The Stupid Squad are dangerous. The Stupid Squad can seriously damage your health.

This country is now suffering a pandemic known as the virus HSE.

The Health and Stupidity Executive!

Currently there is no known cure.

I would like to suggest a course of massive doses of ‘Common Sense Serum’. Perhaps then, and only then, we can save this country from so much unnecessary tragedy.

In days of old we used to cry out for there to be more measures put in place to protect us from the preventable. Safety guards on dangerous machinery; procedures to ensure important checks weren’t overlooked. But now it’s all gone a bit Pete Tong!

For instance, this most recent case is an example of how the work of the HSE is now defeating the very objective it was set up to achieve:

A grandfather was left dying while a paramedic spent 16 minutes carrying out a health and safety check on his flat.

Roy Adams, 61, was told to leave the entrance to his home open for emergency workers after he dialled 999 for medical help following a suspected heart attack.

But it is thought that the rapid response medic who was first at the scene feared the open door and another on the latch meant the flat was being burgled.

He waited outside and conducted a risk assessment while waiting for police support vehicles to arrive.

By the time he entered the property Mr Adams had collapsed to the floor, unable to breathe. He died on the way to hospital.

His daughter Catherine, a security worker, said she believed the delay might have cost her father his life.

In another recent case at the Camberwell Flats fire where six people lost their lives this is the report that came out:

Fire-fighters battling the Camberwell tower block inferno that killed six people were forced to pull out of the building because of health and safety rules, it has been claimed.

A Fire Brigade source said crews were on the 11th floor of the 14-storey tower and about to rescue a group of trapped residents when the order came to withdraw amid fears of an explosion.

When it was finally deemed safe to go back in, it was too late to save Helen Udoaka, 34, her three-week-old daughter, Michelle, and Dayana Francisquini, 26, her son Filipe, three, and daughter Thais, six, who were trapped in a bathroom.

The HSE, or the incompetence of people in charge of interpreting its directives, is becoming expert at turning tragedy into travesty.

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