Once in a while I get round to working in a proper job. I recently spied this poster in my workplace:
So…I decided to check out this wonderful Health and safety website that the poster advertised. I’m not too sure how many of my fellow minimum wage workers will do so, but I thought it might be worth a laugh. Sure enough, it’s easy enough to strike gold in the wonderful world of health and safety. The highlight? An entire webpage devoted to HOW TO USE A LADDER.
Now I’m SORRY, but no matter HOW BADLY Labour is educating the new generation of workers, there is NO WAY that people need four pages of advice on how to check that a ladder is safe.
THE EMPLOYER’S GUIDE
Great, I feel enlightened. But what if I’m an employer? Can the Ladder executive help me? Why YES, it CAN! Not only does the Health and Safety Executive have an “Employers Guide” on Ladder Safety, but it also provides an awesome “toolbox talk on leaning ladder and stepladder safety“. (See below)
Now all of this might not bother me that much if I didn’t know that somewhere in the Health and Safety Executive there’s an Executive Director who’s being paid more than 100,000 pounds a year to come up with this kind of crap. This is the ultimate example of the nanny state going to far, the paradigm of piss-taking. Why do I pay 20% taxes on the minimum wage for people to be employed to tell employers how to look out for the people they employ?
Get real, Labour, then go away. And leave us alone.
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Posted by Will Stobart 
