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molgrips - Member
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 - MemberHang 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?
[quote=PeterPoddy said]Anybody care to hazard a guess as to what are the most common accidents at work?
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?
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?
[i]Cambridge City seems to have suspended rubbish collection due to the very small amount of snow we now have.[/i]
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?
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 🙂