Forget about heavy machinery or sharp tools - it turns out the most dangerous item at your local hardware store is hot onion. 

Bunnings Warehouse is facing backlash over new health and safety rules in Australia and New Zealand that will require any sausage sizzle cook to put the onion underneath the sausage.

The intention is to save people from getting serious burns, but the rule has been ridiculed across social media.

Caller Declan told Andrew Dickens Afternoons that he only eats sausage sizzles purely because of how dangerous they are!

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