Is Health and Safety a new religion?

[MDV]

Trouble is when you speak up it looks like your advocating slack dangourus or apathetic practises when really your just speaking

COMMON SENSE!!!

I've had a safety manager (strictly speaking a nuclear safety case manager, which has $%&# all to do with trivial cr@p like this) have a go at me for "not caring about safety" because he thought paper on my desk was a fire hazard. Paper next to someone welding is a fire hazard. I told him that my phone and PC arent ignition sources and to go and do some real work. He hasnt bugged me since.

[38thBeatle]

Will, the answer might be that your Insurers dealt with the claim under the MIB ( Motor Insurance Bureau)rules where the other responsible driver is uninsured. Without knowing the full facts I can't say. The intention was to compensate the victims of uninsured drivers-quite rightly so but it does throw up some oddities from time to time.