Conor:
Doesn’t bother me because most of my shift will be spent in my cab on my own.H&S doesn’t bother me, I’m paid by the hour. The more there is the safer I am, the more I get paid to do the same work because of the extra time it adds to the job. My opinion of H&S might be driven by the fact I had to have a spinal operation in my early 20s because I ignored H&S, knackered the disc above the two that were operated on whilst truck driving because I ignored H&S. It is inoperable because of previous op and I’m suffering the consequences of ignoring H&S for the rest of my life.
If it was as simple as using common sense then the rules that have been put in place wouldn’t have had to have been because the accident that was the result of them coming into force wouldn’t have happened because people had used common sense. The amount of H&S there is at firms is as a result of people NOT using common sense and there are a lot of low IQ braindead halfwits driving trucks. Nothing is put in place until there’s been an incident.
Mixed feelings on H&S, there is no way I ignore it as you did, but I am selective.
There is no way in hell I would climb up on top of a high load to roll out a sheet, as I used to every day, or roll out a slot sheet on the roof of a wet slippery chip liner, or swing off tilt roof.bars like Tarzan 
…again as I used to, or similar unsafe and derogatory to your health type practices.
I’m older, wiser, more sense now, …but apart from that I would not be allowed to because of H&S, and I fully agree in those type of (genuine) cases, no argument.
On the other hand, just as one example, why do I need to sit in some cold uncomfortable shack on a hard seat, that stinks, and beside the resident knobhead who insists on talking to everybody, getting ■■■■■■ off and stressed out, when I could have an hour’s real rest on my bunk, …especially when I have handed in my keys, put a suzie lock on, chocked my wheels…or all 3. 
to the point where neither Dynamo nor David Blaine could not pull the ■■■■ truck off the bay. 
Surely H&S becomes a paradox in that sort of situation…, it’s both healthier and safer to do what in that case is prohibited.
As for the idiots you mention, make them conform, I couldn’t give a ■■■■ if they all end up as cripples if they can’t perceive danger, but just leave the ones with common sense to adapt to individual situations, instead of a one size fits all rule, covering every single potential scenario from slippery floors to plagues of ■■■■ locusts, thus making the job 10x harder than it should be, …or more bizzarely the opposite intention to the original format of H&S when it all kicked off. 
Tin hat on Conor (once again 
) for daring to disagree with you.