I was collecting a load from a company which will remain nameless yesterday.
While waiting i asked a lovely middle aged lady if it was alright if i used the kettle in the office kitchen to fill my flask,
she replied ‘I will have to do it for you because you’ve not been trained to use the kettle’
I said ‘are you joking’, she said 'it’s company policy (health and safety) only people that have been trained are allowed to use any electrical equipment.
To be honest she thought it was mad aswell,but rules are rules she said.
Is it me or are health and safety rules going completly over the top ■■?
Anybody else know of any barking mad rules ? this could turn out to be quite an amusing thread.
Told to wear a hard hat while 5 feet above ground level to unload off a tail lift at a builders merchants,not much use is a hat when you fall off the edge as the hat as no chin straps,so it will fall off.
He said he had to tell me in case his boss was about.
I turned up at Tesco in Belfast with a load of Bananas one night in a fridge trailer that I had to tip myself with a pump truck, I’d been there loads of times with varying loads, other types of fruit & veg:, etc.
Anyway this night, I had one pallet pulled out & put on the bay when this (Person) came along & asked me where my hard hat was!
I sort of laughed & said I didn’t have one as I’d never needed one.
Well you had better find one he said, because if you have no hard hat we cannot tip you, so I asked if they had one I could borrow, or if any staff member could tip my trailer & I would see them right!
No, was the short answer to that.
In the end, after lots of trying to be reasonable & general what the …■■ I had to put the pallet back on the truck that I had already unloaded (Without wearing a Hard Hat as well) & leave as my load was rejected!
I also got a ‘black mark’ for non conformance.
Needless to say the load was re-directed to another Tesco store in Southern Ireland, just ouside Dublin, where they laughed as much as me at the mere mention of a hard hat!!!
wearing shorts & t-shirt. Mansanto refused to load my container unless I wore boots,hat,goggles & overalls +hiVis. Didn’t even open the doors or close them.Sat in the cab the whole time.
Has all this started since an American lady sued a large burger company that starts with a “M”,she got millions for getting burnt on hot coffee,no warnings on the cup,but there are now.
Packet of peanuts,warning label-may contain nuts.
Fire brigade do not go up trees so much now to get cats down,have you ever seen a cats skeleton up a tree?
harry:
wearing shorts & t-shirt. Mansanto refused to load my container unless I wore boots,hat,goggles & overalls +hiVis. Didn’t even open the doors or close them.Sat in the cab the whole time.
I had to put overalls on the other day so that I didn’t get sun burnt. It was a cloudy but very muggy day on a site where you can only drink in the canteen so I risked heat exhaustion instead. But I’m glad I didn’t get sunburn
TTX boy:
… While waiting i asked a lovely middle aged lady if it was alright if i used the kettle in the office kitchen to fill my flask, she replied ‘I will have to do it for you because you’ve not been trained to use the kettle’
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Anybody else know of any barking mad rules ? this could turn out to be quite an amusing thread.
Hi TTX boy,
You’re not alone mate, I’ve had the ‘kettle’ experience too!!
there is a reason for the hard hat rule… it is so that there is an adequate container to collect your brains up off the ground in the unfortunate event of an accident. and whats left can be wiped up with your high viz… BUT , on no account must boiling water be used …
Was once in Sainsbury DC at stoke and the warehouse staff told a Stan Robinson driver that he would have to move the pallet truck as it was a health and safety hazard on the back of his vehicle. They weren’t allowed to move it. Initially they wanted him to pull off the bay and do it, the driver protested saying it wouldn’t be secure in a moving vehicle so they led him into the warehouse and he moved it for them.
No wonder the country is sha**ed
It’s almost as crazy as that here in Aus. I’m waiting for a ticket to be required to take a dump on site.
hard hats were developed for, and should only be used when there is a risk from overhead debris or striking your head on objects below head height, ie, building sites.
I just last week had to spend $500 on obtaining a forklift ticket, even though I have been operating them for 20 years and have never damaged a single thing with one.
I understand some OH &S regulations and even support some of it, including some licensing. But now I think it’s just become a way for lazy people to empire build themselves jobs in organisations, and for private companies to push governments for more legislation, which they can take advantage of, and offer more mandated courses in (ie, make more money).
