Health and safety checks for all families, says Nice
Inspections should be carried out on every household to make sure families are keeping children safe, according to government guidance.
That is the headline to this article
An extract;
All parents should allow health inspectors into their homes to check that windows, doors, cupboards and stairs do not pose a danger to children, it was claimed.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence said that every family with sons and daughters under the age of five should agree to a home safety assessment.
Is this what these people do all day, think how to enrage the people of this country and waste our money as well?
At least this is just a recommendation, for now.
The country does need to save money and I think this is one quango that we could do without, or at least trim it down severely.
Showing posts with label Health and Safety Stupidity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health and Safety Stupidity. Show all posts
Monday, 17 May 2010
Wednesday, 14 April 2010
Health and Safety Madness
I found this article through Ambush Predator on Twitter.
This is the headline to this article.
Bungling handyman puts ladder against branch he is sawing off... then sues bosses after breaking his foot
An extract
A handyman fell from a tree in a 'Laurel and Hardy moment' after he sawed off a branch that he had leaned his ladder against - and is now suing his bosses for his mistake.
Peter Aspinall, 64, a part-time handyman at a hotel, had climbed up a ladder to prune a sycamore tree.
But as he had leaned it against the branch he was sawing off instead of the tree trunk, he tumbled to the ground when the branch broke.
Didn't the guy realise where he was putting the ladder and what might happen?
An extract;
Lawyers claimed it had been a 'Laurel and Hardy moment' but the 14ft fall broke Mr Aspinall's heel. He damaged his ligaments and spent 10 days in hospital.
Health and safety officials began investigating and discovered that bosses at the 200-year old Egerton House Hotel near Bolton, Greater Manchester had failed to carry out at a risk assessment.
They said hotel bosses should have given training to workers on where to place the ladder.
'They should of given training on where to place the ladder.' I have two words, COMMON SENSE. Where was this guy's common sense.
An extract;
The 29-bedroom hotel, where rooms cost £69 a night, was fined £1,000 and ordered to pay £1,000 council costs and a £15 victim surcharge by magistrates in Bolton.
It pleaded guilty to breaching health and safety regulations by failing to undertake risk assessments for employees working in the hotel gardens.
I understand having risk assessments for certain companies, eg chemical plants and engineering firms, but training to put a ladder against a tree, oh come on.
No one can be that thick to put a ladder against a branch that you are actually going to cut off. Well this Peter Aspinall guy was.
Health and safety is needed in certain areas, but how long is it till we have to do risk assessments before we do everyday things, like breathing.
Sometimes I feel like if a health and safety officer started talking to me about risk assessments, I will ask him the risk assessment of him being floored by me if he continued to talk rubbish health and safety regulations that is just common sense to the ordinary person.
This is the micro management stupidity that has come in over the last 13 years. Labour has stopped us from being a free thinking people.
I'd hate to think what Britain would be like after 5 more years under Labour.
This is the headline to this article.
Bungling handyman puts ladder against branch he is sawing off... then sues bosses after breaking his foot
An extract
A handyman fell from a tree in a 'Laurel and Hardy moment' after he sawed off a branch that he had leaned his ladder against - and is now suing his bosses for his mistake.
Peter Aspinall, 64, a part-time handyman at a hotel, had climbed up a ladder to prune a sycamore tree.
But as he had leaned it against the branch he was sawing off instead of the tree trunk, he tumbled to the ground when the branch broke.
Didn't the guy realise where he was putting the ladder and what might happen?
An extract;
Lawyers claimed it had been a 'Laurel and Hardy moment' but the 14ft fall broke Mr Aspinall's heel. He damaged his ligaments and spent 10 days in hospital.
Health and safety officials began investigating and discovered that bosses at the 200-year old Egerton House Hotel near Bolton, Greater Manchester had failed to carry out at a risk assessment.
They said hotel bosses should have given training to workers on where to place the ladder.
'They should of given training on where to place the ladder.' I have two words, COMMON SENSE. Where was this guy's common sense.
