Health and Safety
Posted by ePlus on 16 September, 2006 at 14:40 pmHealth and Safety is bullshit. I can’t change the bulb at work in the toilet because it is H&S. Ummmm what?! 
I have to take a piss in the dark because I am NOT allowed to change the bulb? A qualified person has to be called in (an electrician) to change the bulb, because of H&S rules and regulations no one in the store can change it.
Now do you think that I would ask to change the bulb so that if I somehow injure myself I’ll sue the company? What sort of dumbass in his/her right mind is going to do something like change a bulb, run down the stairs, try to balance on a stick or whatever, and then if they injure themselves they will sue the company that they work for. 
From the moment that I go to my boss “Where are the spare bulbs so that I can replace the one in the toilet as I can’t see where I am aiming at?” - then it would seem logical that if anything *happens* to me while I change the bulb, e.g. fall over, electrocute myself or whatever, then it is all at my own risk.
But hey…. WELCOME TO GREAT BRITAIN where the Government brings up new laws/rules and regulations to piss people off, be awkward and make life harder. 
While I am still on about H&S, it is in today’s paper, Daily Mail, that the “police are being told not to chase criminals as their Health and Safety can be put at risk”. 
- Sorry, come again?
You mean some thug just stab someone and I can’t go and chase the motherfucker because I will be putting HIS Health and Safety at risk?!! - WTF?
But hey…. That’s GREAT Britain for you….
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