We all know the answer, tell them not too! From the Health and Safety Executive (South West)
As the school holiday have kicked in, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is warning the South West's school children and their parents to be aware of construction sites and not to treat them as playgrounds
According to Andrew Kingscott, Principal Inspector for construction for the HSE
"Construction sites can be a dangerous attraction for children. The dangers are numerous and varied, including scaffolding; reversing vehicles; electrical power supplies; ladders; and falling equipment. Access to construction sites should be restricted and risks should be assessed by site managers to ensure that untoward incidents are prevented. The consequences could be awful and even life threatening."
That's exactly why they/we do/did it. Adn before someone says I;m being irresponsible I'm not, I'm merely being realistic.
4 comments:
Little boys are attracted to doing dangerous things. That is what makes them little boys.
They just don't get it, do they ?
If they were in a real job, in a provate sector company, they'd be forced to examine the effects their advertising campaigns had on consumer behaviour. And when they realised that they were influencing behaviour in the wrong way, they'd stop. But because they're public sector, they think they know everything and they don't have to measure the success of their campaings, they think they have a God-given right to pontificate about anything and everything and nanny us into an early grave. They H&S Executive are absolutely typical of everything that is wrong with state interference; they don't understand the market, they don't understand their target audience and they're not emasured on their success in any way. And on the rare occasions they're asked to do something useful, like determine quickly the source of a Foot & Mouth outbreak, they are clueless.
When I was 8 or 9 (mid 60's) we used to play on a large building complex of flats being built in Germany. One of our pranks, whilst playing Japs and Commandoes, was to run to the end of the 4th floor landing, out of the unglazed window, onto the scaffolding and then leap into the air and land four stories below into a huge cache of stored insulation material.
There was no H&S in them days, just a German Security guard (ex SS) with a big dog.
10 years later, I was reluctantly forced to perform a similar feat, at that time I was paid to do it. (A 'P' company exercise at Abingdon) the instructor was nicknamed Eva Braun's Grandad. I passed with flying colours, In fact eva Braun's Grandad said it was the best example he had seen for a long time. The bugger sent me up again to demonstrate the technique to the others.
4 weeks ago, I was replacing a few tiles on my neighbours roof without scaffolding. Guess what? Mr H&S said I shouldn't be doing that, as it was dangerous and he was going to report me. (son of Marry Poppins)
And I am so glad you called them "building sites". When did "construction" come in?
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