Health & Safety Madness!!!
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Just been speaking with our postie at work and I joked that the Post Office must be keeping the world's elastic band economy afloat due to the number of band securing this morning's mail delivery. He responded that they (by which I assmume he meant his sorting office) spend £20,000 a year on elastic bands - they are not allowed to re-use them because of health & safety regulations!
I went to our local sorting office one morning in November to pick up the post for the office. There was only one manager there and no post had been sorted, he explained that the heating was broken and the union rep had advised them to go home. He couldn't explain how the poor little lambs manage to deliver door to door in cold weather but cannot work indoors if the heating is broken 
judas said:Shame they can't be arsed to throw them away rather than just toss them on the ground...
Just been speaking with our postie at work and I joked that the Post Office must be keeping the world's elastic band economy afloat due to the number of band securing this morning's mail delivery. He responded that they (by which I assmume he meant his sorting office) spend £20,000 a year on elastic bands - they are not allowed to re-use them because of health & safety regulations!
Had a classic health & safety moment at the weekend.
Been DIY'ing all day, so dusty & flecked with paint, and too lazy to cook, I offered to take the Mrs, her sister & other half to the pub at the end of our road (a Bass foody type pub) to have a mediocre meal.
Nice evening, and combined with my looking like a grubby herbert, we elected to sit outside in the garden to eat. It was 6.25pm & not a cloud in the sky.
We ordered, and were treated like criminals because we were outside & thus to pay upfront for the food (another rant there...), and waited for 15 mins.
We were then told by the waitress that the manager had told her that no food could be served outside after 6pm because it gets dark & the serving staff might fall over in the garden.
I took issue with this because:
a) they have effing floodlights in the garden,
b) it doesn't get dark until past 8pm
c) there is nothing to fall over in the garden. It's flat lawn with bloody great benches there..
What's the world coming to when you cant even sit in the pub garden eating lest the little darlings that work there may fall over...
Thanks all, I'm off for a lie down now...
Chris
Been DIY'ing all day, so dusty & flecked with paint, and too lazy to cook, I offered to take the Mrs, her sister & other half to the pub at the end of our road (a Bass foody type pub) to have a mediocre meal.
Nice evening, and combined with my looking like a grubby herbert, we elected to sit outside in the garden to eat. It was 6.25pm & not a cloud in the sky.
We ordered, and were treated like criminals because we were outside & thus to pay upfront for the food (another rant there...), and waited for 15 mins.
We were then told by the waitress that the manager had told her that no food could be served outside after 6pm because it gets dark & the serving staff might fall over in the garden.
I took issue with this because:
a) they have effing floodlights in the garden,
b) it doesn't get dark until past 8pm
c) there is nothing to fall over in the garden. It's flat lawn with bloody great benches there..
What's the world coming to when you cant even sit in the pub garden eating lest the little darlings that work there may fall over...
Thanks all, I'm off for a lie down now...
Chris
chris.mapey said:
What's the world coming to when you cant even sit in the pub garden eating lest the little darlings that work there may fall over...
Sounds more like the pub protecting themselves against a possible claim from their staff if they tripped up
I think a lot of these rules are more to protect the employer than the employee
Don't get me started on employee rights.....
I ordered some new alloys (very nice 17" Enkies by the way) and on delivery three had some damage. I called the supplier and the matter was dealt with very quickly a courier was dispatched with another three and would pick up the old ones - all very good.
The courier arrives, leaves the van at the bottom of the drive and then states "I won't carry the boxes" My missus (now 8 months preggers) phones me.
I told her not to touch the boxes and that "delivered to the door means exactly that. If the courier does not want to carry packages SHE SHOULD GET ANOTHER JOB.
What is the world comming to?
I ordered some new alloys (very nice 17" Enkies by the way) and on delivery three had some damage. I called the supplier and the matter was dealt with very quickly a courier was dispatched with another three and would pick up the old ones - all very good.
The courier arrives, leaves the van at the bottom of the drive and then states "I won't carry the boxes" My missus (now 8 months preggers) phones me.
I told her not to touch the boxes and that "delivered to the door means exactly that. If the courier does not want to carry packages SHE SHOULD GET ANOTHER JOB.
What is the world comming to?
The post office spends £3M a year on elastic bands and the manufacture of them would cease if they stopped becasue they account for a third of sales. All the points made here are about the misinterpretation of HASAW. Dick heads are dick heads in every walk of life including safety managers.
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