Re: Covers bands beware!

Jose de las Heras <josenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"SteveShark" <steveATguitarsDOTpowernetDOTcoDOTuk> wrote in message
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On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:55:43 GMT, Chris Bolus <chrisB@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:08:36 GMT, performingchimp
<SPAMinfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Luckily we in Britain are mostly sane.

No we're not. We've just been told that, due to health & safety rules,
we are no longer allowed to carry hot drinks between one room and
another "unless in a suitable lidded insulated container"!
And since they moved our staff workroom so that it is no longer adjacent
to the staffroom, and only the staffroom has water and a boiler, we have
no choice but to obtain "suitable lidded insulated containers."

Sheer madness.

I don't think so - especially with young children around.

The last time I taught in a First School - when I was a 'proper'
teacher - some 16 years ago, we had a rule that no hot drinks were to
be carried around the school during school hours.

I think hot fluids and the unpredictability of young children is a
miaxture that could have very nasty consequences.

Imagine if you spilt a hot drink over a child...........what would be
the legal upshot of that?

No, I disagree, and I'm normally no lover of bull*** bureaucracy.

I think in this case it makes perfect sense.

Steve.

That's the issue for me: you last sentence. To make sense. To be sensible.
Do we have to write down little rules for every little thing we do? The idea
of writing rules comes from a desire to make life easier, usually by
reinforcing a "common sense" notion, so that it becomes clear for everybody,
including those whose sense is a little bit lacking. But then when the
little rules are poorly stated, they become handcuffs, and one no longer
follows common sense, but does things a particular way because "it's a
rule". Also, given the bureaucratic nature of these little rules, they can
be a real pain in the arse to change...

Ok, I'm ranting here instead of trying to change the little rules that annoy
me where I work. But coming back to the issue about the drinks... once the
rule is in place, somebody can get in trouble for walkiing from one room to
another carrying a drink when no kids are around. Silly. Do we really need a
"rule" to justify telling a colleague "be careful, that seems a bit
dangerous around here because x reason".

Thats fine, until some kid comes racing around the corner, you spill
drinks on them, it gets in the paper and then the daily mail is ranting
about how our kids are unprotected at school, and when is the government
going to do something about it, and why won't anyone please think of the
children?

I am happy there's such a thing as a Health & Safety department. But where's
the common sense?

The common sense went when people started taking people to court for
things that years ago would have been classed as their own stupid fault.

And another thing... ;-)
Where I work, I often see "health & safety regulations" that are clearly
designed not so much to allow you to work in a safer environment, but to
keep the University from being sued (successfully) if something does happen.

Indeed - that is what most of it is about. The costs of getting
insurance against being sued.

I am a contractor, working in an office. To work there my company (ie,
my own company) has to have a £1 million insurance against injuring my
co-workers.
OK, I am the one in charge of the toolkit, and I also have a stapler,
but still.
I presume that covers me for damage to things. I guess that makes more
sense, I can think of how to do at least 30 million pounds worth of
damage quite easily, but it isn't likely!

So... I'm planning to move out of research and become a health & safety
officer.

Do it. It is very boring but very well paid.

--
Woody

www.alienrat.com
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