Health & Safety Blunders

Post ridiculous examples of health & safety regulations you find in here. No, don't go googling shit and all that. Stuff you find in real life.

I took some photos today out in the hills, up by a wind farm they are building. Next to a small burn, or stream if you are not Scottish, I discovered this.

Can anyone please explain to me what the point of a fucking lifeguard ring is here?

What the absolute fuck! lol

Stupid authorities.

 

I know we're all supposed to agree that health and safety is daft and/or encroaches civil liberties/defies common sense, but mostly it just seems to me to be about saving money and covering your arse in case some dozy twat falls in your pond and wants to sue

Like aye, you end up with some daft looking sights like above, but that's just the result of someone making a blanket rule like "all bodies of water of a certain size need to have a life-ring nearby" rather than paying some poor sod with a clipboard to traipse round the countryside with a macintosh at least four times in a year making a survey of every river's drownability and whether a lifering is strictly necessary. They went with the cheaper option, I can't say I blame 'em.

 

When i visited the coast of Maine there was a random lifeguard chair on a rock along the coast. It was 50 degrees in the middle of summer that day, the water was who knows what kind of ungodly temperature, the coast was pure rock and waves were crashing on it. If anyone tries to swim there they deserve whatever happens to them, is what I say.

Actually i dont really know if an actual lifeguard worked there, maybe someone stuck the chair there to be funny. But it popped into my head when i saw the picture of the life ring

 

Heaven forbid we might be permitted to just use our own common sense..

No that would be too dangerous.

 

All it takes is a couple of cunts without any who think that their not having any is somehow everyone else's fault and that they should be reimbursed by the council because no one put on the packaging that you shouldn't stick your dick in the furnace, and then everyone gets treated like idiots.

 

my sincerest hope is that it just washed up there in the most recent flood.

 

Nah seriously, it's way up in the hills near the summits. You wouldnae get your feet wet if you fell in there. Further to that there's no reason why any of the workers would need to go down near the water anyway.

 

It's a lot worse than you think


The cost of Public liability insurance adds anywhere up to 10% of your bill in some places you buy stuff from, pubs, McDonald's etc


It also wipes out the possibility of most street vendors in western countries, why you can't just set up a stall selling food especially like one can in India. 5000 pounds a year just on liability insurance in case some twit forgets to take the toothpick out of the burger first.

Which means a whole whole bunch of jobs and industries wiped out becuase of ridiculous rents, too much red tape and monster insurance bills.

Go to Mumbai or Ho Chi Minh city to see what I mean, if In your country or my country people were able to just sell stuff anywhere there would be zero unemployment..

Tradies too, they in part are so friggin expensive becuase of the liability insurance they have to pay.


We in the west especially are pretty much running around paying at least an extra 10% for everything becuase the shallow end of the gene pool needs a sign for everything and 10 times their annual salary to rehabilitate and pay their lawyers.

And everyone just seems to bend over and take it

 

That's just about the long and short of it.

I've tasted the street food in Mumbai, it's the best and the cheapest food in the world.

 

..and the shallow end of the pool like to go round shining lights in my eyes everywhere I go at night. I go walking in the country and the hills at night often, and although I carry a headlight with me I rarely ever use the thing. Then along comes another car shining it's ridiculously bright headlights in my eyes, then I get back to the town where I live and I can barely open my eyes because the street lights are too bright.

There's an orange street light just outside my window, which if it wasn't there I could probably see the milky way from my house. As it turns out though all I can see at night is ORANGE. I raised the issue with my neighbours across in the house where the light reflects off thus making it even brighter, and apparently they need it so they can see where to put their keys in the front door at night.

 

what it would be, as pointed out, is an intolerable inconvenience to a world ruled top down, with too wide of a brush, by corporate greed and the worship of little green pieces of paper.

its also possible, the life ring was the nearest handy bright colored object, to mark the location so it could be seen from a distance.
or to identify it, to somebody, as the place to start doing some mysterious thing, involving a large yellow vogon destructor fleet, at some unspecified future time, remaining to be deliberated upon.
(which none the less gets back to money taking the place of sapience)