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A panel set up to expose ‘health and safety’ excuses has clocked up 150 cases in its first year – helping the public fight back against jobsworths who use safety laws as a convenient ruse to ban legitimate activities.

Health and Safety Executive Chair Judith Hackitt, who heads a team of experts that rules on cases when ‘health and safety’ is suspected of being cited for bogus reasons, has called for those making daft decisions to own up to their real motives.

Among the more crackpot cases exposed as myths by the panel in 2013 alone were:

• The bars that refuse to pull pints in glasses with handles
• The burger that could not be cooked rare

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