While I'm all for safety, with some of the horror stories we have heard in recent years about HSE inspectors, I can't help but feel that some of them would have felt quite at home as gestapo agents.
It would be interesting to see exactly which part of the law says that an inspector may confiscate (i.e. take without permission) a piece of private property just because in his opinion it may not comply with the rules. Whatever happened to due process?
Alan,
I don't know if you might be able to confirm this, but a couple of years ago on TV there was a report which stated that France has no direct equivalent to the British HSE, yet their workplace accident rate is no higher than in the U.K.
