edits his original piece than add a footnote.
Reading some of the replies makes me despair!
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Posted By Merv Newman
For those who don't want to go to the link, it concerns an article on the need to use uragyan gut to make Haggis as it cannot be sourced from a country which has had a BSE outbreak.
Robert Peston did actually add a clarification at about 10.40 this morning saying that he was having a go at Food legislation not H&S at work.
This was after many of those who commented on his article jumped to the conclusion that he was attacking H&S.
Some of the comments were astonishing :
"Hard hats in the construction industry ? EU rubbish. The human head is a natural crash helmet"(from memory. Not an accurate quote)
Merv
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Posted By Jack
Irony bypass, Merv?
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Posted By John Murgatroyd
Is this the one ?
Hear hear.
Abolish these ludicrous laws!! We should be allowed to put iron filing in food if it keeps costs down! Saftey hats for builders? EU Claptrap. Heads are a natural safety helmets.
Whilst we're at it why don't we just put any old rubbish in sausages and sell them as 'Premium'! Oh... we already do that..
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Posted By Tabs
I enjoyed the thick irony, but what scares me are the responses from adults who seem to belong to the Dickensian Approach to Safety.
Imagine a TV programme actually on-side...
**wobbly screen effect**..
"Welcome to tonight's review of The World at Work. Later we see how risk assessment prevented 20,000 people being evacuated down wind of a chemical plant because the first stage of the assessment foretold of a valve failure after two years of operation. But first, let's look at how recycled tyres are being used to replace concrete in school playgrounds..."
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Posted By Andrew Rushton
How do you define a difference between health & safety and food safety?
Are the two not hand in hand one in the same in many circumstances here?
Is product safety not covered by HASAWA?
Is this journalist just uneducated?
The viscera (guts for the none food educated), if infected present a health risk to the employees handling them.
What I am trying to say. is that if you work in the food industry, you will find that food safety and what seems to be being defined as health & safety are actually heavily interlinked, and can be deterimental to each other if treated in isolation, as any professional that has worked in food manufacturing, will tell you.
(Yes, the sad git is qualified in food safety and health & safety)
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Posted By David Bannister
Andrew, I agree that food safety is integral with general H&S in a similar way to nuclear safety, offshore safety, ergonomics, occ health etc which are all very specific areas and closely related to general H&S, but with their own experts, procedures, legal framework etc.
However my original post was designed to raise awareness amongst users of this forum that the BBC were at it again. From the number of responses to the jouno's blog and his subsequent amendment we appear to have made a (very small) difference. Perhaps his next rant may be more informed (little hope).
Best wishes
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