Has Health and Safety gone too far?? Give example?

Answer 1

Uh, yeah. They have really gone too far. Check this out: A couple of years ago a church in Detroit thought it would be a good idea to use one of the many abandoned buildings near the downtown area as a place where homeless people could come in during the winter months and get out of the cold. The church was able to get several local businesses to pledge funds so they could buy a building. Seemed like a great idea and everything was going just fine -- until OSHA got involved. It would have cost four times more than the cost of the building to bring it up to OSHA standards because they told the church the building MUST have access for the physically disabled, a working elevator, fire suppression systems, smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, a certain number of bathrooms (with a certain number of toilets in each one), an infirmary; the list goes on and on. And of course, everything in the building from the floors to the walls to the paint to the pipes had to conform to OSHA standards. As a result, the church scrapped the idea. A great humanitarian effort laid to waste by bureaucracy...

Answer 2

Health safety has not gone to far. In concerns of the FDA this government agency has gone to far in trying to control natrual healing. If you read some of the articles i have listed in the sources, you will see that the FDA is only out to protect the pharmacutical companies and is not really trying to protect the public.

Answer 3

The only thing that has gone to far is trying to live in a sterile world. This of course helps kill off micro-organisms that can kill you, but when you think of all the sterile conditions everyone expects you to live in, it's hard to imagine back in the days of my parents (30s era) and even when I was a kid in the 70s and how they got into things that should have killed them (according to the doctor's and scientists). Health is one thing, but when EVERYTHING gives you cancer or some type of poisoning, then you have to sit and wonder if it was indeed better back in my day and my parents as I was hardly ever sick, or now and live like my kids with allergies, colds / flus every year, etc.

Answer 4

well being and safe practices officials insisted that yellow strips be positioned on the aspects of each and every of the steps outdoors our workplace progression.curiously people did not comprehend the position the fringe of the steps were??? on the first day 3 people tripped on them, 2 mandatory clinical clinical care on the nurses workplace and one ended up hospitalised because she hit her head on the "bounce" down. Funnily adequate there became then a HSE record performed and the safe practices strips were bumped off and adjusted with rubber step covers. Now each and every of the leaves from the trees follow them, they carry water, and develop right into a slippy mess - worse contained in the chilly climate - they now ought to move out common and sweep them. NUTS to boot as intense priced in case you question me....

Answer 5

Slow release of new drugs for those who's condition has not responded to all other therapies. Slow release of drugs that have not been approved like medical marijuana. AIDS patients who have no other options need access to all possible therapies if they are dying anyway. Any terminal illness should be enough to allow all types of treatments, approved or not.