Health and Safety: Beware of the Tiger ladder

[Wood wasp]

Zookeepers banned from using ladders to put out food for tigers - Telegraph Edited September 4, 2014 by Wood wasp
I did strike out on "tiger" but it hasn't shown up

[Will Heal]

There must be a way of putting the meat up there without a ladder

 

What about putting a pulley at the top of the pole for a life line and then spiking up the pole

[Ian G 2]

Aye the keepers could have race up the posts before the cats lol

[Justme]

How is this any different to any other job that needs a ladder?

 

In fact they seem to have made it quite safe with the top fixed & the bottom in perm fixings.

[difflock]

MEWP

Simply because it is a predictable repetitive practice that CAN be eliminated.

Therefore it should be.

Or hinged at the ground poles, hydraulically raised, would be even better, simply because it obviates the requirment for staff to leave the ground.

As a Council employer one cannot be allowed to "fix stupid" by sacking them.

Therefore one must work around their innate stupidity/shortcomings.

Ask me how I know.

[Mesterh]

Thinking outside the 'box' here but errm maybe spiking the pole and attaching the meat is a possibility.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Health & safety "officials"....

 

Does that mean representatives of the HSE or does it mean H&S reps for that council?

 

Be interesting to see if this appears on the HSE "Myth busters" page:

 

http://www.hse.gov.uk/contact/myth-busting.htm

[nepia]

Health & safety "officials"....

 

Does that mean representatives of the HSE or does it mean H&S reps for that council?

 

Be interesting to see if this appears on the HSE "Myth busters" page:

 

Myth Busters Challenge Panel

 

 

 

My line of thinking exactly. The officialese trotted out came from Barrow Borough Council according to the report, not the HSE.

Like you I suspect the real H&S people would consider that risk mitigation had been done, alternatives considered (and tried) and that the task had a proven track record of safe operation.

[hedgesparrow]

a jobs worth with nothing better to do needs to make themselfs important.

if ladder is out as other posts fit a rope system up and spike it up to put meat up.

have a comp see who can scale the pole the fastest with a tiger underneath:thumbup:

save the zoo having to feed the tigers a new gladiatorial game.

[gensetsteve]

Health and safety is supposed to focus you on common sense methods to improve your working enviroment. Often its not actually H&S that is the problem its the way its interpreted and implemented by management with some organisations. Often its used to create problems and well paid positions that are not actually needed.