Common sense - common safety: a fire chief's view

摘要

I wholly welcome the thrust and spirit of the government's proposals and offer the comments and suggestions contained herein as refining influences. The fact that, in almost every review of serious events, common sense does not seem to have prevailed, is cause enough to doubt whether or not the highly prescriptive approaches taken in the UK are effective. On the other hand, generally speaking, the UK is a very safe place in which to live, work and travel and the attention brought upon health and safety matters is one of the reasons for that fact.