An extract;
The 29-bedroom hotel, where rooms cost £69 a night, was fined £1,000 and ordered to pay £1,000 council costs and a £15 victim surcharge by magistrates in Bolton.
It pleaded guilty to breaching health and safety regulations by failing to undertake risk assessments for employees working in the hotel gardens.
I understand having risk assessments for certain companies, eg chemical plants and engineering firms, but training to put a ladder against a tree, oh come on.
No one can be that thick to put a ladder against a branch that you are actually going to cut off. Well this Peter Aspinall guy was.
Health and safety is needed in certain areas, but how long is it till we have to do risk assessments before we do everyday things, like breathing.
Sometimes I feel like if a health and safety officer started talking to me about risk assessments, I will ask him the risk assessment of him being floored by me if he continued to talk rubbish health and safety regulations that is just common sense to the ordinary person.
This is the micro management stupidity that has come in over the last 13 years. Labour has stopped us from being a free thinking people.
I'd hate to think what Britain would be like after 5 more years under Labour.
Sunday, 10 January 2010
The Health and Safety Idiots are at it again.
Read this article and ask yourself if these health and safety idiots are actually living in the same reality we live in.
Here is a quote from the article;
Heavy snow, low temperatures and a lack of gritting mean pavements throughout the country are too slippery to walk on safely. Hospitals have been struggling to cope with rising numbers of patients who have broken bones after falling on icy paths.
Yet the professional body that represents health and safety experts has issued a warning to businesses not to grit public paths – despite the fact that Britain is in the grip of its coldest winter for nearly half a century.
Under current legislation, householders and companies open themselves up to legal action if they try to clear a public pavement outside their property. If they leave the path in a treacherous condition, they cannot be sued.
Councils, who have a responsibility for public highways, say they have no legal obligation to clear pavements.
What can i say to that.
They say you cannot be sued if you leave the path in a treacherous condition, i doubt that very much. I am pretty sure you will be sued either way.
If you have a spillage on the floor where you work and don't mop it up and someone slips and falls hurting themselves, you can get sued.
If there is ice on a public pathway where you work and you don't clear it, and someone slips and falls and hurt themselves, you won't be sued
I know they are two different circumstances, but how can you be sued for one and not the other. You have two situations where someone might slip and fall, but you can only be sued in one of those situations.
What about shopkeepers who try and clear a path, in front of their shops. It is just common decency to try and look after their customers. Now they might be sued if they try and clear a path.
When will all this health and safety stupidity stop?
You have to do certain things to stop getting sued, but you also have to not do certain things to stop getting sued.
HELP!
Update;
Have a read of the Telegraph View on this article.
Here is a quote from the article;
Heavy snow, low temperatures and a lack of gritting mean pavements throughout the country are too slippery to walk on safely. Hospitals have been struggling to cope with rising numbers of patients who have broken bones after falling on icy paths.
Yet the professional body that represents health and safety experts has issued a warning to businesses not to grit public paths – despite the fact that Britain is in the grip of its coldest winter for nearly half a century.
Under current legislation, householders and companies open themselves up to legal action if they try to clear a public pavement outside their property. If they leave the path in a treacherous condition, they cannot be sued.
Councils, who have a responsibility for public highways, say they have no legal obligation to clear pavements.
What can i say to that.
They say you cannot be sued if you leave the path in a treacherous condition, i doubt that very much. I am pretty sure you will be sued either way.
If you have a spillage on the floor where you work and don't mop it up and someone slips and falls hurting themselves, you can get sued.
If there is ice on a public pathway where you work and you don't clear it, and someone slips and falls and hurt themselves, you won't be sued
I know they are two different circumstances, but how can you be sued for one and not the other. You have two situations where someone might slip and fall, but you can only be sued in one of those situations.
What about shopkeepers who try and clear a path, in front of their shops. It is just common decency to try and look after their customers. Now they might be sued if they try and clear a path.
When will all this health and safety stupidity stop?
You have to do certain things to stop getting sued, but you also have to not do certain things to stop getting sued.
HELP!
Update;
Have a read of the Telegraph View on this article.
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