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Just in case you were beginning to think Health & Safety inspectors might have grown a brain, we learn that three Manchester firemen (you know, those guys who dash into burning buildings etc) are facing disciplinary action for using sleeping bags that hadn't been "risk-assessed." Should we laugh or cry?
Richard Carey
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So three firefighters will be taken away from their actual jobs to deal with this nonsense. Hopefully someone at a higher level pulls the plug on this.
Firemen, and women, have always been treated with utmost respect, but since 9/11, have been looked upon with utter awe.
After seeing what we saw from the NYFD on 9/11, anyone who would discipline a fireman over this deserves a punch in the nose.
Health and safety inspectors? If they were on fire I wouldn't turn my hose on them to put them out.
Cry!!
Dawkins, I think you should turn the hose on them, but only after completing a rigorous risk assessment :)
Ah, you've seen my hose then, have you, Richard? :0)
Charles
You're far too kind. Don't even ask me what I'd like to do to these inspectors, these no good sons of bitches.
I'll put the June 14 hearing on my calendar. This is so bizarre, it deserves to be on live television. I'd like to see fellow firemen make an appearance as an act of solidarity.
Firemen everywhere are a very tight fraternity. I trust that the word is getting around the world's firehouses.
I have forwarded this story to the Uniformed Firefighters Association, the firemens union in NYC, and invited them to make a statement in solidarity with the Manchester firemen
Hey. You never know.
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Richard
A local authority in Scotland has decided to keep the electricity supply on in an empty building, so that those who break into it at night won't injure themselves.
You couldn't make it up.
They're merely afraid of being sued for work related back issues etc that often arise in public sector jobs. In other words this is fear of compensation culture. The police are already good at suing for work related stress trauma and even minor accidents. Another way to suck money out of corporate and public institutions. A police woman who slipped on a banana skin at work claimed £200,000 compensation - though she was already receiving a police pension. I bet a penny to a pound there are similar ludicrous worriers there now issuing loony H&S guidelines. Public institutions are easy money for public and employees alike. You can guarnatee that if a fire man suffers back issues a lawyer will be only too happy to find any reason to sue and i suspect if you scratch away at the surface youll find this is at the root of it. These days growing numbers of people are learning to regard every accident or work related issue as a potential lawsuit. Ditto covering themselves with the H&S manual for the new bedchairs.