And beware of biscuits
Do you allow your staff to take tea breaks? Do they eat biscuits with their tea? Do you have a health and safety policy for how to eat biscuits? If not, perhaps you should, because according to a recent survey, more than half of all Britons have been injured by biscuits.
According to the results of a survey conducted by Mindlab and commissioned by biscuit manufacturers Rocky, an estimated 25 million adults have been injured while eating during a tea or coffee break, and up to 500 have landed themselves in hospital. Injuries range from being splashed or scalded by hot tea to damaging a tooth. Dunking biscuits accounts for many of the injuries and almost a third of the survey admitted to burning themselves whilst trying to fish out the remnants of a collapsed digestive. 28% of people questioned said they'd had a choking fit on biscuit crumbs, and 10% said they'd broken a tooth or cracked a filling.
Over the course of a lifetime, who hasn't had a choking fit on biscuit crumbs? However, I am surprised that 7% of the survey said they had been bitten by a pet "or other wild animal" whilst attempting to eat a biscuit, and truly impressed by the 3% of people who said they had poked themselves in the eye with one.
For the safety conscious, the most dangerous biscuit is the custard cream. If you are want to minimise your chances of an accident, it is best to stick to Jaffa Cakes.
29th September 2009