A small section of a recently fitted and quite low down suspended ceiling
"fell down" today in a secondary schools corridor.

The council got an a independant guy out to check that there were enough
hangers to support the ceiling and make sure the builders had not bodged the
job. Well the hangers were NOT at the recommended placings (ie not at 1200mm
but at 1900mm). Not that that made the ceiling fall down according to the
expert[1].

Now here is the daft risk assessment. They demanded an electrician on site
to turn the corridor lighting MCB off (and stay on site until it was time to
turn it back on) so that the this expert could remove some ceiling tiles to
have a look above the ceilings in rest of the corridor that had not "fallen
down". FFS you could not make it up.

And if that is not bad enough the primary school I also worked at sent
permission letters back with the kids tht needed signing because the fire
brigade were going to do a display for the school and the fire engines have
CCTV. No sig and the kid cannot watch the display.

[1] His expert advice was "some little ****er has jumped up and pulled it
down"

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Adam