Topic: Health and safety monkey business

[ACE]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1041919/Organ-grinder-toy-monkey-banned-busking-health-safety-reasons.html


We should never have stopped shoving kids up chimneys, that where it all started!

[betula]

 ;D

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

however dangerous his show is, I don't think there's much chance of anyone laughing themselves to death

[ceres]

Health and safety police are everywhere.

We have a little cafe on our site.  It's open 2 hours on a Sunday morning for plotholders, not to the general public.  We donate homebaking and a couple of volunteers boil a kettle to make cups of tea and coffee and the money goes into site maintenance and improvement.

The environmental health police decided we are a 'catering establishment' so would have to be inspected.  We got a list of faults a yard long and a one star rating - "poor level of compliance with food safety legislation. Much more effort required."

We have no hot running water, no separate hand washing facilities for 'catering staff', no separate toilet for 'catering staff', our homebaking isn't labelled with a full list of ingredients, there is no cleaning rota......... - you get the picture.

The world has gone mad.

[littlebabybird]

Ceres,
It may have changed by now, but in the past you would have been ok to charge the plot holders
a fee to enter the cafe and give them the tea and cake
lbb

[asbean]

At least they didn't cite some "european law" as a reason.  This business of risk assessment is money in the pockets of all those involved in the insurance business, somehow crossed the Atlantic some years ago and the bandwagon jumped upon with delight.

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

there was a letter in the Telegraph from a Health and Safety bloke from the 70's to show how things were different then. He'd found an old accident report form which went like this :

Incident : Worker tripped over oil drum
Outcome : Worker fractured ankle
Recommendation : In future, worker should watch where he puts his feet

[gtm41658]

keeps me in a job though!!

[SamLouise]

an old accident report form which went like this :

Incident : Worker tripped over oil drum
Outcome : Worker fractured ankle
Recommendation : In future, worker should watch where he puts his feet

[gtm41658]

Rhubarb Thrasher....quite agree....it's called common sense....an art a lot of H&S people lack these days therefore giving the profession a bad name!!!!
However a lot of it has to do with the insurance companys and so called ambulance chasers...as a recent post states something from across the water!!!!!

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

in the stores area at the University where I worked there was a Health and Safety poster of a bloke not paying the slightest attention to where he was going, and round the corner coming in the opposite direction was another bloke with a trolley load of gas cylinders...course our Health and Safety person had put this poster on a corner of a corridor, and every time you went past the poster you couldn't help staring at it just as you turned the corner........

[tonybloke]

what's all the fuss about? a risk assessment isn't hard to put together! ;)