It seems that the last week has been a marvellous one for the Health and Safety fascists. First up we had the firemen who were disciplined for sleeping on the floor rather than in the reclining chairs they had been bought, apparently they were guilty of "involvement in the use of unauthorised rest facilities". The major concern was that no risk assessment had been made on their sleeping bags. It's utterly ridiculous.
Now we have news that hundreds of park benches are going to have to be replaced because they're a few inches too low. A crematorium in Nottinghamshire has been told to replace 40 benches at £400 each because they are three inches too low. According to the crematorium they have also been told to make additional changes meaning the bill will be around £200,000.
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I take it you heard the one about an abandoned school, a listed building, where the council pay for the lights to be switched on all night so that any would-be burglars don't do themselves a mischief in the dark...
nope, but it doesn't surprise me in the slightest.
On the other hand banning hanging baskets during a structural assessment is being condemned as "health and safety gone mad" but I genuinely wouldn't want one of things dropping on my head whilst out shopping...
Can't they just put a few paving slabs under them?
Why haven't Blair, Brown, Hoon & successive Defence Ministers been prosecuted for failures in supplying safety equipment, such as bullet proof vests, suitable footware, working weaponry, bomb proof Land Rovers: failures in helicopters, Nimrod etc. Even British Rail & BP did not ignore safety so flagrantly.
Rachel is spot on. I can stick some bits and bobs in the back pf my car and schlep over and adapt the benches at £50 apiece.
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