Ed Sirett wrote:

It has been abundantly obvious to me and others (on a Part-P course this
week) that Part Prescot has nothing to do with safety but everything to do
with shutting down small businesses (making the environment uneconomic for
them to operate in).

Certainly yes. It must also have been helped by large commercial
organisations that had other agendas to further by encouraging the
legislators to think in that direction. It probably plays straight into
the closed shop sentimentalities of the DPM himself no doubt.

If safety/quality was an issue.

1) Make all standards clear simple and available free of charge. Currently
the required 'how-to' docs are spread throughout a range of documents some
free and some prohibitively expensive.

This alone would save far more lives that anything they have so far
attempted to do, and cost a tiny fraction into the bargain.

One of the other dangers that arises from the creation of so much
nonsensical, pointless, and unenforceable "bad law" of this type, is the
danger of allowing the law to appear to be an ass in the eyes of the man
in the street. It devalues the whole weight of the legal infrastructure
as it becomes ever more difficult for normally law abiding people to go
about the basic functions of everyday life without legally transgressing
on a regular basis - either by ignorance, or by tiring of the futility
of caring any more.



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Cheers,

John.

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