Health and Safety has been hijacked (worldwide, not just in Britain) as the new vehicle by which anal-retentive control freaks impose their twisted obsessions on the rest of us. Time was, they resided mostly within various religious organisations, local Government, political parties of a certain persuasion, and a number of pressure groups wanting peace, veganism, and cetacean rights. Now they have a mania expression forum with statutory authority!
Why not just hang the poppies in a net, if it's too dangerous to go up in the roof space?