Stop taking the myth!

Nearly two thirds of employees think that health and safety either saves lives or means people don't get ill or hurt at work, according to a survey we commissioned. But 'health and safety' is an increasingly easy excuse to give when the job of making something work takes more effort than stopping it. The daft stories we see or hear in the media trivialise health and safety and take our attention away from the real issues.

Making our voice heard

• we champion intelligent health and safety, through our events, free guides and lobbying activities
• we work with journalists to get important health and safety issues into the public eye
• we sponsored the World Conker Championships for the last two years to show that health and safety people aren't killjoys
• we ran a national competition called 'This is my life!' to celebrate life outside work
• we find out what the public and business stakeholders really think about health and safety through surveys and polls
  

Quote me

"We're not about stopping people having pancake races, we're not about stopping people throwing sweets from the stage into pantomime audiences and we're certainly not about stopping kids from playing conkers, which is why we sponsored the World Conker Championships, and I came out of that without a bruise."

Ray Hurst, Chris Evans Show, BBC Radio 2