PC & H&S have nothing to do with each other.
I suspect that this document was written to ensure all who ride have read & signed.
then, should they fall off, they will have been made previously aware of the majority of known hazards, and it should help prevent chancer bastards attempting to sue because they have a poorly grazed knee....
thats to do with the latiginous society in which we live, not PC.
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Civil servants are paid a lot of money to come up with these reports, and who knows if they didn't make them up they might not have jobs. Health and safety is the new way for the nanny state to interfere now that most people realise what a load of old tut political correctness is. It won't be long before they introduce instructions on how to open letters without the risk of paper cuts, someone earning £50 an hour will no doubt work on that for weeks.
People are suffering genuine hardship, the record sixth period of economic downturn will very soon be a record seventh. But wither ye not, because there are people out there who are partly responsible for this mess, but they are having a great time, they are laughing it up.
But when the day arrives I only hope we have enough lampposts! :0(
in london i chase cyclists with a rubber slipper and club them as they jump red lights and hold on to my motorbike in traffic.
at 30 mph a whack from that is enough to tell them.
obey the rules of the road or DIE!
The courts do dismiss them out of hand.
No case, no case.
If the case gets to court it is decided on its merits.
For instance: If you walk around a supermarket and slip on a wet floor that is unmarked then you will probably get compensation. If you slip by ignoring the sigh saying WET FLOOR, you probably won't.
And the NUMBER of claims is NOT going up...but .
And PLEASE do not confuse the public service version of Health and Safety with the REAL life-saving Health and Safety.....Health and Safety is not well served by constant newspaper stories about "bonkers conkers".
Health and Safety is about ensuring that employers have reasonable standards in both their premises and operations so as to minimise risk to employees AND others who may be affected by the work.
Don't forget, the UK has over 300 killed every year in AVOIDABLE accidents, along with several tens of thousands who die from industrial disease...and the few hundred thousand who suffer injuries at work. THAT is the real Health and Safety.
Of course, every employer thinks he/she is hard done by....but in the majority of cases it is their fault....many employers operate machinery in either a dangerous condition, or in a dangerous mode of operation (guards deliberately disabled)...if an injury or death results they will be SERIOUSLY in trouble. In many cases they will be imprisoned.
If a death results they can now be prosecuted for manslaughter. Serious jail time starts here.
have we got one for walking to the shops?????????????????
The Safe System of Operation would follow the Risk Assessment. A risk assessment is a legal requirement that looks at the operation and decides the probable risks attached.
Usually it is quite simple: Ladder: falls. Secure ladder: Train employees in same.
Occasionally you get a complete donk of a person doing the ra...Ladder: Falls. Get rid of ladder: Use scaffolding. Air bags in case of fall. Helicopter standing by for evac.
In the case of the broom......Broom: Walking along with broom over shoulder. Decapitate member of public. Lose broom. Buy vacuum cleaner.
Fortunately, most employees (and employers) have common sense. The employer in the examples above would recognise that the helicopter is going to be expensive. The employees concerned with the brooms would be too busy playing Knights of the round table (in the corridors with the brooms) to bother with anything. Which is why they have to be told.
Solicitors come into things AFTER the accident has happened. The IDEA is to PREVENT the accidents or to REDUCE the likelihood of them happening.
While the gov would LOVE to get rid of no-win-no-fee...they CANNOT...quite simply it would be interference in trade....internationally not possible...in any case, many of the claims are from union members...via the unions solicitors...and not no-win-no-fee.
The PROBLEM is NOT the solicitors it is the ACCIDENTS.
No doubt you have seen the signs floating (sic) about in supermarkets when there has been a spill/fridge broken. WARNING; WET FLOOR.
Nice sign, helpful. That'll stop the b'stards suing us (no it won't...the sign says there is a hazard...the hazard should be reduced or removed...the sign is useless for anything other than there is a sign there...water flows)
If YOU tripped over a hole in the pavement and broke your hip you would not be as anal about solicitors or the law....
You are shooting the messenger again...
