A website for the British Biscuit Advisory Board was launched last month sending up biscuit safety.  According to reports in the national press this was taken seriously by some council workers with some organising supervised tea breaks and completing an online questionnaire about biscuit related injuries.

Northern Foods who manufacture Fox’s Biscuits launched the British Biscuit Advisory Board website as part of a £3m promotional campaign, however it audaciously warned consumers about the dangers of either eating, dunking or reaching for biscuits. The campaign took the health and safety angle a stage further by sending a workplace biscuit risk assessment test to a large number of council workers across the country relating to the dangers of biscuit consumption in their workplaces.  Also, hundreds of workers completed an online questionnaire only to find out that it was a hoax.

One of the ideas behind the website was the excesses attributed to health and safety.  In reality accidents associated with biscuits are very small indeed.  Health and safety is a serious subject and the Regulations are there to prevent accidents and injuries in the workplace.  There is always a danger that people take things to extremes which overrule common sense.