New Posts For Thread: Health and Safety gone mad..............again!!!!http://www.mysun.co.uk/go/thread/view/88618/22659653/health-and-safety-gone-madagainFor two hundred years people have risked breaking necks and bones rolling cheese down a hill. Some might look on it as a stupid past time but others obviously and for reasons of their own make the trip every year. No more it seems. On the groundsWe have inherited the litigation culture from the States. Where all these comments about Brown somehow being to blame for this are coming from?Insurance is big bucks; "where there's blame.... where there's muck...."At the place I work when people havhttp://www.mysun.co.uk/go/thread/view/88618/22659653/health-and-safety-gone-madagain?post_id=399545981#399545981We have inherited the litigation culture from the States. Where all these comments about Brown somehow being to blame for this are coming from?Insurance is big bucks; "where there's blame.... where there's muck...."At the place I work when people havTue, 16 Mar 2010 04:14:22 -0500 So...you were talking b lo loks then...Same as you most of the timehttp://www.mysun.co.uk/go/thread/view/88618/22659653/health-and-safety-gone-madagain?post_id=399504397#399504397 So...you were talking b lo loks then...Same as you most of the timeMon, 15 Mar 2010 19:40:13 -0500Of course, the people who do embark in these dangerous games should be banned from accessing medical aid on the NHS.http://www.mysun.co.uk/go/thread/view/88618/22659653/health-and-safety-gone-madagain?post_id=399490861#399490861Of course, the people who do embark in these dangerous games should be banned from accessing medical aid on the NHS.Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:53:57 -0500I think the H&S pratts should be sent to Afghanistan to make sure Gordon Brown is enforcing all these safety rules.No loaded guns to be carried at anytime.   All explosives to be kept 2miles from the detonators.   All sharpened objects ( bayohttp://www.mysun.co.uk/go/thread/view/88618/22659653/health-and-safety-gone-madagain?post_id=399456745#399456745I think the H&S pratts should be sent to Afghanistan to make sure Gordon Brown is enforcing all these safety rules.No loaded guns to be carried at anytime.   All explosives to be kept 2miles from the detonators.   All sharpened objects ( bayoMon, 15 Mar 2010 12:42:14 -0500The whole thing stinks.  H&S poking their grimy little fingers into our pasttime now!  Did they do a risk assessment before the Dam Busters raid or any other part of the war..............NO NO NO  They just got on with the job.  H&S likehttp://www.mysun.co.uk/go/thread/view/88618/22659653/health-and-safety-gone-madagain?post_id=399446497#399446497The whole thing stinks.  H&S poking their grimy little fingers into our pasttime now!  Did they do a risk assessment before the Dam Busters raid or any other part of the war..............NO NO NO  They just got on with the job.  H&S likeMon, 15 Mar 2010 10:39:03 -0500Kuffdam, you sound like a health and safety officer, are you?http://www.mysun.co.uk/go/thread/view/88618/22659653/health-and-safety-gone-madagain?post_id=399436209#399436209Kuffdam, you sound like a health and safety officer, are you?Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:09:08 -0500The reason for legislation is that at work your employer is responsible for your well-being and safety. They have a duty of care to you as an employee, one which was fought for by Trade Unions over the decades. Therefore in order to demonstrate thishttp://www.mysun.co.uk/go/thread/view/88618/22659653/health-and-safety-gone-madagain?post_id=399436021#399436021The reason for legislation is that at work your employer is responsible for your well-being and safety. They have a duty of care to you as an employee, one which was fought for by Trade Unions over the decades. Therefore in order to demonstrate thisMon, 15 Mar 2010 08:04:37 -0500 So...you were talking b lo loks then...Obviously not - as quite a few posts here vindicate my way of thinking.   If there were no Health and Safety red tape the organisers would have been able to go ahead - which is what the news said.http://www.mysun.co.uk/go/thread/view/88618/22659653/health-and-safety-gone-madagain?post_id=399432609#399432609 So...you were talking b lo loks then...Obviously not - as quite a few posts here vindicate my way of thinking.   If there were no Health and Safety red tape the organisers would have been able to go ahead - which is what the news said.Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:35:49 -0500Like everything else under this Control freak dictatorial Nulab government and its egotistic leader, the pendulum of H&S has swung too far towards a nanny attitude.I mean a couse on climbing a step ladder! its getting rediculus. Most 'accidents'http://www.mysun.co.uk/go/thread/view/88618/22659653/health-and-safety-gone-madagain?post_id=399428497#399428497Like everything else under this Control freak dictatorial Nulab government and its egotistic leader, the pendulum of H&S has swung too far towards a nanny attitude.I mean a couse on climbing a step ladder! its getting rediculus. Most 'accidents'Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:33:29 -0500Health and Safety first. Well, if we're going to ban cheese rolling watchers, let follow this until its logical conclusion.Let's ban:Double-decker buses in case someone falls on the stairs.Theatre stages (unless there's a regulation fence between thahttp://www.mysun.co.uk/go/thread/view/88618/22659653/health-and-safety-gone-madagain?post_id=399416409#399416409Health and Safety first. Well, if we're going to ban cheese rolling watchers, let follow this until its logical conclusion.Let's ban:Double-decker buses in case someone falls on the stairs.Theatre stages (unless there's a regulation fence between thaSun, 14 Mar 2010 23:11:14 -0500