Health and safety should be taken seriously and where there’s genuine risk assessments are essential. However sometimes rules and regulations can be taken too far, often by over-zealous public officials. In the British town of Darlington mothers are furious after the local authority banned the use of strollers…. at a children’s center. The council had decided that taking strollers inside the building could be a risk so parents were forced to leave them outside. As this was itself a risk, of theft, the officials advised chaining strollers to railings. Outraged mothers who did not want to put babies into cold or damp strollers after being inside the center stopped using it. The council has now agreed to open talks with parents to find an “acceptable compromise”.
