The Health and Safety Executive's (HSE) Mythbuster panel have uncovered a bad egg in a local pub.
When they requested that a fried egg was replaced with scrambled egg, a customer was told it was against health and safety standards to do so.
The reason for this supposed health and safety breach was the scrambled egg would require using a microwave.
The HSE's Mythbusting panel gave a succinct reply to this, that "Health and safety at work legislation does not prohibit the use of a microwave oven to make scrambled eggs."
Cedrec's take
What to add to the Mythbusting panel that has not been said already?
The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 deals with a range of hazards in the work place, working at heights, forklifts, eye protection and more. Cooking eggs in a microwave is not something that such legislation should be concerned with, and we at Cedrec are pleased such a case of wrongful case of "health and safety gone mad" has been cracked.
