On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 20:33:09 +0100, John Williamson wrote:

Lieutenant Scott wrote:

It isn't reining in much of it, there's H&S everywhere, it's going to
ruin the country.

I take it you've never worked in a moderately hazardous environment such
as a building site, then?

Yes I have. I irritated several health and safety ******s as I ignored all the rules.

People should look after and be responsible for themselves. By all means don't let people do something that would hurt someone else, but insisting you protect yourself is insane!

When I was a manager for a small company, I was glad of the H&S rules,
even if it was only to stop the employees doing daft things. And they
were glad of them, as it they stopped me potentially asking them to do
even dafter things.

If you asked them to do something they thought dangerous, all they have to do is say no, you don't need rules for that.

Maybe you'd like to return to the days when paint was made by painters
adding handfuls of lead and arsenic compounds to the varnish base until
they got more or less the right colour? Then, dying of lead poisoning
before they had chance to retire. Or hatters working with mercury
compounds and going mad?

They chose to do so.

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