Gosling's Grouse: DIY pensions

DIY pensions

If you go to an A&E department at the weekends - usually an afternoon or early evening - you see a fascinating tribe of patients, usually including a middle-aged man who has injured himself with a power tool.

On most occasions it is not serious – the odd singed eyebrow, a slight cut on the hand that does not need stitches, but every now and then it requires a bit more than a paracetamol and a plaster, and very occasionally it is life threatening. Do the manufacturers of power tools have a responsibility to provide free advice at point of purchase as to the potential dangers? There is usually an instruction leaflet or manual enclosed, and it is when people do not read those properly they end up in A&E. Can you expect Bosch or Black & Decker to have to take responsibility for someone who does n...