Making the news today....

[Dan Maynard]

Company and director fined following worker’s fatal fall from a tree - HSE Media Centre

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A property investment company and its director have been fined after a worker fell from a tree causing fatal injuries...  

Bad business all round, bloke should not have been sent up the ladder and quite right the HSE followed up.

I am intrigued though, there was a report on accident statistics recently and there are a lot of deaths in the 'agriculture fishing and forestry' sector. How many are tree surgeons doing the job properly as opposed to operations like this which should never have been allowed? In other words, how dangerous is doing it properly? Maybe the AA have stats? Or should?

[TIMON]

Possibly a political post ? Israel aint known fr womens rights - hence Orthodox prayer of ' Thank god I was not born a woman' but I am not one to judge the Haaredi , K

I’m just astounded that Iran, Saudi, Pakistan and Yemen can expect to be taken seriously, and keep a straight face when voting against another country (regardless of who it is) for their record on women’s rights......

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

22 minutes ago, Dan Maynard said:

Bad business all round, bloke should not have been sent up the ladder and quite right the HSE followed up.

I am intrigued though, there was a report on accident statistics recently and there are a lot of deaths in the 'agriculture fishing and forestry' sector. How many are tree surgeons doing the job properly as opposed to operations like this which should never have been allowed? In other words, how dangerous is doing it properly? Maybe the AA have stats? Or should?

I don’t think the stats to properly answer your question even exist. 

 

Im not sure there is any energetic push from any notable industry party to filter out the homeowner / farmer / have a go hero figures from legit Arb activities either. 

 

Panic and sensationalism lends itself quite well to justification for more courses, qual’s, refreshers etc - all of which are revenue streams in their own right. 

 

I suspect the instances of genuine arb related accidents pales into complete insignificance when measured by number of practitioners / number of incidents and then compared to a sample of other activities (driving for example.)

 

 

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Who’s gone to Environment Sec then? I’ve seen nothing on the news yet??  

 

A sad reflection of where that department appears to feature in relation to the other headliners. 

 

A missed opportunity to embrace and overtly demonstrate the importance of that brief. 

 

Gove, albeit easy to not like, will be a loss to Environment brief. 

 

 

Edited July 25, 2019 by kevinjohnsonmbe

[TIMON]

Possibly a political post ? Israel aint known fr womens rights - hence Orthodox prayer of ' Thank god I was not born a woman' but I am not one to judge the Haaredi , K

I did consider Aliyah a few years ago. But the Mrs resisted the urge to become a Middle Eastern wife....

[Stere]

Triads V students mass fight:

 

Hong Kong police to ban Yuen Long protest march in rare decision over fears of more violence, but organiser slams ‘political move’ and warns show must go on

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Force makes decision with advice from rural leaders, but organiser says this only fuels suspicions that officers are...

 

Looks like it might kick off again on Saturday....

 

Bamboo sticks as weapons

[Khriss]

4 hours ago, TIMON said:

 

I did consider Aliyah a few years ago. But the Mrs resisted the urge to become one of my Middle Eastern wifes....

 

I think that's more so k

Edited July 25, 2019 by Khriss

[openspaceman]

5 hours ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

Who’s gone to Environment Sec then?

 

Villiers so that's fracking, HS2 and new runways and no worries for ecology or climate change

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

58 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

 

Villiers so that's fracking, HS2 and new runways and no worries for ecology or climate change

I still haven't heard via MSM.  I can't help but think it paints a fairly accurate picture of the general ambivalence (despite grand political promises and apparently empty gestures) towards environmental awareness.

 

What a lost opportunity.  With public engagement and awareness via recent protests probably at an all time high, it "should" have been an obvious area to attract greater attention.   

[Mark J]

2 hours ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

I still haven't heard via MSM.  I can't help but think it paints a fairly accurate picture of the general ambivalence (despite grand political promises and apparently empty gestures) towards environmental awareness.

 

What a lost opportunity.  With public engagement and awareness via recent protests probably at an all time high, it "should" have been an obvious area to attract greater attention.   

I thought they just had it in for people less fortunate than themselves.