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Household Chemicals And Poisons Rules To Be Replaced Toilet cleaners and fly sprays are soon to be classified as low risk products under plans announced by the government following its Red Tape Challenge consultation aimed at retailers. In the words of the Government: The plan: simplify the ineffective and burdensome poisons licensing system for low risk products such as fly spray and toilet cleaner. This follows suggestions that as chemicals are controlled by 'Chemical Hazard' legislation, consumer product safety can easily come under The General Product Safety Regulations 2005. These regulations refer to safety in one section only and consist of a single paragraph ending in the words: "(4) No producer shall supply a product unless the product is a safe product." One responder to the Red Tape Challenge website on retail safety legislation suggested: "Product safety can be controlled in a way similar to the general product safety regs relying on standards rather than a proscriptive list of criteria. Everything supplied must be safe! The regulations are too complicated for words! They seem to be overly concerned with procedure rather than giving powers to removing suspect goods." Simply put, and using this arguement; the logic is that all safety regulation can be abolished and replaced with the words: "Everything supplied must be safe!" or "Everything you do must be safe!" It seems that the people responding to this opportunity to slash health & safety regulations whether or not they pertain to the work place or to consumers, do not see the need to establish the criteria by which things are deemed as safe and how safety is enforced. Source: Red Tape Challenge website |
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