Pen Pushers At Health And Safty Put Our Lives At Risk Again!

in yet another example of madness over matter, some one with to much time on their hands has decided that HM Coastguard helicopter flight crews must fill out a form once an emergency has been declared, but before the helicopter can take off, after first filling out the date and time, the lead rescuer must outline the 'reason for journey' and detail any risks the team may encounter during the rescue, including both current and forecast weather conditions, the form then demands an account of any 'actions taken to mitigate risk' before the leader can fill in a 'yes' or 'no' as to whether the risk is 'acceptable', yesterday, one coastguard said: 'When we were first told about this, we simply couldn't believe it, when we get a call asking us to go out and rescue someone, we need to go there without delay, but they are asking us to waste time in the office filling out this stupid form, also, none of us really knows what we are realistically meant to fill in, I mean, how are we meant to know what risks there might be before we get there? and do they expect us to get a full weather forecast before we go out? do they really want us to find out what the traffic conditions will be? it's ridiculous, all we want to do is save lives, rescues by boat are not affected, it is just the latest in a series of bizarre health and safety rulings to affect the agency, which is a branch of the Department for Transport, in November last year, coastguards were told that they can no longer use flares during night-time rescue missions as they could 'cause considerable injury' even though the flares light up a large area and are considered essential for finding people at night, the Agency told its teams that they should use torches instead, madness shear and utter life threatening madness.