For safety, for your safety has it gone too far?
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Lately (last few years) the amount of signs I’m now seeing that state for your safety or safety reasons has gone mad, not only in their quantity but reason for use.
It’s like companies are now using it for everything and sometimes I reckon just to save cash.
Saw this on the A1 today. Apparently not using street lights for safety reasons. I’m sorry but since when has not using street lighting at night been safer than using them. Surely this is just about saving cash.
Reminds me of the McDonald’s apple pie and caution maybe hot. I bloody hope so.
What other stupid for safety reason signs have people seen?
It’s like companies are now using it for everything and sometimes I reckon just to save cash.
Saw this on the A1 today. Apparently not using street lights for safety reasons. I’m sorry but since when has not using street lighting at night been safer than using them. Surely this is just about saving cash.
Reminds me of the McDonald’s apple pie and caution maybe hot. I bloody hope so.
What other stupid for safety reason signs have people seen?
Completely agree with you, the H&S argument trumps everything and it’s gone too far.
The more responsibility the state takes from the populace the less able they are to exercise responsibility for their own actions.
How many times have you sat at lights outside of peak rush hours with no one at any of the other roads to the junction. Why do we need to sit there, just put the lights to flashing yellow and everyone can use their own judgement and make the junction work.
The more responsibility the state takes from the populace the less able they are to exercise responsibility for their own actions.
How many times have you sat at lights outside of peak rush hours with no one at any of the other roads to the junction. Why do we need to sit there, just put the lights to flashing yellow and everyone can use their own judgement and make the junction work.
Super Sonic said:
When the shopping centre multi storey was being worked on they had earplug dispensers with a sign that read "caution, earplugs are not for consumption ''
Whenever you see something like that, it’s usually because someone has tried to do exactly what is being warned against.HTP99 said:
It's the big red "Footpath Closed" signs that get me, yeahh I can see that the footpath is dug up, with the big and obvious red barriers surrounding the hole, just what is the point!
You’d be surprised how many pedestrians completely ignore the signs /barriers. Same for road closed..
Usually get a few drivers get out of their cars insisting they need to get through despite the massive hole in the road and the JCB digging away.
Edited by and31 on Saturday 9th December 14:59
We all know we need health and safety but some of it now beggars belief. We got told we couldn’t use the small 3 tread steps as they weren’t any use as you can only use the first or second step! Sometimes working on lights that’s all we need, but no they wanted us to carry a big step ladder through doorways and into places where it was too large to pull out to use. Said if it was seen on our van it’d be a disciplinary!
We are heading towards Puritanical times.
There are those who wish to save us from ourselves. They are in the ascendancy.
There are those who wish to save us from ourselves. They are in the ascendancy.
C.S.Lewis said:
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals."
It's the 'claims culture' that's the cause and effect of all this. Nobody ever takes responsibility for their actions anymore, it's always somebody else's fault, and so I'm going to sue you for many millions of pounds, because I can and know my rights. So you end up with absolutely everything dumbed down to the lowest level to cover every possible eventuality so that there's no way people can sue you and win, which basically means that you are not allowed to do anything yourself and you must get a "trained professional" who has done a 5 day course in how to ascend a 3-step ladder.
MB140 said:
Lately (last few years) the amount of signs I’m now seeing that state for your safety or safety reasons has gone mad, not only in their quantity but reason for use.
It’s like companies are now using it for everything and sometimes I reckon just to save cash.
Saw this on the A1 today. Apparently not using street lights for safety reasons. I’m sorry but since when has not using street lighting at night been safer than using them. Surely this is just about saving cash.
Reminds me of the McDonald’s apple pie and caution maybe hot. I bloody hope so.
What other stupid for safety reason signs have people seen?
There is one similar to that near the Porsche dealership in Leeds, it says " narrow lanes for your safety " . How are narrow lanes safer than normal width lanes ?It’s like companies are now using it for everything and sometimes I reckon just to save cash.
Saw this on the A1 today. Apparently not using street lights for safety reasons. I’m sorry but since when has not using street lighting at night been safer than using them. Surely this is just about saving cash.
Reminds me of the McDonald’s apple pie and caution maybe hot. I bloody hope so.
What other stupid for safety reason signs have people seen?
I remember being on a Nile cruise boat a few years ago. On the last day of the cruise, the captain invited those on board for a tour 'below decks' on the boat.
When we were in the engine room, there were a pair of large V16 MTU diesel engines roaring away at full chat either side of the walkway we were on. No guards or protection. The belts, ancillaries, pulleys and driveshafts were completely exposed.
Somebody asked him why there was nothing to stop the machinery being touched, and the captain looked genuinely confused. "Why would you touch it? Only a complete idiot would do that."
I couldn't help finding the attitude quite refreshing.
When we were in the engine room, there were a pair of large V16 MTU diesel engines roaring away at full chat either side of the walkway we were on. No guards or protection. The belts, ancillaries, pulleys and driveshafts were completely exposed.
Somebody asked him why there was nothing to stop the machinery being touched, and the captain looked genuinely confused. "Why would you touch it? Only a complete idiot would do that."
I couldn't help finding the attitude quite refreshing.
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