Published last week, Lord Young’s report for the government into health and safety regulations has gone largely unreported, even though “it’s health and safety gone mad” is such a common refrain in the media. The reason? Mostly, I suspect, because the report leads on health and safety for employees at work whilst the stories the media most love talking about are usually about health and safety more widely, such as for visitors to museums.
Reading through the report, it comes across as one from a Conservative rather than a Liberal Democrat: hence the frequent references to the problems of over-zealous …

