Example of h&s stupidity ?

[Dean Lofthouse]

Perhaps they have swordfish, not koi.

 

I did see the report and had exactly the same thought as you - it is ridiculous get-up for a 'safe' area.

 

The danger of shoving it up peoples noses so much is you'll either get people rebelling over it or turn them into Mongous droids incapable of rational and subjective thinking. In 50 years time we will see the population of the UK walking into brick walls and falling over curbs because no-one told them to turn left or right or stop and it will be the walls fault because it wasn't painted hi vis

[difflock]

Dean,

I attempted to explain this apparently unheard of line of free thinking to our H&S guy (who is actually a likeable bloke)

Nope!

All are to be trained to be unthinking automans operating within strictly proscribed parameters.

NO BLOODY THINKING!!

that could be dangerous.

Lockers will be provided for unneeded brains during working hours.

PS

I have started asking H&S officers "how did you get here today"

Not in a car i hope.?

Do you KNOW how many people die on our roads each day.

FFS!

PPs

Particularly pertinent to this forum, only hearsay so far.

but it appears a gentleman was on local TV showing the horrendous wound to his face caused by a chainsaw he was using, lucky to not lose the eye apparently.

TV failed to mention he is employed by D.... City Council as a H&S officer.

He was using the chainsaw at home.

I do wonder what training he had?

Or what PPE he was wearing at the time.

This should perhaps be investigated furthur.

Edited June 27, 2013 by difflock

[Breton monkey]

that mic looks dangerous..... could poke someones eye out with that! haha!

[Pete Bannister]

I remember going on a site years ago wear the blanket policy was to wear safety glasses, over normal glasses, under a visor...the sweat misted up all the lenses making it impossible to see anything. I explained this to the site foreman, and he said to work at a speed that would not encourage perspiration. I returned with the fact that we were working to a price, he said that H&S policy was very clear and should be taken into account when quoting. Thankfully I was only on site for a couple of days in the end. It wasn't my job, I was subbing for another company who had quoted the work.

Andy, you were sweating cus of the 'blanket policy' no doubt.

[easy-lift guy]

I do like the way she is holding the Mic though

 

Now that you mentioned that she does look pretty determined.

easy-lift guy

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

 

Dean,

 

Particularly pertinent to this forum, only hearsay so far.

but it appears a gentleman was on local TV showing the horrendous wound to his face caused by a chainsaw he was using, lucky to not lose the eye apparently.

TV failed to mention he is employed by D.... City Council as a H&S officer.

He was using the chainsaw at home.

I do wonder what training he had?

Or what PPE he was wearing at the time.

This should perhaps be investigated furthur.

 

this one needs making a meal of !

[gensetsteve]

Dean,

I attempted to explain this apparently unheard of line of free thinking to our H&S guy (who is actually a likeable bloke)

Nope!

All are to be trained to be unthinking automans operating within strictly proscribed parameters.

NO BLOODY THINKING!!

that could be dangerous.

Lockers will be provided for unneeded brains during working hours.

PS

I have started asking H&S officers "how did you get here today"

Not in a car i hope.?

Do you KNOW how many people die on our roads each day.

FFS!

PPs

Particularly pertinent to this forum, only hearsay so far.

but it appears a gentleman was on local TV showing the horrendous wound to his face caused by a chainsaw he was using, lucky to not lose the eye apparently.

TV failed to mention he is employed by D.... City Council as a H&S officer.

He was using the chainsaw at home.

I do wonder what training he had?

Or what PPE he was wearing at the time.

This should perhaps be investigated furthur.

 

Everybody knows you dont need to be safe at home. You can forget all that h&S stuff when it means spending your own money. Make do and mend at home and rely on common sense, but thats where it all falls down because they have trained common sense out of them. My brother is a healthy and safety officer if he can dig up enough problems he can go days with out lifting a spanner or breaking in to a sweat. Health and safety succeeds where scargil failed.