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Posted By Charley Farley-Trelawney
Well, I have seen it all now, whilst slurping on the tea this morning and glancing through the daily tabloids, I, to my horror started to read the article in the Sun about elf an safety, (wish I hadn't)
Councils banning the use of its workers using hand trowels to plant bedding plants, wrist strain, RSI WRULDs!!!!!!
Conker trees torn down to stop children throwing sticks to get the conkers!!!!!!!
And more much much more. If these professionals that are making these decisions to give H&S a poor reputation happen to stumble upon this topic and no doubt the follow ups, I say to you two things, oh maybe 3 or 4 then:
* HASAWA has been around for 30 years, it isn’t new and it has not reinvented the wheel.
* What about BEST BLOOMIN PRACTICE????
* Interpretation of the Acts & Regs is 9 tenths of the law.
So I say to all the people responsible for these ridiculous decisions, think about a new day job, and leave H&S issues to the people that fully understand them and are not frightened of them. As for the HSE allegedly admitting accident rates are still unchanged, there is a lot more of us now, crunch the numbers. And to the Sun Newspaper; if you insist on reporting on sensitive issues then please ask the other side of the fence, and make the report fair.
There that’s it, black coffee on the way 2 pills and I’ll be sorted; now do first aid have pills, or do I get them from................
Charles
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Posted By Adam Jackson
And the lesson of the day is.. don't go recklessly reading the Sun!
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Posted By Charley Farley-Trelawney
Ahhhh, touché touché!
Charles
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Posted By Anita Parkinson
we should all start taking it on the chin, most of us do an excellent job,
my kids will still go conkering, ride bikes with their coats around there heads, run in the play ground and play with worms and i will still use a trowel in the garden (when I eventually get there)
it doesn't make me angry anymore I don't put into place such rules, we work with what we have got, with best practice and more importantly with each other ( sure there is some biological hazard with working together - we will wait and see)
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Posted By Jasonjg
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"And the lesson of the day is.. don't go recklessly reading the Sun!"
Absolutely
Read the Sport instead
Risk management on alien abduction and comes with free RA for repetitive strain injury.
(Chuckles like an immature young man) Wait a minute; I am a young go happy man lol.
Serious now
Check out the HSE debate on this subject. Makes an interesting read.
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Posted By Mark Talbot
It is endemic...
At Silverstone this year thousands of people were being sent through the Luffield tunnel [the size of a large drain pipe] whilst five or six cars a minute used the road above. There were marshalls galour [to stop us crossing the road by moving one of the hundreds of barriers].
Their reason was, of course, H&S.
The real reason is that senior people are appointing very inexperienced, junior people, to take the burden.
We [the hoarde] explained our views and for one brief period we were allowed to cross the road, in the manner we all do every day of our lives.
I know there are risks associated with that, but I prefer those the stress of being herded, josstled, pick-pocketed, and worse of all, delayed.
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Posted By MichaelM
I have issued PPE in the form of safety glasses (with blacked out lenses) for those employees who insist on reading the Sun, Sport etc..
I know that PPE is the last resort but no matter how much I turned up the LEV, there were some of these so called newspapers that escaped being sucked into oblivion. Maybe I shouldn't use that phrase in the same response as the "Sport" !?!
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