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I was until a couple of years ago the Health and Safety manager of a print works, and so am qualified and experienced in this area.
I also, as part of keeping up to date in the field I had to read the various digests and publications detailing H&S cases that had been prosecuted, and also listed the misguided attempts to ban things for reasons of "Health and Safety".
The key thing to be aware of, is that the vast majority of people who bring this sort of stuff up are not law makers, but are petty jobs-worths are gold-plating well intentioned rules "just in case".
All the storied about "conkers banned by health and safety nazis" and so on are bollocks. None of these were based on good solid legal advice, they are based on someone being scared of litigation.
All Health and Safety law in the UK is based on the test of "reasonable practicability". In essence, this means that provided what you did will convince over half of a jury that you acted with good intentions, you are not breaking the law.
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