Diesel Damo wrote:
> What's next? Insect surface sprays?
>
>
> <http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?
> in_article_id=115014&in_page_id=34>
>
> Fire extinguishers could be removed from communal areas in flats
> throughout the country because they are a safety hazard, it has
> emerged.
>
> The life-saving devices encourage untrained people to fight a fire
> rather than leave the building, risk *****sors in Bournemouth
> decided.
Frigging health & safety "experts". Dunno what it is about
them, but they don't seem to have a shred of intelligence to
share between the bloody lot of them. We had an OHS
inspector come and inspect our shop a while back. We have a
photo processing lab and so he decided that we must have an
eye-wash station in the lab because of the risk of chemical
splash. But the chemicals in the lab all go into and out of
the machine in sealed containers. The only risk of spla****ng
occurs in the washroom where the roller assemblies are
dismantled for wa****ng. No we couldn't have the eyewash
station there, it had to be in the lab. What's scary is
these braindead ****wits have the power to completely shut
down a shop until their petty complaints are fixed, costing
shop owners thousands of dollars. Really the only health and
safety risk was the inspector getting a 4x2 around the ears,
although the risk of brain damage from such action would be
minimal.
One of the blokes I work with has a brother on a building
site in Brisbane. They require frequent access to the
street, and being the only operation on a dead-end street,
they applied to council and got the street closed for the
period of the construction. ****wit OH&S officer decided
that since they were doing stuff on the street, they needed
to have qualified traffic controllers onsite at all times.
Yup, to control traffic on a short, dead-end, CLOSED street.
The site was shutdown until they complied. Needless to say,
they are now paying the wages of 2 traffic controllers, who
sit around doing nothing all day. I think 2 hitmen to
arrange the demise of the OH&S inspector would be a better
way to spend the money.
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