Beware the photocopier ... Britons warned of Christmas party peril

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LONDON (AFP) — It might seem a great idea after several glasses of wine, but the perennial office Christmas party trick of photocopying intimate parts of your anatomy is a dangerous business, British workers were warned.

The photocopier's glass could shatter, with disastrous results, safety experts and trade union leaders warned in an exhaustive pre-Christmas list of how to avert peril at the workplace get-together.

Managers should even avoid putting up mistletoe lest the resulting grappled kisses prompt sexual harassment lawsuits, according to the advice compiled by Britain's Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, or RoSPA.

"We are not being party poopers," said Roger Bibbings of RoSPA, which published the advice jointly with the country's main...