Editorial: A timely toast to health and safety - Editorials - Voices - The Independent

Editorial: A timely toast to health and safety

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Sunday 23 December 2012

From banning Santa from riding his sleigh to stopping children from throwing snowballs, health and safety legislation gets a bad rap these days, at no time of the year more than at Christmas, when the cultural clash between killjoy puritans and Merrie England's devil-may-care revellers appears most acute.

We all think we know how a set of rules once designed to protect us has grown to the point where it winds its coils around every department of life, crushing the life out of the most harmless pastimes and traditions.

 Editorial: A timely toast to health and safety - Editorials - Voices - The Independent 

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