Do As We Say,

not as we do,

must be the message coming from the Health & Safety Executive as an appalling number of accidents were recorded in their offices over the past year, I mean what idiot put a 'caution wet floor', sign on the floor with out putting a 'do not fall over the wet floor sign' in front of it? because some one working in the Health & Safety office suffered a groin strain when he did indeed fall over the sign! also training for the officers seems to be sorely lacking, like the person who complained that they cut two fingers after putting them into a fan, in the Birmingham office, an employee cut his finger on a smashed plate, and a man in Glasgow was treated after a balloon burst in his face, dam dangerous things those balloons, if ever there was a case for banning them at kids parties this must be it,

pity the poor worker in Sheffield was struck down by ‘severe muscular stiffness to shoulder’ after sitting in a cold draft, let me see close the window, move to anther table? too much like common sense, all of the above from a group of people that collectively have produced such works as, ‘Preventing Slips and Trips at Work’, ‘Safe Use of Ladders and Stepladders’ and ‘The Importance of Floor Cleaning’ pity they do not practice what they preach, I wonder how much they fined themselves for putting their work colleagues in such mortal danger, because if any of these things happened in your company you would be in court!

while health and safety legislation is predominantly aimed at the workplace, the UK has become flooded with killjoys applying the principles to often harmless tasks and events, it has seen schoolchildren banned from playing conkers and ordered to use sponge footballs instead of the more ‘dangerous’ leather-made ones – not to mention an end to the traditional sports day sack race, Wimbledon officials even closed Murray Mount in the wet weather in case people slipped, Ministers have ordered a review, the fact of the matter is that outside the workplace life can never be risk free, if it was can you imagine how boring life would be?