Throughout 2010 readers shared their favourite health and safety horrors from around the world
Don鈥檛 look up
Rebecca Shorter is a member of the construction team at solicitor Cripps Harries Hall, who are 鈥渁ll big fans鈥� of 好色先生TV鈥檚 health and safety blunders. So even when on honeymoon in Mauritius, she couldn鈥檛 resist snapping this very polite apology for raining rocks down on pedestrians鈥� heads.
A bridge too far
Simon Whitehead spotted this instructive scene in Dulwich, south London, which demonstrates that the 鈥渙h, it鈥檒l probably be okay鈥� approach doesn鈥檛 always work out 鈥�
Balance of terror
Our thanks to Nigel Barrett for this picture of daily life on a south London trading estate. He writes: 鈥淭hey did manage to unload and place the sheet material without causing injury.鈥�
Ever vigilant
You know those metal discs that sometimes appear right in the middle of the road? It turns out they鈥檙e even more dangerous than we thought. Thanks to Nick Dodd for this one.
Rain man
Full marks for creating a perfect water slide with a glass conservatory for a crash pad. Jim Cunningham from Dunfermline, who took this photo, said: 鈥淲hy anyone would clean a roof is beyond me. They must have had non-slip shoes.鈥�
Hide and seek
This photo does not, in fact, depict a game but two workmen trying to repair a light fitting in the decking. Thanks to Graham Tharme for this picture taken in the Maldives.
Cuckoo
Mike Plymsol saw this skywalker at the 2,600m summit of the Jakobshorn mountain in Switzerland. 鈥淗aving positioned the first timber support beam, the builder balanced his way across this carrying the next beam, watched in amazement by cappuccino-sipping tourists.鈥�
Always wear clean shoes
Paul Southon sent in these astonishing pictures taken from a flat in the centre of London. As he says: 鈥淧lease note the person cares more about the carpets (blue overshoes) than his own life.鈥�
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