InsaneApache
01-28-2006, 13:10
An article in the London Times.
Hamlet loses its doorstop delivery after health and safety inspector finds danger at every turn
IN THE peaceful hamlet of Cefn Minog (population: three), nobody will forget the day a clipboard-carrying health and safety inspector visited their mountainside.
HASAWA (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2013173,00.html)
Now I really am living in a surrealist Warhol movie.
One of the deadliest obstacles, the inspector concluded, was a stile opposite Bettws Farm, near Abergavenny. Under the heading “harm potential”, the report states: “Slip/trip/fall. Muscle/tendon strains or broken bones, cuts, grazes, bruising. Hit by moving vehicle.” The “probable severity” was listed as “fatality”. William Jackson, 79, who has a pacemaker, was surprised. Across the country lane from the killer stile is the nearest postbox to Mr Jackson’s home. The “VR”* insignia reminds passers-by that it has been there for more than a century, serving farmers through less risk-averse eras. Mr Jackson must plod down a meadow and negotiate the stile to post his letters.
I'm all for protecting workers from accidents and unnecessary risks but this is ridiculous.
*for none commonwealth citizens this stands for Victoria Regina, she died in 1902.
Hamlet loses its doorstop delivery after health and safety inspector finds danger at every turn
IN THE peaceful hamlet of Cefn Minog (population: three), nobody will forget the day a clipboard-carrying health and safety inspector visited their mountainside.
HASAWA (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2013173,00.html)
Now I really am living in a surrealist Warhol movie.
One of the deadliest obstacles, the inspector concluded, was a stile opposite Bettws Farm, near Abergavenny. Under the heading “harm potential”, the report states: “Slip/trip/fall. Muscle/tendon strains or broken bones, cuts, grazes, bruising. Hit by moving vehicle.” The “probable severity” was listed as “fatality”. William Jackson, 79, who has a pacemaker, was surprised. Across the country lane from the killer stile is the nearest postbox to Mr Jackson’s home. The “VR”* insignia reminds passers-by that it has been there for more than a century, serving farmers through less risk-averse eras. Mr Jackson must plod down a meadow and negotiate the stile to post his letters.
I'm all for protecting workers from accidents and unnecessary risks but this is ridiculous.
*for none commonwealth citizens this stands for Victoria Regina, she died in 1902.