Press columnist Mike Yardley wrote this good piece about e-scooters but rather spoiled it by including this lazy pot-shot about H&S:
"You would think that in this age, when we have health and safety regulations strangling virtually every other aspect of our daily lives, even the most basic regulatory safety framework should have been implemented here, before Lime was allowed to unleash hundreds of these gimmicky wheeled wonders on our streets."
This is a commonly held view: that businesses are being "strangled" by H&S "red tape".
Can Forum members come up with a short, pithy, printable response to this common assertion? One that we could trot out to demolish this unsubstantiated argument?