'Health and safety' is often incorrectly used as a convenient excuse to stop what are essentially sensible activities going ahead.
The Health and Safety Executive has set up an independent panel - the Myth Busters Challenge Panel - to scrutinise such decisions.
To mark the launch of the new Myth Busters Challenge Panel, HSE has published its top ten worst myths.
The Myth of the Month series ran from April 2007 to December 2010. Throughout this period, HSE attempted to dispel some of the most widely believed health and safety myths.
Responding to health and safety related articles and reports in the British media.
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