it's health and safety gone mad!

nochexxx

nochexxx

harco pronting
I hate health & safety and the Nazis that instigate it. Ironically I was asked by my boss if I would like to represent our department by attending a monthly health & safety forum. Naturally I declined because I’d only feel like Mark E Smith on Newsnight.

Just the other day I had a run in with one such H&S nut. I had been asked to DJ at a wedding but the whole thing was almost called off because it would be a ‘health & safety’ issue having a live DJ use their in-house PA. However it would be ok to have a CD on in the background????????!!! If I hadn’t stepped in and explained this was completely nonsensical the organiser would have excepted this upper management decision. In the end they reluctantly agreed to allow me to play, however I soon discovered that I would be harassed further for having a double adapter plugged into a fourway and not gaffa taping my leads to the floor etc.
 
john eden

john eden

male pale and stale
Did they also make you wear goggles? :p

I think a lot of the more ridiculous stuff is people with too little knowledge and too much time on their hands.

Having said that, gaffa taping leads down is pretty sensible in my book. I guess that puts me on a par with the guards at Auschwitz, but there it is.
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
ascoltare said:
Just the other day I had a run in with one such H&S nut. I had been asked to DJ at a wedding but the whole thing was almost called off because it would be a ‘health & safety’ issue having a live DJ use their in-house PA. However it would be ok to have a CD on in the background????????!!!
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Maybe he'd heard lurid tales of DJs 'burning up the dancefloor', making the crowd go 'mental', things like that. :cool:
 
S

Shonx

Shallow House
We're not allowed kettles at work, so we've had a water heater/cooler installed which takes forever to heat water and then only makes about four drinks, not very useful in an office of 40+.

Amount of people scalding themselves in the ten years before the heater was installed = zero.
 
nochexxx

nochexxx

harco pronting
Mr. Tea said:
Maybe he'd heard lurid tales of DJs 'burning up the dancefloor', making the crowd go 'mental', things like that. :cool:
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yeah i should have doused both me and my 1210's in kerosene and lit a match while spinning disco inferno.
 
Grievous Angel

Grievous Angel

Beast of Burden
Yeah, it was Lithuanians, not Poles.

Anyway - see also - Eurocrat madness banning bent bananas. They're marketing standards.
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
Grievous Angel said:
Yeah, it was Lithuanians, not Poles.

Anyway - see also - Eurocrat madness banning bent bananas. They're marketing standards.
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Ah, but they're relaxing the rules on the appearance of lots of kinds of fruit and veg. It's common sense gone...er...sensible!
 
Slothrop

Slothrop

Tight but Polite
ascoltare said:
I hate health & safety and the Nazis that instigate it. Ironically I was asked by my boss if I would like to represent our department by attending a monthly health & safety forum. Naturally I declined because I’d only feel like Mark E Smith on Newsnight.

Just the other day I had a run in with one such H&S nut. I had been asked to DJ at a wedding but the whole thing was almost called off because it would be a ‘health & safety’ issue having a live DJ use their in-house PA. However it would be ok to have a CD on in the background????????!!! If I hadn’t stepped in and explained this was completely nonsensical the organiser would have excepted this upper management decision. In the end they reluctantly agreed to allow me to play, however I soon discovered that I would be harassed further for having a double adapter plugged into a fourway and not gaffa taping my leads to the floor etc.
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I think a lot of time "Health and Safety Regulations" (and similar things) are used as a cheap way of fobbing someone off when you have some other reason to not want them doing something eg you can't be arsed with the extra work it'll create or it sounds like it might involve fun and the management disaprove of fun. Or alternatively it's some peon who has an overactive imagination regarding what H&S rules there might be, isn't willing to take responsibility for breaking them, and can't be arsed going and checking.

Random bit of H&SGM is that my mum's company are sufficiently risk-averse that they're actually trying to ban employees from cycling to work. This is daft enough in itself, but what's even stupider is that they're a transport engineering company and a lot of their work is preparing green travel plans ie encouraging other people to cycle to work.
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
Slothrop said:
Random bit of H&SGM is that my mum's company are sufficiently risk-averse that they're actually trying to ban employees from cycling to work. This is daft enough in itself, but what's even stupider is that they're a transport engineering company and a lot of their work is preparing green travel plans ie encouraging other people to cycle to work.
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Christ almighty - what business of theirs is it what their employers do when they're not even at work yet? What total dickheadery.
 
mos dan

mos dan

fact music

stewart lee on people confusing political correctness and h&s legislation.

john that 'myths exposed' page is brilliant - amazing that to combat all the bad pr from the tabloids they felt it necessary!
 
nochexxx

nochexxx

harco pronting
our newly appointed 'health & saftey' officer disclocated his shoulder after falling from a 5 foot fence. it was st patricks day and he was trying to perform irish dancing to some bird whom he was trying to impress! :slanted:
 
Tentative Andy

Tentative Andy

I'm in the Meal Deal
Hopefully he filled out a risk-assessment first, otherwise he might not be able to claim on his Dancing Insurance. :slanted:
 
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