I remember when Health & Safety was called
Common Sense.
(Kip, Wed 6 Jul 2011, 12:34, 9 replies)

Ooooo ,,, a late entry with satire lols!
Good work!
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 6 Jul 2011, 12:35, closed)

Really?
Government health and safety inspections date back to the industrial revolution. You is well old, innit.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 6 Jul 2011, 12:43, closed)

Life was much better back in the good old days when
workers regularly died or lost limbs in industrial accidents.
(Kitty Fantastico "Dwarf, Anorexic and In a Fight ", Wed 6 Jul 2011, 12:50, closed)

You have to go all the way to India if you want to employ children.
And it's next to impossible to get a decent slave or indentured servant anywhere outside Singapore or China these days.

Political Correctness Gone Mad.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 6 Jul 2011, 12:52, closed)

Don't stick your hands where you wouldn't stick your cock
One of the first few things told to me as an apprentice. I still have a full compliment of fingers and nob.

If someone is stupid enough to put there hands into machinery they dont deserve hands.
(BiggestNizzy your company name here pm for rates., Wed 6 Jul 2011, 15:18, closed)

"An employer cannot assume 'common sense' when
applying Health and Safety legislation". (paraphrased)
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Wed 6 Jul 2011, 14:38, closed)

The problem is employers don't apply common sense when applying health & safety legislation
There's nowt wrong with most of the legislation, it's the implementation and misinterpretation that's the problem.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 6 Jul 2011, 16:47, closed)

You are probably right.
Legislation that modifies environments on a day to day basis should be easy to interpret though shouldn't it? I am not suggesting we do away with it or that I have a better way of doing it, 'cause frankly I don't, but it is still a bit frustrating for the small employer particularly.
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Wed 6 Jul 2011, 18:21, closed)

quite right
*clicky*
(Suck it and Sea, Wed 6 Jul 2011, 18:02, closed)