At the factory I last worked at, (a very large international company) the Health & Safety Officer walked across the factory floor, paddled through a 6ft square drip tray filled with hydraulic fluid & the dissasembled pump to reach the fire door, removed the wooden wedge jamming it locked, walked outside to review some spilled diesel oil in the carpark, returned, replaced the wedge, paddled back to his office & instructed a labourer to clean up the diesel, & said not a word to anyone regarding the mess he had just seen.
On another occasion he tripped over a plastic floor tile outside his office which had curled up because they had been painted with a cellulose based, but nice looking, paint, on his instructions, & said nothing!!
It is not the H & S rules that are at fault, it is the utterly moronic numpties that apply them, or not, as they see fit that is the problem, & the reason for the contempt they are held in.
Yeller jackets are a fire hazard a security risk a waste of money & should be compulsory attire for all morons so the rest of us know who to ask where the toilets are.
Just my own opinion by the way.