The 1974 Health and Safety at Work (HASAW) Act has helped make Britain one of the safest countries in terms of workplace deaths and serious injuries. And yet, the organisation responsible for reducing incidents has to debunk H&S myths on a monthly basis. The general population reckons there's a compensation culture and the government launches an investigation into what can be done to ease the burden of health and safety regulation on society.

What's wrong with H&S in Britain? What are the facts? Should the country be proud of what's been achieved, perhaps become complacent and reverse the progress to encourage more risk-taking behaviour? This series of blog entries investigates, highlighting data across industry, investigating stories of 'elf and safety gone mad', and asking who's to blame for the perception of the UK's compensation culture.