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Post Office Railway - mothballed?
Martyn H wrote:
On Jan 28, 7:07*pm, Bruce wrote: Some H&S intervention should be welcomed. *The HSE people have worked wonders in the construction industry and have saved hundreds of lives. I would not want to turn the clock back to the 1970s. But it is in other areas that H&S appears to have gone mad, with the lamination of all risk of any kind seemingly their objective. *Local authorities seem particularly badly afflicted, with schools being a particular bone of contention. very little of the 'elf'n'safetygornmadinnit' comes from the HSE and much of it would be seen as overkill by a properly trained H+S practitioner or HSE inspector, but while people think a short course makes them a H+S practitioner ... Indeed, the head of the HSE recently went public to explain that most of the recent H&S nonsense was not the responsibility of HSE. I have the highest regard for the professional staff of HSE who, through their efforts, have saved hundreds of lives and thousands of serious injuries in the construction industry in spite of some very determined opposition within that industry. What they have achieved is a change in culture, with younger managers putting safety first whereas previously it was at best an afterthought, or seen as an unnecessary added cost. I can't speak for the effectiveness of HSE in other industries because I don't have any direct experience of them. However, a close friend works for HSE in Occupational Health and I am deeply impressed with her professionalism. As you say, the problem comes with people who are given responsibility for H&S in organisations that don't provide adequate training. They then feel they have to be proactive in order to justify their job title ... Another problem is that while H&S should be the responsibility of everyone in an organisation, and organisations should ingrain that attitude into all their staff, there is a tendency to leave it to the people who have H&S-related job titles, and that gives them an importance that they don't deserve. That situation pressurises the people with H&S-related job titles to issue edicts because they feel they have to justify their existence, and it is those edicts that lie behind the well-publicised problems. |
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