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Posted By Al..
I received an e-mail drawing my attention to this item on the IOSH industry news pages:
http://www.iosh.co.uk/in...?go=news.viewfeed&id=890
It was titled:
'Dangerous' iPods banned from work
I couldn't work out if it was meant to be a report on over-the-top risk aversion or a report on good risk management practice. The title with "dangerous" in quotes and the fact that it was reported at all made me think it was intended to be the former. However I thought the "banning" was a most sensible action to take given the circumstances in the company as described by their spokesman.
Any comments? What are readers intended to conclude?
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Posted By Ron Hunter
Another example of IOSH merely taking the press association article and posting it 'as is'.
The hungry monster being fed again.
Sad that IOSH falls into the very trap it seeks to eradicate.
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Posted By Jay Joshi
Ron,
This is the news feed from the press association.
I do not see any over the top elf n' safety issue here--except that this should not be "news" at all--it is a common sense decision based on the information supplied
In my organisation, we also do not permit the use of mobile phones when undertaking laboratory/operational tasks that require concentration. We do allow radio music where it does not affect hearing of alarms, but do not allow use of headphones/earpieces for music as it can affect listening to alarms etc and also divert concentration.
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Posted By martinw
I don't know if we are at risk within the profession of showing the same knee jerk reaction that certain newspapers demonstrate when being fed a line. A lot of the time, as Jay says quite rightly above, once you look into it you can see that there is more to the story than was originally thought and that it was actually rather sensible. However, Ron(sorry Ron this is not a dig at you, just using it as an example) seems to be doing what I have done many times before when shown a stupid elf 'n' safety conkers bonkers story('Oh for goodness sake, are they really so gullible that they believe that this came from reasonable H&S advice' etc etc). Are we at risk of becoming the Daily Mail in reverse due to our righteous indignation at stupid stories?
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Posted By Andy Petrie
There are always two sides to these stories, personally when I need to concentracte I use my ipod, largely to play some chilled music and block outside the outside world. This is of course when I am sat at a desk in a relatively quiet office.
If I was working in an engineering department I would likely have it turned up really loud to block out other noise, and by doing so increasing the risk of not noticing alarms, form lifts etc.
Whether loud music stops people concentrating, well I think that's down to each indvidual really and the type of music they listen to.
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