The country has gone to pot completely.
Everybody is frightened of their own shadows.
You have Police that won’t do their jobs without senior officers do risk assessment first. Soon the fire Brigade won’t tackle a fire incase someone gets burnt.
Your have currupt MP’s fiddling tax payers money.
I am really glad I got out when I did.
I did my own risk assessment too.
I still live in Europe so I am still covered by the same laws.
The diffence abroad is they haven’t made an industry out of H&S and they still USE COMMON SENSE.

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Well it is all very silly but the uk has gone to pot. But saying all that it had to be a teacher didn’t it they have the class room assistant and every one else running around for them. Now out of the school they want some one to open a sachet of sauce incase it goes on his shirt. What ever next spoon fed and assisted to the lav……stupid man grow up…..

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cursading for common sense ?? I would say the Shropshire star is using daily mail style rhetoric to appeal to the lowest common denomenator in society and spread tales to sell papers – as a health and safety professional this form of journalism is offensive to my senses and i guess at least i will not have the risk of paper cuts in future as i wont be buying the star again!

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First of all – It’s about serving a customer – AND when you run a business, the first thing you learn is to LOOK after your customers.

Customers are HARD to find and EASY to lose.

Now – Had it been say an older person suffering from arthritis – (and lets be honest – some sachets ARE hard to open) then I suspect that no-one would find the request that odd.

HOWEVER – it seems in this situation that the “culprit” is a Teacher, who then goes on to use the lame excuse about not getting sauce on his shirt!

So really … is this more to do with a “teacher” being unable to undertake a simple task,…. or is it about Health and Safety Rules?

I think I know, (bearing in mind earlier posts about teachers) which one I’d go for !!

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I have an even better one, My daughter is 17 and recently completed her phase 1 training in the Army. At 17 she had to live down Surrey, she passed all her exams in firing rifles with live ammunition, taught how to use bayonets in conflict situations, scaled heights of 5 meters climbing up ropes in her PT lessons and learnt how to land properly after jumping over 2 meter obsticles on the assault course.

12 weeks into their training they spent a week at a privatly run adventure centre in Wales that the Army use. Upon her arrival the first thing she was told was that because she was under 18 she was NOT allowed to sleep on a top bunk in the dormitory due to insurance / health and safety reasons.

Strange thing is the next day after she arrived they were climbing a 100 ft rock face and then absailing back down.

What a society we live in…………………

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The problem is health and safety is a great idea and necessary. When it was carried out as part time function of other workers it was fine, but now its and industry trying to justify it’s existance.

I work in an open plan office and adjacent to me is the health and safety section. Everyday I listen to them trying to come up with new rules to ‘protect’ us employees. The best one I heard recently was they were writing rules about company car use. They invented a new rule that no employee could use the company Sat Nav without first completing the training course for its use!! That had me in stitches for the rest of the day.

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What sort of adult goes straight to the local press with such an issue. This is nothing to do with H&S this is more to do with bog standard communication

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There just before 7am….doesn’t school start at 9am? That’s one big sandwich Nic!

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