Charity shop worker who was 'left to die' in 3ft of water because rescue workers were worried about their own health and safety
I have decided to repost this because it really makes me mad that so called health and safety rules are costing not just jobs by making us uncompetitive but lives by giving the man on the spot no authority to make his own decisions where time is of the essence . The regulations also cause the very things they are trying to prevent by making things so costly that people try to do things themselves or call in cheap unreliable cowboys as they cannot afford the " professionals . This is from the daily mail . . 'They just all seemed to be standing around,' said witness More than a dozen emergency workers refused to pull a man from a waist-deep boating lake because of ‘health and safety’ fears. For half-an-hour charity shop worker Simon Burgess, 41, was left face down in the shallow water as they waited for a specialist rescue crew. Mr Burgess, who had gone to the lake to feed the swans, was pronounced dead at the scene but friends claim that if rescuers had waded straight