Originally Posted by
Macca
The whole health and safety thing is upside down IMO
Employers pay attention to it because they don't want to get sued, not because they give a toss if Jimmy in the warehouse gets hit by a forklift. Plenty more Jimmys where he came from. So it is a box-ticking exercise, not a safety exercise. As long as the boxes are ticked then they can demonstrate it is Jimmy's own stupid fault he got hit and they don't have to pay out.
Secondly they assume that people are idiots and so drag everything down to the lowest common denominator. So you have these training videos - don't climb wobbly ladders, don't leave boxes in the aisle for people to trip over and so on. If you don't already have a grasp of that you are too stupid to leave the house, let alone have a job. And if you do leave a box in the aisle and someone trips on it then it's their own stupid fault for walking around in a dream world instead of watching where they put their feet.
I've sat and watched the idiot video along with my colleagues on many occasions and then later in the same day I guarantee there will be a trip hazard which I will then pretend to fall over. So what did that achieve in practical terms? Nothing but a box ticked and as the law stands you can still sue the company even if they did show you the video. There's no application of common sense. Box ticking has replaced common sense.
Agree 100% - Is the whole health & safety thing driven by insurance companies who saw things going the same way as USA? Because non of them give a shiny shite about our welfare.
If I were ever in charge of the country (you never know) this would be one of the first things on my hit list. I would commission an advert saying "Had a trip or fall? Then watch where you're going, dickhead! And don't even think about suing - there's a new sheriff in town and he's not putting up with all that crap".
I don't know what we'd do with all the HSE paperclips then, but I suspect their favourite hobby is standing on train platforms with their bobble hats and little books of numbers. With Hi-Viz vests so the approaching train can see them, and a hard hat just in case it doesn't.
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