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Bruce[_2_] · February 1st 12, 11:50 AM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.railway

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On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:56:48 +0000, Bruce
wrote:
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.

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.

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,

For a time I was the H&S rep at work. What soon became obvious that a
small number of my colleagues would attempt to use H&S as excuse to
attempt to have an easy life and not do the job they were being paid
to do.
We operated a sensible policy in respect of lifting things that could
not repaired on site mainly refrigeration equipment. That meant that
in some cases the same object could be moved by one person if a sack
truck could be got to it and wheeled to a tail lift or it may need two
if access was awkward. It was interesting that it was always the same
people that always required assistance in the Morning and would wait
happily for an hour or so drinking tea while a colleague made their
way to them ,yet in the afternoon seemed to move anything and finish
early rather than wait and go home a bit late despite that being part
of the job providing it did not happen every day.
Time again I warned them that if it genuinely needed two then doing it
by themselves would not look good in any injury claim as they had
broken procedures.
Like herding cats it was.

It is the ingrained duty of the British working class (oxymoron
alert!) to do as little work as possible, and to use every available
excuse - and then some - to reduce the amount of work still further.

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