{"id":103,"date":"2016-08-22T16:56:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T16:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/one-training.org.uk\/healthandsafetycourse\/?page_id=103"},"modified":"2016-08-22T16:56:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T16:56:30","slug":"common-sense-approach-to-health-and-safety","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/foodhygiene.online\/healthandsafety\/common-sense-approach-to-health-and-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"common sense approach to health and safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"introduction\" id=\"story_continues_1\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left; font-weight: bold;\">A government minister has written to schools and local authorities in England urging a more common sense approach to health and safety.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left;\">Work and pensions minister Mike Penning described those who misuse the legislation as &#8220;jobsworths&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left;\">He said he wants to avoid situations like a ban on&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-gloucestershire-22893110\" style=\"color: rgb(74, 113, 148); line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;\">school pupils wearing frilly socks<\/a>&nbsp;after one girl fell over.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left;\">Nearly 300 people have contacted the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to challenge recent decisions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left;\">They include a council preventing loose flowers and pots being placed on graves and a school sports day being cancelled &#8211; because there was dew on the grass.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left;\">Mr Penning said: &#8220;Health and safety has long been used as a smokescreen by jobsworths who have little knowledge of the law and who want to fob people off with an easy excuse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; clear: left;\">cont&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A government minister has written to schools and local authorities in England urging a more common sense approach to health and safety. Work and pensions minister Mike Penning described those who misuse the legislation as &#8220;jobsworths&#8221;. 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