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I am less and less convinced that this sort of thing is funny.
These poor sods are doing the best they can in the face of official indifference from their employers and their local H&S enforcers.
We should be getting angry about this and asking why are human beings being put into these situations not laughing at them.
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Take a chill pill..................I am sure none of us would tolerate this.
I find the pic of the guy using the angle grinder with the bucket on his heed hilarious.
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It is something light hearted to show what can go wrong, however its the wonderful ways that people have clearly realised yes this is a hazard and these are our control measures; be it holding onto your mates ankles or a plastic bucket on a head!
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A Kurdziel wrote:I am less and less convinced that this sort of thing is funny.
These poor sods are doing the best they can in the face of official indifference from their employers and their local H&S enforcers.
We should be getting angry about this and asking why are human beings being put into these situations not laughing at them.
I think the humour in these pictures comes from being aghast that they happen at all. They are not funny in the sense of laughing at the individuals but people will doubtless laugh at the shock aspect and the "Why would they do that" question that immediately comes to most people's minds.
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Safety follows money. That's the message here. Ultimately these people will end up with a work related injury at some point. Safety, at this level, cannot continue without the inevitable happening. But let's not kid ourselves, safety is not an option in the vast majority of these situations.
There's no big pharma, construction or tech giants here and so there's no budget for safety. The level of safety that you can apply is directly proportional to the ability to pay for it.
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Although it's Friday, surely the answer to the Daily Fail would be "Please tell the readers how many of these pictures are from people working in the UK?"
That justifies our H&S system, in my opinion.
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OK - it's Friday and I'm hooked!
The examples provided by what is, in parts, and excellent news medium, are simply a reflection of the embedded, lazy production that routinely and automatically riducules any aspect of H&S that they can. I have no idea why this is on their agenda.
Give it 12 months and these examples will be cited by the same writers [I know - over dignifying them] as examples of "Elf & Saiftee" gone astray.
Can we just move on - it won't change and we should simply use these as the cartoons that they to illustrate just how unthinking certain classes of people actually are.
Frank Hallett
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I have seen these many times before. Some are just plain crazy, but others I feel show something else. If you take the man with the bucket on his head while he was grinding as an example. He is obviously a safety conscious individual, he has got a clear bucket and put on his head to help protect his eyes, I doubt very much this was issued by an employer. So he is doing the best he can to look after his own wellbeing.
Whereas in this country you provide means of protection and you then have to constantly remind them, cajole them, threaten them, persuade them, and plead with them to use it. Where this guy has taken it upon himself to look after his own eyes / face in the best way he can. These measures may or may not be effective, but the will is there, so hats off to him (so to speak).
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Don’t get me wrong...I love Laurel and Hardy but as Chris42 pointed out the guys in these pictures are in an unfortunate position and are likely to suffer some nasty injury sometime in the future.
On the other hand, I‘d love to post a video from our CCTV(can't data protection etc) showing one of our staff trying to “beat the barriers” at out site entrance and getting it wrong and ending getting a bump on the head. How we laughed! The guy knew what he was doing and took a calculated risk but got it wrong... that’s comedy
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