Pupils made to wear goggles to handle Blu Tack as health and safety reaches 'ridiculous' new heights

 

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Last updated at 8:13 AM on 19th June 2009

 

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Health and safety gone mad: Children are being made to wear goggles when handling Blu Tack, and forbidden to run in the playground

 

Children are being made to wear goggles before handling Blu Tack and are forbidden to run in the playground as a health and safety culture sweeps through schools.

A survey of nearly 600 teachers revealed the most restrictive rules being imposed in an attempt to avoid injuries and lawsuits.

Pupils at one school are forced to put on goggles before using Blu Tack to prevent them rubbing the common adhesive into their eyes.

In another, teachers are given a five-page briefing note on the dangers of Pritt Stick before they may use it with their charges.

Generations of youngsters who made things out of empty egg boxes will be dismayed to learn that some schools have banned them for fear of salmonella poisoning.

And many teachers reported bans on footballs, snowball fights, conker games and running in the playground.

Nearly half of teachers and classroom assistants polled by Teachers TV believe health and safety regulations are holding children back at school.

The findings emerged days after the Local Government Association urged parents and schools to shake off the 'cotton wool' culture.

It vowed that town halls would not 'bow to the compensation culture' and would build new adventure-playgrounds.

 

Judith Hackitt, chairman of the Health and Safety Executive, said the examples cited were 'frankly ridiculous'.

 

 

 

She added: 'Health and safety is blamed for a lot of things not going ahead, but they're often about something else - high costs, an event that requires a lot of organising or fear of getting sued.

'Children cannot be wrapped in cotton wool - risk is part of growing up and our children need to learn how to manage risks in the real world.'

A spokesman for the Department for Children, Schools and Families said: 'We urge schools to take a commonsense approach to keeping safe.

 

 

 

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'Health and safety should not be a major burden and it shouldn't stop pupils from learning and playing.

'A small amount of risk is part and parcel of growing up and we do not subscribe to a cotton wool culture-of a sanitised childhood.'

 

The survey also revealed that two in five teachers are concerned about being alone in a room with a pupil in case they are falsely accused of inappropriate behaviour.

And more than half have had to deal with a situation where they feared a child was being abused.

But almost a third did not feel properly prepared and trained to deal with such

My art teacher just let me use a hot glue gun today. SHE'S BREACHING STUDENT SAFETY GUIDELINES!!!!!!!! FIRE HER NOW!!!!!!!!!

 

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My art teacher just let me use a hot glue gun today. SHE'S BREACHING STUDENT SAFETY GUIDELINES!!!!!!!! FIRE HER NOW!!!!!!!!!

 

 

................................with a hot glue gun??:P

Drowning in shaving foam???

They didn't say anything about whipped cream though

Drowning in shaving foam???

 

 

Anyway this is stupid and silly