Posted By Ian Waldram
Well done Harry Hill - Ed was there as predicted, but your shark in the soapy bowl was MUCH better!

Posted By Nick Tracey
I was approached by the producers of this documentary as the director of a small health and safety consultancy and I asked my colleagues why us, maybe because we could be used to make our profession look as killjoys unrealistic and not in today's real world.

We declined because we suspected the producers would only show what they wanted and our message would not be what they wanted to hear or viewers would want to see and hear.

I guess my view is summed up in the following; As a young profession we are where we are,accountants are viewed as dull, would you attend their conferences?, Quantity Surveyors are perceived as failed accountants! architects do not live in the real world? engineers are non existent in the terms of excitement and I guess in the future bankers, share dealers and economists will come in for unprecedented criticism, but hey each of us has an objective and want to change the world we live in, looking back over 30 years in Industry have I influenced change in many organisations, yes it has been one step at a time, did I use PR television etc? no it was about being passionate and determined about what I wanted to achieve, sometimes I failed but that just made me more determined.

We do not need Channel 4 or any of the other parts of the media.

My simple view is,you should keep believing in what you wish to achieve and plug away at it, it's a journey that in all honesty many of us will never arrive at the destination, but we will have paved the way for our successors

Keep it simple,honest and enjoy.

Posted By Andy Bullen
First of all I should say no disrespect to the people featured in the documentary, they obviously had reasons for taking part.

Many people have said on this particular post, the producers approached us but we thought better not to do it.

Perhaps there lies the problem, not thinking. Whatever possessed the people featured to agree? It was only ever going to be edited in way one and that was to show the profession in a bad light. Perhaps a bit of naivety with respect to the media came into play.

Either way the programme was, boring, uninteresting, unenlightening, badly put together and had a terrible voice over.

If we all, as a profession get upset over a piece of TV, that even a non professional can see was so obviously set up, then maybe we deserve the image.

Posted By Paul Cook
Personally, I'm very grateful to the HSE for previously enforcing compulsory retirement at 60.

The positives of the conker sponsorship were soon hidden under the well secured carpet eagle-eyed Ed insisted (like many often trivial, insignificant hazards) on bringing to the film crew's attention.

The HSE however should be pleased, of everyone featured it was their man who seemed the most balanced and imho, had the greatest the inter personal skills. (Joiners-shop visit)

Stay safe out there folks and next time your dodging a 5mph death or avoiding a nasty crush between 2 reversing cars in Sainsburys whilst stocking up on the mammoth quantities of kitchen towel every home needs consider: Does our common law DoC extend to boring people to death ?

Paul

Posted By .e
Gave up reading the above. Does it all really matter? Next weeks documentary of 'I've turned my frontroom into the set of homer simpson' will soon take over the Homer Simpson appreciation society.

To be honest, I didn't watch the programme as in my field it's compulsory to have someone like me for many reasons as i'm sure with most of you, I need not go into.

Having worked in Security, I can recall programmes about meatheads and their attitude portrayed on TV documentaries; from personal experience some of the blokes have been the most softiest jelly babies ever worked with! their love hate tattoo's represented which colour opal fruits they prefered.

I'm sure the The F***ing Fulfords have said the same, every contestant on big brother, etc etc blah blah blah. Need I go on? 'Never let the facts get in the way of a good story'


I only saw the Harry Hill show, he was a legend.

One question, who was the dude who did the spilling water/knifes? Is he on here? Does he have his own website and do after dinner speaking?

Love to see him at the Brit awards, 'to the nominations to the safest band, goes to...'

Posted By Paul Leadbetter
The Times reference is not readily spotted; it is part of the article on 'Wallander'.

Paul

Posted By Jim Walker
It was a far better balanced programme than I expected.

I think you are all taking yourselves far too seriously and some replies here just reinforce the stereotype.

If someone made a channel 4 programme about accountants what would you expect? A laugh or the truth - if it was the truth you'd switch off after 10 minutes. If subsequently Accountants got shirty about the misrepresentation you would jeer them alongside everyone else.

You just need to be aware the H&S does not excite people and we are a bit weird in that respect.

Posted By mike morland
The few minutes that I watched did more for my insomnia that my doctor has done in years. Sadly I missed the end.

Mike

Posted By warderic
Didn't watch this documentary until Friday. Like some of you I was invited to make contact with the producers with a view of appearing; glad i didn't, otherwise I may have been chasing round my kitchen looking for hazards. As for the manual handling tool box talk, I don't think I would have been that patient with someone laughing at me. Don't think there has been any harm done, no one has mentioned the programme to me. That said lets move on, I'm sure there will be many other things in the future to ruffle our feathers