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My wife walked into a large high street retailer today to buy a pair of knitting needles as she has an urge to start knitting again. When she couldn't find any, the assistant told her that they stopped selling them quote 'for health & safety reasons' unquote!!!!!
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I'm not suprised, just the other day I heard of a very nasty incident where a young girl was seriously injured when she dropped a stitch and it fell onto her foot and broke he little toe. She was not wearing safety boots as she had failed to assess the need for PPE as she was totally unsupervised so the mother is now facing an inquiry by the police for child abuse. But don't worry she has written to Lord Young to seek his help and advice. Its what some may call going from the rediculous to the sublime.
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Well said Bob
T. I would add "someone in the sequence of events are telling a tall story"
Steve
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Thanks Steve, but just one thing, I am suprised that anyone would bother to add a comment on such a mick take approach to a stupid cause of lack of knitting needles. Why are they not honest enough to say, we dont get enough call for knitting needles these days so we dont stock them anymore, but you could try the local market? They still sell knitting needles and wool at a stall in the market in Newport close to me so why hide behind H&S. It makes my blood boil.
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Steve Sedgwick wrote:Well said Bob
T. I would add "someone in the sequence of events are telling a tall story"
Steve
'Twas ever thus. My mother recounted the story of going shopping for a washing up bowl in the '50s and being told that they were 'out of season'.
H&S is the new 'out of season'.
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Annoyed me when I saw a sign in a shop window once which said pushchairs couldn't be allowed in due to H & S laws. I was tempted to ask which law applied...
And some people wonder why we have such a hard time proving the benefits of good H & S measures.
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Wow - googling it livened up Friday morning.
http://www.google.co.uk/...lth+and+safety&meta=
OK so I can't have kitting needles, can I please have a massive knife, an axe, some bleach some lighter fluid and some matches instead???????
I had mini tweezers removed from my wallet on a flight, I was allowed to take a metal coat hanger tho!
In answer to the question - the whole world has gone mad, we just a bit of the blame...
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Lets keep this one going.
My son was once told that it was too windy to fly a kite.
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My local gym has a sign in the male changing room, before you gain access the toilets , reading "For health and safety reason shoes must not be worn beyond this point". Anyone for a paddle?
On from the toilets down a short corridor and round a corner is the shower area, I think the position of the sign hasn't really been thought through!
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Let's face it, health and safety has become an easy excuse, fuelled by the media. Can't be bothered to do something/stock something/make provision for something? Blame it on health and safety. Who's going to argue?
The only way to counter this malaise is to constantly challenge it whenever it rears its head. Acceptance merely gives it credence.
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On many shops, Ear's Pierced while you wait!
And there was me thinking i could pick them up later on!!
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I'm sure we've all heard this one - never witnessed it myself, but it was mentioned on the radio the other day:
'Please remove shirt before ironing'.
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teh_boy wrote:Wow - googling it livened up Friday morning.
http://www.google.co.uk/...lth+and+safety&meta=
OK so I can't have kitting needles, can I please have a massive knife, an axe, some bleach some lighter fluid and some matches instead???????
I had mini tweezers removed from my wallet on a flight, I was allowed to take a metal coat hanger tho!
In answer to the question - the whole world has gone mad, we just a bit of the blame...
teh, why would you want to have a metal coat hanger in your wallet?
Steve
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Went to buy a sofa in a well known store and was told not to sit on the sofas or chairs due to H&S, had to laugh and asked what fool told them that, promptly asked to leave.
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I remember some guy not being able to get for k'andles - was that H&S?
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Geoff
that was B4 H&S good old days, showing age now, always look on the bright side
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My ex boss stopped someone from using a screwdriver to fix their desk, because they had not received training on the equipment. The gentleman had to wait for site services to fix it.
This was from a H&S professional too.
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Sems there are many funny stories about how H&S is seen by the media. But, how do we as proffessionals combat this dangerous myth thing. I come across many individuals who use this sort of thing to cry down real H&s issues. I know many dont understand the facts and far to many read a newspaper and believe what is written to be true, but how is this being challenged? IOSH and the HSE have conducted many things to try and counter such silly things, but what is being done with the general public to educate them that newspapers always print things in a very narrow way which convinces people of things that are not only untrue but downright stupid? Answers on the back of a stamped addressed envelope please.
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A relative was last week instructed not to use water wings for students leaning to swim, when she asked why she was told " For elf and safety reasons"
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xRockape wrote:A relative was last week instructed not to use water wings for students leaning to swim, when she asked why she was told " For elf and safety reasons"
It's safer to let them drown?
Or perhaps the risk of someone suffering a heart attack inflating them?
Or perhaps there is a risk of catching a virulent infection from them if attempting to inflate them, despite them having been in chlorinated water?
Or the serious danger of friction burns on the arms from wearing them?
I'm struggling here................
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I'm still convinced that these rules, guidance whatever you want to call them are not put in place by H&S but are caused by ambulance chasers and courts who actually listen to these claims. Some of the paperwork asked for in disclosure lists from solicitors is ridiculous. I no longer even prescribe to the 'common sense' approach to safety. Try arguing in court that the task only required a common sense approach and see how far it gets you.
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Actually things may be changing - I attended a County Court as witness for my client a couple of weeks ago. Ex-employee claiming for falling off a step-ladder doing job 1 metre above ground for less than 1 minute (holding bit of plastic weighing 1kg for mate to nail). Ladder had been used to access adjacent platform for most of day. For this job claimant's barrister stated that safer options would have been (in order) a) Cherry Picker, b) scissor lift c) 5 metre warehouse steps and d) mobile tower. He lost his case (and no win, no fee mob lost £8000). The claimant had assumed, as so often happens, insurers would settle to save money hence totally unprepared for court.
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