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Post by jonjel on May 13, 2011 10:01:57 GMT 1
I am compelled to read all kinds of crap to do with the law and the workplace, but the latest couple are just too much.
A self appointed office gardener was asked to remove her bottle of Baby Bio as it was on a low shelf and might pose a hazard to other workers.
A tin of WD40 was banned from an office as there was no COSHH sheet available for it.
If the same bloody minded H&S official turns up here I will personally poison him. Preferably with Baby Bio. And when he leaves he will have a tin of WD 40 in the place the sun don't shine.
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Post by StuartG on May 13, 2011 10:55:10 GMT 1
Aerosols to him!
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Post by jonjel on May 13, 2011 11:14:08 GMT 1
 Good one SG. I could rant on about similar things for a long time. Give some people a bit of authority and watch them change. We used to access some high shelves with a pallet (with hand rails) on the forklift. You could get the pallet level with the shelf and slide things off with ease and complete safety. Some bloody tit of a factory inspector banned that. Not approved for personal use. But we could use a ladder!
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Post by StuartG on May 13, 2011 11:51:37 GMT 1
You could of alternatively entitled Your thread 'Officious Britain'
The Health and Safety Act was good when it came out, it allowed me to make a proper guard for the shaping machine I used. [Three belt pulley to motor, overall/coat used to get caught, and I'd have to go around with the pulley for a time]. I still find it difficult to use a chuck guard for a drill press. ...and who hasn't left the chuck key in at some point. Ladders are like aspirin, if introduced now they wouldn't be allowed.
Cheers,
StuartG
I too could rant on....on
of·fi·cious/əˈfiSHəs/Adjective
1. Assertive of authority in an annoyingly domineering way, esp. with regard to petty or trivial matters.
2. Intrusively enthusiastic in offering help or advice; interfering.
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Post by principled on May 13, 2011 15:35:48 GMT 1
Jonjel
Colleges are inspected for good teaching etc about every four years. The year before I retired my dept. was inspected. One of the inspectors -I think his name was Dick Head- was a H&S "enthusiast". During the week of inspections he came to my office with some "grave H&S concerns". He said that the cabs of the new tractors were very high and I should therefore erect scaffolding round them to prevent students falling and that this should be in the risk assessment!
And don't get me started about risk assessments. Every task carried out, from using-say- a torque wrench to using a computer had to have a dedicated risk assessment, rigidly enforced by the H&S department, which had grown in 2 years from a lecturer doing it part time to a dept of 4 FT "H&S experts"!
The other weekend my son-in-law's brother accidentally set fire to some of his land here in Canada (The snow had melted and the grass was effectively dry and "dead " having been covered for 5 months with snow). We rushed off and got there just before the local fire brigade. When they arrived they asked us to check out for any pockets of fire and were totally relaxed about our presence. I suspect that had this been the UK, there would have been a police cordon several miles from the fire, the nearby gravel road would have been closed for the duration and the firefighters would have had to wear breathing apparatus before turning on their hoses.
H&S is a good idea, but the UK seems to have assumed that it should also replace common sense.
P
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Good one SG.