Rant 48 - 17/2/12 Subject: H.R health and safety.

Rant number 48


It saddens me greatly to have to inform you of this my friends, but I really must. This piece of information is both important and just dreadful, so I'll say it slowly.

The......world......is......quite......dangeous


There, I said it - I'm glad that one is over with!

In days past, this applied in our home lives, in the outside world and - at work.

Luckily though, your safety is now secured in the latter of these fields, due to the quintessential joy which is H.R health and safety.

Fucking hell, do I hate this kind of HR - its bloody irritating.

Its all about preventing idiots from hurting themselves by being idiots. They are killing common sense!

I do not need a sign to tell me that a hot tap has hot water - because it is a hot water tap. That's kind of the fucking point isn't it?

A useful sign would be to tell me that a cold tap was actually hot or that it did not eject water but hydrochloric acid spitting mutant tadpoles. This kind of sign is almost certainly necessary.

I understand signs about things potentially falling on you.

Signs about floors being wet I understand.

I don't get those signs about wet floors being slippery however. Because, thats fucking obvious...surely?

It is also annoyingly ambiguous. When you say that the floor is slippery when wet - this does not describe the current state of the floor in question.

There are signs like these everywhere, to stop idiots doing their thing. How many times have you seen signs screaming 'risk of shock' on the side of an industrial electrical system of some sort. No doubt there is a risk of shock inside however, I don't look at these things and think 'I'm going to open that up and poke around in there.'
As such, this suggests that only those with a position of minor authority should be opening the thing anyway. By the advent of said authority thusly, you would like to think that these people know the risks involved and the potential electrical hazards.

As such, a sign reading 'to be accessed only by official personnel' would suffice.

Now, you could argue that an idiot would ignore this and poke around in there anyway, resulting in a zappy and untimely death. My answer to this - is that they shouldn't poke around!

So few kids have common sense these days and spelling everything out really doesn't help. Get rid of H.R health and safety idiots!

Rant over.