School sports day called off in case children fall over

alex c wrote:

good to see people blaming "pc" and health and safety (gornmad!) like the reactionary idiots they are.

clue - this has NOTHING to do with "political correctness" and very little to do with Health and safety,

03 Aug 2010 10:21 AM

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phil wrote:

Nothing to do with Health and Safety at all.
All to do with parents who are willing to sue if their child has an accident. I imagine the ones complaining about health and safety gone mad are the first ones to contact a lawyer if their precious little offspring has an accident.

31 Jul 2010 11:32 AM

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maria wrote:

There is an advert currently on a local radio station where a firm of solicitors actually encourages you to contact them if your child has an accident at school so they can pursue the school for compensation. It is because of vultures like this firm that events like this get cancelled.

30 Jul 2010 8:15 PM

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dave wrote:

Kids learn by hurting them selves if a kid picks somthing up that is hot he wont pick it up again
what abou them running about on the tarmack playground thats hard

30 Jul 2010 5:52 PM

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alastair wrote:

Looks like they are using H&S as an excuse. The organisers are more worried about being sued for personal injury claims. Dont blame Health and Safety, its more likely that the insurers have put a very hiogh premium on the event!

30 Jul 2010 3:41 PM

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Neal wrote:

Another example of Health and Safety gone mad. I suppose the sports day would have been non competitive anyway.
This country makes me sick

30 Jul 2010 2:07 PM

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Neil Hickman wrote:

This is a perfect example of why this country is turning into a total joke! Why don't we just wrap everyone up in cotton wool and be done with it! RIDICULOUS!!!!!!!!

30 Jul 2010 1:12 PM

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Colin wrote:

I find this hard to believe, I work in the health and safety industry and no right minded professional would ban this. Sure you need to have precautions in place but it just seems that as soon as any one needs a cop out they wave the h&s flag. Come on people get real if you don't want to put the work into organising an event properly don't raise the kids hope's and dash them down and blame health and safety

30 Jul 2010 1:10 PM

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Simon Burch wrote:

What is going on in UK?

Sheer stupidity rears it's head again over there

As an ex pat from Deal now living in France, all we can do is laugh at all the Health & Safety issues and being politically correct all the time.

Perhaps less time on PC and H & S and a bit more street cleaning would be in order.
Even Deal is not as clean as it was!

30 Jul 2010 1:03 PM

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