Health & Safety Madness - stick them in here.

[davieG]

School in a flap over flapjacks

Canvey Island school bans triangle shaped flapjacks

Castle View School confirms it has reviewed 'texture and shape' of flapjacks

A school's decision to ban triangular flapjacks after a pupil was hurt has been labelled "half-baked" by the Health and Safety Executive.

It follows an incident at Castle View School in Canvey Island, Essex, when a boy was hit in the face by a flapjack.

Catering staff at the school have been told only to serve square or rectangular flapjacks.

The school said the "isolated accident" had led to a review of "the texture and shape of the flapjacks" provided.

A three-point guide to flapjacks

• Flapjacks are chewy biscuits made from rolled oats, golden syrup or honey, fat (usually butter) and sugar
  
• They are baked in a flat tin and cut into squares, rectangles or any other shape while still warm
  
• Use of the word 'flapjack' dates back to the 17th Century according to the Oxford English Dictionary
  

• How to cook flapjacks
  

A spokesman for the Health and Safety Executive said: "We often come across half-baked decisions taken in the name of health and safety, but this one takes the biscuit.

"The real issue isn't what shape the flapjacks are, but the fact that pupils are throwing them at each other - and that's a matter of discipline, and has got nothing to do with health and safety as we know it.

"We're happy to make clear that flapjacks of all shapes and sizes continue to have our full backing."

Health and safety advisor Ray Hurst said he could not understand why triangular flapjacks had been banned, but not those cut into squares or rectangles.

"Anything that is thrown is likely to cause injury if it hits somebody, especially in the face or the eye," said Mr Hurst, former president of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health.

"It does seem a little over the top to ban triangular flapjacks," he said.

Essex County Council said it did not give schools guidance on the shapes of foodstuffs.

Don't square and rectangular flapjacks have corners, why haven't they insisted that they are round?

[Harry - LCFC]

Don't square and rectangular flapjacks have corners, why haven't they insisted that they are round?

Come on now, is it not obvious? Square corners are have an angle of a mere 90 degrees whereas triangular corners (assuming this flapjack is an equilateral triangle) are an outrageous 60 degrees!

Ask yourself, is it really safe to eat a flapjack with a corner that sharp?

[Dan]

It makes me sick that I struggle getting a job whilst you get some utter moron making a living coming out with shit like that.

[James.]

It makes me sick that I struggle getting a job whilst you get some utter moron making a living coming out with shit like that.

Who exactly is making a living coming out with shit like that?

[Alexikokopops]

Who exactly is making a living coming out with shit like that?

Has anyone said "It's political correctness gone maaaaaaaad!!!!!!!" yet? If not, consider this the first.

[Mike the Metal Ed]

People must have pretty dull lives to give a toss about this.

[BoneDog]

Hit in the face by a flapjack

[21st Century Fox]

It's about time someone stood up to the flapjack illuminati and their triangles.