The Health and Safety Executive has come out fighting this year in a bid to see off accusations that it is some sort of over-zealous killjoy body out to ban Christmas decorations and games of conkers.
First deputy chief executive Justin McCracken wrote to the London Evening Standard to take issue with mayor Ken Livingstone over what it judged to be some ill-judged comments about gas holders.
Then he fired off a missive to The Independent about a bogus claim that the HSE had banned outdoor swimming unless a lifeguard was present.
And finally (well, so far at least, but it's still only 10 days into the new year) HSE chief executive Geoffrey Podger dashed off a rebuke to the Daily Mail after Max Hastings denounced it as "Britain's silliest public body".
The HSE has also launched a "myth of the month" campaign in a further attempt to improve safety experts' public image.
They could probably have done better to kick it off than a rather feeble "Safety experts’ New Year resolution is to make the life of business people as miserable as possible". But it does come with a nice downloadable poster (shown here).
Just make sure you have your goggles, helmet and safety harness fastened before you click on any of these links.
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