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  I'm a 1970s kid / 1980s teenager which was a time when we used to go out tree climbing, adventuring up the cliffs, and coming home with cut knees, bruised elbows and exciting stories to tell.
  
  I have often wondered what such a risk-averse culture will create in the next generation. If this is allowed to go on long enough as badly as it currently is, then could it saturate the mindset of the new youth and give rise to a generation so brainwashed by risk-aversion that they live in fear of almost everything? Will their tendency for risk-aversion be so bad that we lose an entire generation of entrepreneurs? Will all leisure activity cease such as rollercoasters, contact sports, and adventure travel? This may all be over-the-top conjecture but I do believe that this will have SOME effect in future and it won't be pretty. Just look back at my generation, I am part of the MTV generation and the influence of this is profoundly visible in our often risible culture all these years later.
  
  Here's a few REAL H&S stories to get you sufficiently wound-up:
  
  School kids couldn't watch chick eggs hatching because HSE insisted on a biological risk assessment
  
  HSE warn people not to clear ice from footpaths in case they get sued
  
  School kids made to wear safety goggles when playing conkers
  
  HSE forced kids to stop playing on a rope swing even though it had many years of 100% accident free record
  
  Kids were banned from making toys and models from used egg cartons because of salmonella risk
  
  Teachers were prohibited from helping kids to apply sunscreen in case a molestation case resulted
  
  We do need this to be reformed. At the moment our H&S culture is making England safe for bloody idiots and little else.

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