Diet Santa

[Wolf]

it's all OSH's fault. bunch of wankers. every job i've had, theres a huge form and video and a whole lot of other bullshit saying that i cant go near paper in case i get a paper cut, have to wear a jersey in the freezer in case i start to shiver, not allowed to walk too fast in case i fall over. these people don't have the balls to live in the real world!

Hail fellow lupine!

The only OSH training I needed as a kid was "don't run with scissors" now they shut down the entire help desk call centre for half a day so we can watch the videos (the early slide show used to have pictures of the bad practices in our dept - can you imagine it? those nasty IT people had cables and equipment all over the floor and they had the gall to think a big red "Hazardous Area, Do Not Enter" sign on the door was sufficient to prevent accidents!)

[bigbadwolf]

can you imagine it? those nasty IT people had cables and equipment all over the floor and they had the gall to think a big red "Hazardous Area, Do Not Enter" sign on the door was sufficient to prevent accidents!)

all they had was a big red sign? thats an accident waiting to happen! what if the sign fell off the door and hit someone in the head?! or the bright red on the sign hurt someone's eyes? or they got distracted looking at it and walked into a wall? i cant even bare to think about how disastrous that would be.....

[Wolf]

all they had was a big red sign? thats an accident waiting to happen! what if the sign fell off the door and hit someone in the head?! or the bright red on the sign hurt someone's eyes? or they got distracted looking at it and walked into a wall? i cant even bare to think about how disastrous that would be.....

Ahh, but what were they doing in an a technical/service area where they might see such a sign if they weren't of a technical/service nature themselves (and therefore immune to the sign's redness and fully aware of the hazards it posed. Hmmmm?

Anyone entering an IT service dept should be sufficiently used to a service environment to expect hazards, identify hazards and avoid them as a matter of course - just as anyone working in the department of OSH should instinctively know that working in that environment can compel you to commit suicide...

[bigbadwolf]

just as anyone working in the department of OSH should instinctively know that working in that environment can compel you to commit suicide...

that is honestly the definition of irony... and to add insult to injury, he probably had to fill out the appropriate forms for permission to commit suicide outside of an OSH regulated workplace... poor guy

[Wolf]

that is honestly the definition of irony... and to add insult to injury, he probably had to fill out the appropriate forms for permission to commit suicide outside of an OSH regulated workplace... poor guy

Comes in handy for dealing with them (OSH): "Look, just let me get on with what I'm good at, which is fixing computers and avoiding the hazards inherent in a place where electricity, network connectivity, faulty machinery and tools congregate, and you stick with what you're good at, which is driving your co-workers to top themselves..."

Honestly, I have no time or sympathy for the buggers - ever since they successfully got it past the Electrical Workers Registration Board to put a condition on my Electrical Registration (Category A, FFS) to make me responsible for the death or injury of any person working in an environment with unsafe electrical practices (power leads across the floor etc) if I casually visited the work place and said nothing about said unsafe practices (despite the fact that it was not me that put the cords across the floor).

No, they're not responsible for the level of stress that drove one of their own to kill themselves but they can pass a law that makes me responsible for the hazards created by other people. Never mind making the dick that put the cables there responsible or - Gods forfend - making the dick that tripped over them responsible.

Glad my registration has lapsed (never technically needed it in the first place but the EWRB is not averse to reinterpreting their own rules in favour of making money...)

I know a lot of people here are against the welfare state and paying out money to the unemployable, but if the only solution the govt can come up with is creating employment opportunities by creating organisations like OSH where the Clinically PC can amuse themselves coming up with stupid regulations, then I'm in favour of the dole...