Yeah, the litigious (read, Americanised) culture is definitely partially to blame
It's just that it is usually so inflexible and massively boring, and a lot of it makes no sense. It's putting almost unbearable strain on a lot of small companies because of the sheer amount of paperwork involved.

Method statements as well. What was wrong with just doing risk assessments? Well, quite a lot, but there was no need to make us do method statements as well.
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Tue 28 Oct 2008, 13:52, Reply)