Health and Safety is more than a killjoy phrase

When some people hear the phrase 'Health & Safety' they think of activity they regard as normal being stopped by bureaucrats. I'm sure some of the stories we read about are exaggerated and I'm also sure that some guidance is over-interpreted, but safety really matters. It matter so much that being 99.9% safe is not safe at all. The picture is from the Twitter feed of Andy Furlong, Policy Director at the Institution of Chemical Engineers. It shows Frazer Mackay, a senior Director with Foster Wheeler, the global process engineering company. He was speaking at a Process Safety conference in Edinburgh on 8 May 2014. Would you like to be the person who has to drink that glass of water?