Posted By Jonathan Carrick See this thread, andf the other to which it also links: http://www.iosh.co.uk/in...um=1&thread=33878&page=1

Posted By Aidan Toner This is no yolk (you also need the egg white,.. butter etc!!). And Seriously.... can someone in our PR section please respond to this one. Usual response to point out the following;. (A) A suitable and sufficient risk assessment delivers efficiencies and greater enjoyment to event participants. (B)The controls derived from a suitable/sufficient RA are quite different from the blanket controls handed down by faceless insurance bureaucrats designed to service 'Martini Events'...ie Any time, Any Place, Anywhere'. *(Have I have just Carbon Dated myself with my reference to the Collins and Rossiter Ads??) Anyway, looking forward to a suitable retort from IOSH. Wield a big, heavy pan if necessary.

Posted By Arran Linton - Smith I am somewhat amused by the discrepancy we now have within the press towards our profession. On one hand when we have a significant air crash at Heathrow without any loss of life and there is nothing about the success of all the safety systems, which were employed and the decades of investment which went in to developing this and the safety culture within BA, however on the other hand they appear to be quite happy to belittle and bully our profession and when we identify the errors in their research, they are not interested in correcting this. Is this something that we should now be raising with the PCC or do we just sit this out?

Posted By Paul Duell It's on the BBC news website now as well. A tenner to the charity of the moderators' choice, if IOSH get the BBC to carry an amendment along the lines of "OK, it was the insurers and nothing to do with H&S".

Posted By Kenneth Patrick The chair of the HSC has also expressed her concern about this issue on the HSE website. In her note she says: "Given that this is an annual event, a straightforward risk assessment should have been done several years ago;" I am intrigued to know under what legislation Ripon cathedral was required to do a risk assessment for a pancake race

Posted By Jonathan Breeze It's funny how none of the Nationals ran this headline about the fact that the pancake race did go ahead in Ripon: http://www.yorkshirepost...rove-a-breeze.3747420.jp Similarly, the didn't report on the fantastic event run outside our Mold office by Flintshire County Council (our LA enforcers of H&S) no less. Still, it provides another sponsorship opportunity for IOSH at next years event, I guess.