Last year saw the lowest number of employment-related fatalities. As a claimant personal injury lawyer I feel a sense of relief. There I was thinking I was an ambulance-chasing waste of space, with no social utility or worth.

Perhaps the ‘potty’ Brussels ‘bureaucrats’ who inflicted this ‘health and safety gone mad’ situation on us are sleeping a little easier as well. The decline in fatalities, needless to say, has not featured in the popular media (the BBC excepted).

I hope that this has not escaped the prime minister and Lord Young, who has been requested to report on the burden of so-called ‘health and safety’.

‘Health and Safety’ (please note the capital letters now applied) has somehow been given a derogatory meaning, as if it is something dark, sinister and contrary to our national interest.

I hope that Young considers the cost of caring for a seriously injured workplace accident victim or his or her dependants.

‘Health’ and ‘safety’ are to be aspired to in any civilised society; notwithstanding the fact that I may be deprived of work as a result.

Marc Folgate , Scrivenger Seabrook, St Neots, Cambridgeshire