Potter inspires personal accident guide

Gillian Cooper
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Fans of boy wizard Harry Potter can now learn how to avoid personal accident claims thanks to new themed safety advice.
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) has released a Hogwarts Guide to Health and Safety in an attempt to cut workplace accidents.
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In it, popular Potter activities are given real-life counterparts, while the advice is illustrated with pictures from the JK Rowling series.

The guide states: "While at first glance it might seem a bit of a leap, on closer inspection Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is a natural candidate for a health and safety case study. After all, this is an organisation that must manage risks such as working at heights (on broomsticks) and COSHH (potions classes) on a daily basis - not to mention being answerable to the Ministry of Magic to ensure they're not in breach of any regulations!"

It's not the first time Harry Potter has been credited with improving personal accident statistics. A study in the British Medical Journal found that on the two weekends when The Order of the Phoenix and The Half-Blood Prince were launched, child injuries fell to their lowest level of the interim two years.

Source: http://rospaworkplacesafety.com/2013/07/30/hogwarts-health-and-safety/

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