Health and safety fuckers...
I was building the radio 1 stage at Global Gathering a few years back, and I had climbed 6 feet up the truss to fasten some bolts. The on-site H&S Hitler spotted me climbing above a 'safe' height without full climbing kit, and came over to advise me to use a set of step ladders to gain access to the job instead.

Now I don't know if you have tried to use a pair of steps in the middle of a field, but they're not the most stable thing on muddy grass!

In 7 years of working for some of the bggest bands in the world, I have never fell from a peice of rigging. Cue me falling off the friggin' steps, spraining my wrist, having to take the next week off work, missing The Rolling Stones gig a couple of days later and losing a shed load of cash in earnings!

All H&S staff should be terminated at birth.

If they ever bother you at work, ignore 'em and hit 'em with the biggest hammer in your toolkit when they turn their back..

Worst advice I've ever received, and best advice I can offer.

-Rant over- (for now)
(roadieflip Who nicked the jokes from my lolly sticks?, Tue 25 May 2010, 0:16, 7 replies)

yes
im not alone.
i could 'safely' strangle the fucking lot of em.
click
(shinypurplebit booked his tickets (yay) on, Tue 25 May 2010, 1:03, closed)

Damn those H&S people for trying to impose reasonable safety measures!
It's like living Nazi Germany!
( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Tue 25 May 2010, 6:57, closed)

It's not the reasonable, well-thought-out ones that are the problem
I mean even crap like "only use the right hand side of the stairs and always use the handrail on pain of a fine/bollocking/disciplinary" is almost- almost- acceptable.

It's when the rules are applied without thinking- for example the OP probably wouldn't have fallen off (assuming he did because of it being muddy as is implied) if he'd had a sheet of wood underneath him to spread the weight and stop him sinking. But the rules as far as $jobsworth knew didn't say anything about that, and it didn't even occur to him that the rules might not be the whole story in this situation.
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Tue 25 May 2010, 7:17, closed)

Rules
are there for the advice of wise men and the blind acceptance of fools
(Sir Tainley Barking Ezekiel 23:20, Tue 25 May 2010, 9:34, closed)

What about the ignorance of pricks?

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Tue 25 May 2010, 22:08, closed)

LIKE NAZI GERMANY

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Tue 25 May 2010, 22:08, closed)

Fuck the rules
If you are stupid enough to do something that will get yourself hurt, then you deserved it. I've had it up the eye teeth with workplace health and safety trying to keep dumbfucks in the gene pool, we're better off without them.
Although it has occurred to me that it's not at all about safety, it's about employers being "seen" to be doing something that will cover their arse in a court of law, nothing more.
(M61A1 CUPID- STUNTS, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:31, closed)