Surfing the rubbish that is Freeview last night when I caught the end of a news programme. They were discussing lead at work and specifically criticising the HSE for failing to carry out health surveillance on whole groups of workers that come into contact with lead (they particuarly noted scrapyard workers are ommitted from routine blood tests).

The item also stated that the HSE has been told by occupational health specialists that the safe limit for lead needs to be lowered as there is significant evidence that lower levels are causing serious health problems for a substantial body of workers. Lower levels have been set in other EU countries.

What I found quite interesting was the HSE response, which was that the legislation and guidance we have in the UK falls within the EU Directive.

That made me laugh considering the fact that the HSE is well known to goldplate our legislation and guidance to take it beyond what the EU Directives require. Obviously not in this case!!

Just wondered if anyone else saw it and had any opinons. I missed the beginning of the report so don't know what was said that I missed.

For some reason the forum is deleting the word that is S C R A P?????

Would you use that potty mouth with your mother?

That's funny, Claire. I thought you were referring to shipyard workers and couldn't work out why hips were so offensive!

The item couldn't have anything to do with the current scrapping between politicians and scientific advisers, could it? Why suddenly now does it become headline news?

And it is nice to see that artificial intelligence is still someway in the future :)

Must admit I had assumed it was shipyard rather than skrapyard. This automatic deletion of words could make the site quite annoying if they aren't careful.

LOL!

Clairel, we'll look into it for you. In the meantime you could use the work "junk".

Jon

Waht channel was the programme on, clairel?
As it was Freeview there's a fair chance it will be repeated a few times!

I wonder if this forum allows weigh[expletive deleted]chers?

Here is a reasonably outlined article on the subject if you wish to delve further into the detail.

http://www.hazards.org/lead/index.htm

If the system is capable of spotting the spelling of certain words, why can't we have a 'spool chucker'?

At least its not throwing in its own alternatives. Another forum I use repalced 'C-O-C-K-I-N-G' with 'coconutting' ....On a forum about shooting!

OK so they've fixed it already? Well done the web team!

Steve