Health and safety.

[scowy68]

It's terrible that we have laws in place to protect workers and employers are bastards for following them.

On the contrary,i think it's great that we are looked after by our employers,i do know though,that a lot of the measures introduced are over the top,and just down to a high paid member of staff trying to justify his/her job.

 

[CityChick]

I look after the Health & Safety where I work, and I have to keep telling people not to walk round the office barefoot for H&S reasons, but they just think you are being fussy.

It is minging though, why would you take your shoes off at work?!!

I work with a girl called Zola....she always walks around in her barefeet!

**slam**

tell her she was shite on come dine with me

 

[softlad]

I think what I have said has been taken out of context somewhat. I'm all for actual safety measures to be imposed, but get frustrated when its construed as an over eager employer "enforcing" stringent measures on their employees when the actual reason is the stringent regulations being imposed on the employer who in turn have to impose the same on their employees.

As you Blue Panther. I have no issue with the claims that are valid, however, (and as a defendant solicitor for the "cowboy firms" that you refer to) I can say that this week I have seen claims for the following injuries:

A Paper Cut....

Bruised backside for falling off of a chair...

And the best one, is for flea bites...

Now the people that take these cases, the people that claim these "injuries" are the people that drive yours and my insurance premiums up across the board. The money to pay these spurious claims doesnt come from some magical pot somewhere does it?

Lord Jackson seems to have got his teeth into these rogue practices, and lets hope (in my world anyway) that these scheister firms get run into the ground.

Rant over.

 

[stony]

There was a bloke at a my old place that successfully sued the company because he slipped on a wet floor that he had just mopped. He broke his hip and got a really good payout because there wasn't a wet floor sign up. He also got a written warning because it was his job to put the sign up after he'd mopped it.

Another bloke at the same firm drove a truck out of the yard with the boom sticking up. First motorway bridge he came to he wrote the truck off and caused thousands of pounds worth of damage to the bridge.
He got away with it because despite being the regular driver of that vehicle and him doing the job for over ten years. He didn't have the correct CITB card to operate the boom.

 

[baldmosher]

I can say that this week I have seen claims for the following injuries:

A Paper Cut....

Bruised backside for falling off of a chair...

And the best one, is for flea bites...

No arguments from me about reducing the auto-payout culture and if someone gets a payout from a paper cut or swinging on their chair like a primary schoolchild, I would be utterly astonished if they won.

But frankly, flea bites are a fucking menace. If I'd told my employer that there were fleas in the carpet, and they didn't even at least offer to pay for some cans of flea spray for us to do our own carpets, I would take them to the cleaners. No puns intended. I have three indoor cats at home, and the fleas will come home with me, causing me further expense as I have to buy flea spray and 'Spot-on' treatment which would run to about £40 in total.

-- Fri Oct 14, 2011 2:29 pm --

There was a bloke at a my old place that successfully sued the company because he slipped on a wet floor that he had just mopped. He broke his hip and got a really good payout because there wasn't a wet floor sign up. He also got a written warning because it was his job to put the sign up after he'd mopped it.

That's brilliant!! Surprised he wasn't just sacked for gross misconduct, or embezzlement though, the idiot/conniver.

 

[rushts]

The last place i worked at was terrible for health and safety, they wouldn't even supply little springs for our boots. The twats.

 

[nelsons willie]

The last place i worked at was terrible for health and safety, they wouldn't even supply little springs for our boots. The twats.

everytime i see that pic my stomach goes funny.

 

[mcfc2112]

I look after the Health & Safety where I work, and I have to keep telling people not to walk round the office barefoot for H&S reasons, but they just think you are being fussy.

It is minging though, why would you take your shoes off at work?!!

I work with a girl called Zola....she always walks around in her barefeet!

**slam**

Is she a showgirl? With yellow feathers in her hair and a dress cut down to there?

 

[york away to this!]

I look after the Health & Safety where I work, and I have to keep telling people not to walk round the office barefoot for H&S reasons, but they just think you are being fussy.

It is minging though, why would you take your shoes off at work?!!

I work with a girl called Zola....she always walks around in her barefeet!

**slam**

Is she a showgirl? With yellow feathers in her hair and a dress cut down to there?

Lola, with an L....

 

[mcfc2112]

I work with a girl called Zola....she always walks around in her barefeet!

**slam**

Is she a showgirl? With yellow feathers in her hair and a dress cut down to there?

Lola, with an L....

Lola? Lo lo lo Lola, lo lo lo Lola?