Health and safety gone mad!????

Tony Doodles

Last night i was shown the following article, has the country gone health and safety mad? what do you make of this idea, England prepare yourself for the first virtual bonfire!.....

what else are we over reacting about??? when i was at school every child in the class shared the same wooden recorder ......I turned out ok. :D

maybe it's just the UK.......

Psychotic Neurotic · Posted: Tue 31st Oct, 2006 3:00 pm Post subject:

Thats so painfully, painfully overdoing it.

I'm with the air cadets, and health and safety is god. The H&S Manual is the Bible. And we all hate it.
When I went to Zambia to work on a building site, where the Brits were the only ones with gloves, we couldn't stop thinking about how health and safety would be having a field day (3 weeks!) over all the hazards on the site. But what do you do when they just don't have the money for safety equipment?
All it takes is a keen eye and to be alert. If you don't think it's safe, don't do it. If you do it, it's your own fault.

Live and let live.

JasonBelivers · Joined: 13 Oct 2006 Posts: 182 Location: hereford/CFMBC

do it but its your fault and just take responsibility

Felixwah · Posted: Thu 31st May, 2007 11:24 am Post subject:

just re reading this thread n working as an engineer who will eventually go on site my company is health and safety mad but within good reason, many ppl have died whilst working on site 71 last year and almost 400 near deaths. half of these were due to other people not taking it seriously for example one person couldnt be bothered to bind the wrapping of a 2ton concrete block on the 6thfloor of a site it came loose fell off and just crushed a superviser dead just like that, health and safety is common sense and should be enforced in the workplace but ppl dont take it seriously when they should but. out of work tis different seriously that bonfire is a step to far, like when then banned conquers in schools n yo-yo's wtf what next a ban on shoelaces? lol off subject its like when the muslims wanted to basically ban xmas cos it offended them im not a racist but that pished me right off.

rant over

sxylou123 · Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 482 Location: Margate, Kent

I think the words health and safety make us sound stupid, its like they took away evryone common sence and replaced it with a manual of things to look out for and do, I mean I dont have to be told that people can slip on wet surfaces and that large things can fall when unsecured, its just blatant common sence. If i see something dangerous I move it or tell someone about it for all the good it does me.

Give the people their common sence back and they might have more of an incentive to use it.

Look at the lazy nation, reading their H&S bible, democratic pigs. USE YOUR NOGGIN.

Daedra · Posted: Thu 07th Jun, 2007 8:13 am Post subject:

jesus thats pretty hardcore article >.<
and yeah when the conkers got banned i was not impressed in the slightest!!
we're not that saftey orientated at work, even tho we should be sumtimes, although one thing that will always make me laugh was when this guy i absolutely hated fell down a hill on a construction site hhhehehe:P

kai89 · Joined: 29 Dec 2006 Posts: 113 Location: Nottingham

i saw an article in a paper at work that said the schools have now banned the following games / activies cos of H&S

* Hide and seek
* Daisy Chains
* wearing goggles in swimming
* tag
* and loads of other silly things

also schools arent allow to say fail / wrong any more, now its deferred success, and its now not allowed to raise your hand in class, because shy pupils dont answer as much, basically everything is noncompetative and everyone is equal, in scotland during games of football (in school matches) if a team is losing by more then 0-5 at half time then the score goes back to 0-0.

I really dont see the point in any of this, its rediculess, i mean, banning daisy chains, psh, what are they going to do with them, hang themselves!!!!!! nutty

Timmayx · Joined: 17 Sep 2006 Posts: 264

I dunno, maybe it's offensive to those kids who have hayfever and can't make em.

I was glad I was a kid when I was. No one gave a crap about what we did really, they only banned us from play power rangers, and that was just because a girl broker her arm.

WTF, can't wear goggles while swimming? Forget that. I always wore them because otherwise my eyes stung like hell and I'd be rubbing them the whole time, which I'm sure is very bad for your eyes.

Tag and hide and seek? GAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

The government and the small proportion of whinney modern parents who get everything banned, need to learn that kids are kids. They play rough, they get hurt. They'll come crying to their parents for a bit of sympathy, and in 5 minutes, they'll be back out again as if nothing had happened.

Felixwah · Posted: Mon 11th Jun, 2007 8:21 am Post subject:

i remember when they banned pogs at my school that really yeanked my chain.

If they take away the competitiveness at school they students are not gonna drive themselves to be better. For example if we lost a rugby match we would make sure we trained hard enough to beat em next time not like its ok the score is levelled at half time anyway.

pffffffff

sxylou123 · Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 482 Location: Margate, Kent

Felixwah · Posted: Tue 12th Jun, 2007 2:04 pm Post subject:

YAY to bad splelling!! yeh they had the loony toon pogs they sucked!!!! but roadrunner is ace lol. infact i still have my entire pog collection im gonna keep it until im like 50 n sell em as antiques lol

sxylou123 · Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 482 Location: Margate, Kent

I found about a handfull a few years back, they were all stuck together with chewing gum, I dont know what I was thinking there but I cleaned em up and put em away somwhere.

Id like to be able to show my kids what I did when I was young one day. Be like my oldies except I wont be bringing out the slipper! We had it hard *shudder*

Felixwah · Posted: Tue 12th Jun, 2007 2:17 pm Post subject:

lol, puts on old decreped voice *back in my day we used to trade circular pieces of cardboard with pictures on it, 100's i had! 100's! and when we were older we swung about big balls of fire whilst listening to hardcore dance music"
grandchild : "thats classical music grandad its borrrrrring, im gonna play with my new laser gun and cut down some trees"

gosh the youth of today eh

sxylou123 · Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 482 Location: Margate, Kent

LOL OMG what are we becoming

No the cutting down of trees by laser will be prohibited due to health and safety laws. The kids will need forms for that, not to mention protective bubbles.

Ha we will probably have virtual trees by then.

Scion · Joined: 12 Jun 2007 Posts: 10 Location: Oxford UK

OMG Deferred Success, that's just failure but in a really polite way. That's ridiculous, you pass or fail a test you don't deffer success do you? Sorry just started work so am grumpy hehe.

Sci x

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