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Well got to the end of the week at last. Workload was intense so decided to look on the IOSH forums and saw "Why the hate" topic. It has been one of those weeks and I am beginning to think why do we care. I took on a position that is underpaid (the majority of the workforce I deal with are on higher salaries) but still I worked hard to gain the qualifications not to mention the financial cost in getting them.
I should have been a banker! You're hated but still get a decent pay packet!
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Bankers, recruitment consultants, estate agents...and us :(
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Firestar, you think you have it bad? You should try and be a union H&S Officer for a day!!!!!!
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Well now (for me) retirement is on the horizon, it would appear the next target is the lazy pensioners !
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Firestar - I can't resist responding to your comment about bankers getting "decent pay packets". Judging by their obsession with bonuses, it seems that bankers think they're underpaid while the rest of us think their levels of pay and bonuses are downright obscene. However I will resist the temptation to write any more about bankers because it would be lengthy and probably infringe one or more forum rules!
Anyhow, people shouldn't judge themselves simply by pay, status and/or material wealth. Working in OS&H doesn't bring great wealth for most of us, but surely it's rich in terms of interest, variety and generally being a worthwhile occupation.
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Graham Bullough wrote:Firestar - I can't resist responding to your comment about bankers getting "decent pay packets". Judging by their obsession with bonuses, it seems that bankers think they're underpaid while the rest of us think their levels of pay and bonuses are downright obscene. However I will resist the temptation to write any more about bankers because it would be lengthy and probably infringe one or more forum rules!
Anyhow, people shouldn't judge themselves simply by pay, status and/or material wealth. Working in OS&H doesn't bring great wealth for most of us, but surely it's rich in terms of interest, variety and generally being a worthwhile occupation.
And hopefully educating some persons into realising their own H&S when at work....its a bit like nursing...thankless but worth while (or it is for me)
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Graham, all very well but the 'richness' of variety etc doesn't pay the bills!
I sympathise with Firestar, particularly if you're paid less than the wider workforce.
To me it reeks of commitment issues. For example: As once said to me ' you can tell how much a company values Health and Safety by the car the Health and Safety Manager drives!'
Hang in there, now where did I put my bike?
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SP900308 wrote:
Hang in there, now where did I put my bike?
Bike! you gotta Bike!
Luxury!
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Thanks for the responses it made me day. LOL
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firestar - if thee typed yer response at #10 with an accent, then "me" would've been right fine!
Also, in response to walker's echo of the four nostalgic Yorkshiremen sketch, some of us wonder if he had been offered roller skates as a means of transport.
Incidentally, many years ago when I did a temporary summer job in a warehouse comprising a very long building, the assistant manager and one or two of the supervisors seemed quite happy to use bicycles to cover the distances. I think the bicycles had bells which were used occasionally but don't recall any flashing lights on the fork lift trucks. It was strictly forbidden for unauthorised staff, especially temps, to use or even try out the fork lift trucks (probably more to avoid expensive damage than to prevent injury), but it was great fun using the sit-on electric pallet trucks. Mind you, some of the pallet trucks weren't well maintained, so it was worthwhile knowing which ones had good brakes and which didn't.
That's enough history (nostalgia isn't what it used to be!?) - fast forward to nowadays. Adult size versions of children's push scooters are in fairly common use by some officials at Oslo Airport to cover distances inside the long terminal there. Though it makes me smile inwardly to see them, they do seem to use the scooters in an elegant manner. Does anyone know if such scooters are used at any airports or other workplaces in the UK? If not, I wonder what the response would be to introducing them in bids to reduce costs and 'carbon footprints'!
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