Was in a container depot in felixstowe yesterday, when waiting to book in I had a quick read of there site rules.
One was, If you dont have a full understanding of the English language, written or spoken, you cannot enter our site and will have to leave, due to health and safety reasons.
Never come across this particular rule before, a few places I have been to have multi lingual notices.
their site, their rules
simple
I wish more places in England applied rules like that!
i’m undecided with this.
i can see where they’re coming from, but why not just have the site rules in several languages?
and if it’s only written in english, then how does the foreigner know that he can’t go in?
is it fare to expect an english driver on european work to speak french, german, polish, russian, spanish, italian?
where do we draw the line?
it looks like the rules are drawn up by a naive bigot that hasn’t got a grasp of life outside of a hard hat.
Felixstowe is in England, the rules are in English… whats the problem. 
i deliver to a worldwide chemical company with depots all over the UK, and what astounds me is that every depot has a different health and safety policy and different type of warning alarms. i would have have thought a basic thing for a company would be to have a uniform warnings policy, but no every site i have to do an induction.
shuttlespanker:
their site, their rules
simple
True…!
dew:
I wish more places in England applied rules like that!
ENGLAND, ENGLAND UEBER ALLES! Oops wrong country! Naive bigots■■? NEVER!!! 
jessicas dad:
Felixstowe is in England, the rules are in English… whats the problem.i deliver to a worldwide chemical company with depots all over the UK, and what astounds me is that every depot has a different health and safety policy and different type of warning alarms. i would have have thought a basic thing for a company would be to have a uniform warnings policy, but no every site i have to do an induction.
Brenntag?
weeto:
Was in a container depot in felixstowe yesterday, when waiting to book in I had a quick read of there site rules.
One was, If you dont have a full understanding of the English language, written or spoken, you cannot enter our site and will have to leave, due to health and safety reasons.
Never come across this particular rule before, a few places I have been to have multi lingual notices.
There are several users of this site who do not have a full understanding of English, and they were born here. 
Health and Safety, does that prevent foreigners using public transport or the tube?
weeto:
Was in a container depot in felixstowe yesterday, when waiting to book in I had a quick read of there site rules.
One was, If you dont have a full understanding of the English language, written or spoken, you cannot enter our site and will have to leave, due to health and safety reasons.
Never come across this particular rule before, a few places I have been to have multi lingual notices.
Might be “their site, their rules” but that wouldn’t allow them to try and enforce discriminatory rules.
part of the “benefits” of being in the EU is the freedom to work anywhere in it and I would guess that perhaps their sign could be regarded as discriminatory to anyone from Europe who doesn’t speak English.
I would think that if the site has hazards then these should be explained in languages that a visitor would understand.
I’ll also bet the rule would not apply to a visiting customer who was considering routing his boxes through there.
And whilst some of you are carping on about it should happen in more places here, consider what the outcome would be if the same were to apply to Brit drivers going abroad.
I don`t care what the rules are written in…I only do pictures and colour coding.
If they want me to start reading stuff, I need more pay for that, because surely that is more responsibility 
fair play to them i work out of felixstowe all the while and the eastern europeans get away with murder we have to abide by the rules and when they don’t and u say anything all u get is they do not understand let me say this they understand every thing and are just taking the p#ss out of us on the ro ro trls they get the longest runs and the lightest loads and when work is quiet it is the English who stands while johnny foreigner works and at night when u are parked up the most common language is polish and u are hard pressed to find a englishman to have a conversation with how can this be right sorry i forgot we live in england were every body has rights and free medical care except the working englishman
Professor:
fair play to them i work out of felixstowe all the while and the eastern europeans get away with murder we have to abide by the rules and when they don’t and u say anything all u get is they do not understand let me say this they understand every thing and are just taking the p#ss out of us on the ro ro trls they get the longest runs and the lightest loads and when work is quiet it is the English who stands while johnny foreigner works and at night when u are parked up the most common language is polish and u are hard pressed to find a englishman to have a conversation with how can this be right sorry i forgot we live in england were every body has rights and free medical care except the working englishman
the reason for this is: a lot of the english drivers are militant, jobsworth, moaning pricks. they love rules and regs, they love to say “i can’t do this, i can’t do that, that’s against the law” etc etc.
you give a pole a truck, and say “work it to [zb]”. and he will.
Wheel Nut:
weeto:
Was in a container depot in felixstowe yesterday, when waiting to book in I had a quick read of there site rules.
One was, If you dont have a full understanding of the English language, written or spoken, you cannot enter our site and will have to leave, due to health and safety reasons.
Never come across this particular rule before, a few places I have been to have multi lingual notices.There are several users of this site who do not have a full understanding of English, and they were born here.
Health and Safety, does that prevent foreigners using public transport or the tube?
+1 
thats not the case here limeyphil there are not too many english drivers left on the ro ro trls and while i agree with you do get some awkward and lazy drivers most of them are good workers and like me have been doing the job for years and a lot of them are owner drivers so they are not scared of a days hard graft i am not against all foreign drivers i get on well with the dutch and have a lot of respect for them and nearly all of them speak english the only reason the eastern block are used down the dock is on price and price alone they ship over and stay only going back when there derv has run out or vosa has caught them out on cabatage there is definitely not a level playing field down there in short they are putting the english out of work because the english can not complete on price and i suppose the yard with the notice is just making a stand i think you have to go down there or work out of there to see how big a problem there is and people have just had enough of it
Professor:
fair play to them i work out of felixstowe all the while and the eastern europeans get away with murder we have to abide by the rules and when they don’t and u say anything all u get is they do not understand let me say this they understand every thing and are just taking the p#ss out of us on the ro ro trls they get the longest runs and the lightest loads and when work is quiet it is the English who stands while johnny foreigner works and at night when u are parked up the most common language is polish and u are hard pressed to find a englishman to have a conversation with how can this be right sorry i forgot we live in england were every body has rights and free medical care except the working englishman
Bloody ell, I now need medical care. Don’t you know anything about commas & fullstops etc
Limeyphil…I know you are just pressing buttons, christ knows, I do it enough myself.
But I would like to give you a slap for that one 
sorry raymundo i now my grammer is crap i was not that sharp at school i was always too tired when i got there as i had been up hours before hand doing paper rounds and milk rounds money has always come first with me i just try and get my point accross
Rather strangely, this notice was printed on headed note paper of this storage yards biggest customer, and it’s a foreign owned company!!!