I’ve seen a lot worse in many UK industrial sites
Yep, me too! Remember when I started work as a teen, the boss said to me “most of the job is just common sense, but you’d be surprised how many people lack any at all”. Over the years, I’ve worked in or had to visit, so many potentially dangerous work environments, and some of the stuff I’ve seen beggars belief.
(latest was a 14 tonne excavator working 10cm from the edge of a sheer sided 3 metre deep unsupported hole in soft ground – with 3 guys working in the bottom of the hole, and bits of the top edge of the side falling in!!…(site supervisor just watched completely oblivious….t**t!))
IME, most of the people that come up with the ‘Health & Safety gone mad’ comments work in nice safe office type environments, and have no appreciation of how bl**din’ thick some people are.