Is it not common sense to slide on ice? People fall on it because they try to walk. That’s a bit daft. Induce a slide and you are in control – making it really hard to slip. It’s far faster than tip-toeing about too. That’s some top drawer H&S right there.

she’s probably better off working from home for the day.

Since here job involved driving a ‘van’ I’d guess there’s not much to do from home… …quite possible that she is doing some sort of home help / meals on wheels / elderly care in which case of course there is the ‘risk’ to the employee (who will presumably manage to get to the shops etc to get her own message) versus the risk to vulnerable people left with no care…

On point 1, I’m quite able to open mine to put rubbish in…

sorry I wrongly assumed you were all going on about the weather down south… I thought the next ice age was coming. When its properly cold up here it takes a kettle of water to get into your bin.

On point 2, refuse collection has long been out sourced, so they’re not generic council workers who can be redeployed.

mmm… possibly ours were reabsorbed a few years back and are now council workers again. However, I wouldn’t be surprised if the waste contractor also gets involved in other bits (probably charge the council twice for the same people!).

H&S is basically ‘common sense’ written down, because some people are eejits and think they know it all and get hurt!

Almost …

H&S is basically ‘common sense’ written down, because some people are eejits and need someone else to blame when they hurt themselves so that they can get some free money.

Most of H&S is utter OTT nonsense.

At work, I’m permitted to use numerous flights of stairs with no assistance or special training, but I’m not supposed to carry a PC monitor 6 feet to another desk in case I kill dozens of colleagues and myself in the process.

We all seem to be missing the point here, seems to me simmy’s mum is a Yodel driver. Get her!!

From up there^

mitigating the exposure to that accident happening is down to us,

Not when you’re at work. It’s down to the employer then. It’s down to the employee to follow the health and safety related instructions given, (amongst other things).

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Anyone of you ranters stop to think about why we have H&S legislation?
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Ooh, I know the answer. It’s Europe and Scargill, isn’t it?

I’m not supposed to carry a PC monitor 6 feet to another desk in case I kill dozens of colleagues and myself in the process.

I dare you to post up the actual policy. I bet that’s neither the reason not the rule.

cumbersome H&S practices result in lower premiums

Yes in the early 00’s the bakeries group the mills, I worked for, had a hideously large liability premium. A vast amount of H&S work and management later (about 2 years worth) saw that reduced by half and 5% on their bottom line.

Done properly H&S saves money and empowers employees (especially the health bit)..

molgrips – Member

Hang on – what common sense should she be using here?

Should she NOT be walking cos it’s icy, or should she be walking anyway cos.. what.. it’s common sense to walk on ice? Or should she ask her employer for some shoe covers? Which of these is common sense?

If you have to ask, then you’re one of the many lacking in what has recently been re-branded as rare sense (TM)

Most of H&S is utter OTT nonsense.

No, it’s not. It’s put in place for people like you who think it is though.

It gets a bad name when it’s poorly applied by ‘little Hitlers’ or those that don’t understand.

Anybody care to hazard a guess as to what are the most common accidents at work?

Done properly H&S saves money and empowers employees

Correct 🙂

Anybody care to hazard a guess as to what are the most common accidents at work?

Is it slipping on a banana skin?

Anybody care to hazard a guess as to what are the most common accidents at work?

Getting hit with a plank when someone [carrying one on his shoulder] turns around without looking?

Is it where a bloke is carrying a wooden plank on his shoulder, is called by a workmate, turns around and hits another workmate in the head with the plank ?

Edit: Curse you jota! 😉

Anybody care to hazard a guess as to what are the most common accidents at work?

Is it something to do with saw blades and fork-lift trucks?

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-oomS4awqY[/video]

It probably involves the stairs

is it when you’re in the stationery cupboard and your tallywhacker gets caught in your flies?

bad aids from swans – trust me I’m an expert

it’s rebound injuries from folk pooing off scaffolding – or crapnel wounds as they’re known in the HSE

Anybody care to hazard a guess as to what are the most common accidents at work?

Scalding from hot drinks

Picking up something the wrong way and doing your back in

Car collisions caused by tiredness

Is it eye strain from reading all the H&S notices?

Anybody care to hazard a guess as to what are the most common accidents at work?

Accidentally stapling your foreskin to your eyelid whilst searching for a dropped contact lense?

Cambridge City seems to have suspended rubbish collection due to the very small amount of snow we now have.

Yep, really sensible to send a 25 ton bin lorry around untreated streets, especially when it needs to keep stopping! Probably the largest vehicle that routinely uses untreated roads…worth the cost of one squashed ped/cyclist or even car?

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkJO0SCFQLg[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsoMazWfH6w[/video]

should have fitted winter tyres.

Anybody care to hazard a guess as to what are the most common accidents at work?

falls or manual handling?

Look, no one ever got hurt by OTT H&S protocol did they, but they did without it 🙂