Health and Safety gorn mad - Wheeled chair ban.
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Dear All,
Part of my workplace is an electronics lab with a hard floor (vinyl tiles).
A recent H&S audit has banned wheeled chairs there. Far too dangerous, could slip and tip!
When I'm working in the lab I need to move my chair around far more than at an office desk.
My back is suffering from constantly stretching and/or moving the chair as I use the lab bench's various equipment.
How can I get a wheeled chair again?
Searching on t'internet suggests "soft" castors may be OK,
regards,
Jet
Part of my workplace is an electronics lab with a hard floor (vinyl tiles).
A recent H&S audit has banned wheeled chairs there. Far too dangerous, could slip and tip!
When I'm working in the lab I need to move my chair around far more than at an office desk.
My back is suffering from constantly stretching and/or moving the chair as I use the lab bench's various equipment.
How can I get a wheeled chair again?
Searching on t'internet suggests "soft" castors may be OK,
regards,
Jet
jet_noise said:
227bhp said:
Tackle why your back aches perhaps?
Age/bone mass loss/medically induced decrepitude. Nowt I can do about it!Office wheeled chairs are really designed for carpeted floors. If used on a hard surface there is a real risk of the chair rolling out from underneath you just as you are getting on. Accidents do occur in this way, and trained risk assessor a will certainly bring it up.
One thing you might do is investigate castors that lock up as soon as they come under load, like some library footstools do.
Of course, you won't be able to sit in the chair and zoom around the lab, but I am sure you never do that anyway ...
One thing you might do is investigate castors that lock up as soon as they come under load, like some library footstools do.
Of course, you won't be able to sit in the chair and zoom around the lab, but I am sure you never do that anyway ...
Roofless Toothless said:
Office wheeled chairs are really designed for carpeted floors. If used on a hard surface there is a real risk of the chair rolling out from underneath you just as you are getting on. Accidents do occur in this way, and trained risk assessor a will certainly bring it up.
One thing you might do is investigate castors that lock up as soon as they come under load, like some library footstools do.
Of course, you won't be able to sit in the chair and zoom around the lab, but I am sure you never do that anyway ...
Not when anyone's looking... One thing you might do is investigate castors that lock up as soon as they come under load, like some library footstools do.
Of course, you won't be able to sit in the chair and zoom around the lab, but I am sure you never do that anyway ...
(I'm 60 going on 14)
.This isn't "health and safety gone mad"... Its just someone in with a dubious position trying to justify their job. The kind of people that will be the first to go at the next economic hiccup and they know it.
And to be fair, if we give these mini-napoleons an important sounding title like Czar of workplace safety then get them doing pointless busywork... it keeps them from doing real damage.
Your chairs are safe because the Kaiser of operational expenditure control isn't going to outlay additional money for the wanton extravagance of safe chairs.
And to be fair, if we give these mini-napoleons an important sounding title like Czar of workplace safety then get them doing pointless busywork... it keeps them from doing real damage.
Your chairs are safe because the Kaiser of operational expenditure control isn't going to outlay additional money for the wanton extravagance of safe chairs.
Reminds me of a previous workplace were some HR/H&S stype tried to prevent any working from home as 'they'd be responsible for H&S for your home and have to buy all the chairs/desks etc'
Was a very tiresome process to get them to understand the actual legal position, which was doubly annoying as the HSE quote is along the lines of 'the business is only responsible for the equipment they provide'
Was a very tiresome process to get them to understand the actual legal position, which was doubly annoying as the HSE quote is along the lines of 'the business is only responsible for the equipment they provide'
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