Health and safety Nazis!

[daveparry]

The company I work for has decided that because an idiot cut himself with a Stanley knife....they are now BANNED completely, then they decided that it would be mandatory to wear gloves while at work!!! followed up with "no latex gloves because someone "may" be latex intolerant"......Ladders are BANNED! Rigger Boots are BANNED.....I could go on!

Am I wrong to think that the Health and safety at work act 1974 is LAW but that what it contains is just ADVICE!

They are driving me up the frigging wall!

[daveparry]

My point is, as I said to my manager...The HSE Act 1974 is the Law, BUT what the Act contains is simply guidance and advice on how the Law is interperated to which he hid behind that old favourite "company policy"

[daveparry]

A big YES! however that is not an option, I have been working safely for 40 odd years!

santona1937 said:

To all those folks complaining about HSE. Will you sign a contract releasing you employer from ANY responsibility for any accident or injury that may occur to you at work? And agree that under no conditions will you make a claim for any such injury?