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Article: The Nanny who fritters [pounds sterling]200m of your money.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- August 6, 2003
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Byline: EDWARD HEATHCOAT AMORY
THE Health and Safety Executive is the cutting edge - if that is the right word - of the Nanny State. It enforces the millions of idiotic regulations that tell us how to go about our daily lives.
Recent triumphs include circus performers having to wear hard hats because they are working above the height of a normal stepladder, and a stern warning to the Ambulance Service over the 'manual handling' of accident victims.
Of course, the HSE, and its supervisory quango, the Health and Safety Commission, claim that they are merely administering the law as laid down by Parliament. And of course, they need 4,000 employees ...