My brother is working for a subby of a large haulage company. The truck he drives is in the company colours, So the staff don’t really know who’s a subby and who’s not.
He’s lost count about the amount of times Mr jobsworth has come running over likes he’s been told the Russians are invading, Only to be told that the important issue of this century is he isn’t wearing the company uniform. It came as something of a surprise to the jobsworth that my brother was already aware that he wasn’t wearing a uniform. It turns out that Mr jobsworth has several cousins around the country, Every depot in fact.
But here’s the one that takes the biscuit. Mr jobsworth senior came running over to explain the finer points of exiting a cab. Well after 26 years of entering and exiting lorries i think he’s got the hang of it.
It turns out that Mr jobsworth seniors job is to watch how people get in and out of lorries. That’s what he does for his whole shift.
No wonder there’s a recession when companies insist on employing none productive jobsworths, We’re doomed.
Can that not be integrated into a H&S Manager job description? :-/
Sad thing is all the companies are doing is reacting to the fact everyone is ready to sue for compensation at the drop of a hat when in reality in many of the accidents they should grow up and take responsibility for their actions.
switchlogic:
Sad thing is all the companies are doing is reacting to the fact everyone is ready to sue for compensation at the drop of a hat when in reality in many of the accidents they should grow up and take responsibility for their actions.
Lafarge comes to mind, if you sneeze someone will be watching you & make sure you have got a tissue, if not you will have to leave site & blow your nose in a lay by !!!
Lafarge just go on overkill. I had the fork lift driver in portbury screaming at me wo wo wo, you can kill someone. My crime you ask? 12 empty whites on the headboard ffs. Luke’s right, we’ve had so many claims on here that we have to wear a hard hat and goggles to couple up and open container doors 
I’m sure there’s a guy with a sniper rifle scope, stands behind the office windows all day watching truck drivers in the yard at United Biscuits in Ashby. 
At a well known haulage company that spent a lot of money repainting everything a different shade of blue, Mr Jobsworth approached in his sparkling top-of-the-range Hi-viz, to remonstrate with me for letting the trailer landing (flat) feet down so that they straddled a six inch wide steel drainage griddle that crossed the yard. It was politely pointed out to him that while this might perhaps not be the best idea, it was in fact the only section of griddle that wasn’t rotten and wouldn’t arranging for all of it to be replaced be a better concern for him.
10 years later it was still the same - actually it was worse.
I sometimes jump from the top step if I’m feeling in a good mood.
You cant blame these big companies with their strict approach to H&S, theres too many people out there looking to earn a quick buck they cant take any chances, its not just money its their company image at stake as well.
True. These no win no fee companies should be shut down. All they do is cause silly H&S rules and push up insurance premiums. Too many people laying blame on anyone other than themselves.
switchlogic:
Sad thing is all the companies are doing is reacting to the fact everyone is ready to sue for compensation at the drop of a hat when in reality in many of the accidents they should grow up and take responsibility for their actions.
You’re not wrong.
It’s about time these insurance companies stopped settling claims out of court. I expect that most solicitors wouldn’t risk a court case, They know they wouldn’t win.
If i fall out of a lorry, Then it’s my fault.
These health and safety people are really on another planet tipped this morning in Chef Direct at Didcot the is a sign there listing what must be worn and includes the sentence “Hi- viz and toe tectors must be worn at all times(safety shoes or boots).” Why not just put safety shoes in the first place they seem to enjoy speaking gobbledook as well as bo##ocks
bloody lafarge! i reversed 5 meters without a banksman and got banned from the site!!!
To me there are two main problems with every day life in the UK, especially for people who drive for a living. One is the obsession with prosecuting people for small trivial deviations of the law, such as going 43mph in a 40 zone or not stopping in time at a red light and getting flashed for going through one second too late and that sort of thing. The other is the H&S culture of jobsworths that make the company you are delivering to or loading at so slow and inefficient that you in turn get so little done because of all the red tape and dogma of following procedure and when you spread that out nationwide across so many different sectors it can’t be good for the economy at large and its no wonder we struggle to compete against practically any other nation economically as they dont participate in even a fraction as much of this nonsense as the UK does.
Last company I worked at, no names but it starts with a ‘S’ & ends with an ‘O’ (& it’s got ‘ERC’ in the middle) wanted us to fill out as many Near Miss Forms as possible.
The philosophy being-‘‘For every Accident there should be x amount of Near Miss’s’’.
They would insist on each of us Supervisors handing in 5 Near Miss’s a week, which could be for anything. But it seemed to us they just wanted to catch the employees out so they could Discipline them. Suffice to say they did’nt get many & the one’s that we did hand in were so Petty, to do with Leaves on the Road or a couple of plasters short in the first aid boxes.
Everything had to be Risk Assesed.
We had an Amnesty on Drugs, anyone who owned up was taken off the rounds/Bins & made to work in the yard for a month on easy duties (until they were clear, ‘FFS’ it was only a bit of weed)
One of the Managers had to show one Lad how to wash windows. 1st he showed him how to apply the soap onto the cloth, then how to put it on the window, then how to dry it off followed by how to Buff it up. He also had to get all the COSH information on the window cleaning solution to make sure it was approved by our company. Best of all though was when he told the poor Lad that he could’nt use a Ladder (A Window Cleaner who’s not allowed a ladder 
) Before this (let’s call him a Six Year Old, because that’s how the treat them) Six Year Old can start work cleaning those ‘Dangerous Windows’ The Risk Assessment needs to be filed (just in case anything happens) & every aspect of the task is taken into consideration then scored against probability of Danger or even Death.
So just to wash a few windows, instead or ‘Just Getting on with it’ or paying a window cleaner £50 it probably cost the best part of £250 by the time the Manager had finished ■■■■■■■ About.
I stuck with this company for just over a year & was glad to be Rid of it when I left to go back on the road driving wagons again. 
Lafarge over here is just as bad …you will sacked on the spot (i have seen it so i know its true) for driving without safety belt on ,even reversing…reversing without banksman 2 reports and your gone.Gloves/googles ,boots,reflective crap must be worn in yard if out of vehicle,even if you go into office!!
limeyphil:
My brother is working for a subby of a large haulage company. The truck he drives is in the company colours, So the staff don’t really know who’s a subby and who’s not.
He’s lost count about the amount of times Mr jobsworth has come running over likes he’s been told the Russians are invading, Only to be told that the important issue of this century is he isn’t wearing the company uniform. It came as something of a surprise to the jobsworth that my brother was already aware that he wasn’t wearing a uniform. It turns out that Mr jobsworth has several cousins around the country, Every depot in fact.
But here’s the one that takes the biscuit. Mr jobsworth senior came running over to explain the finer points of exiting a cab. Well after 26 years of entering and exiting lorries i think he’s got the hang of it.
It turns out that Mr jobsworth seniors job is to watch how people get in and out of lorries. That’s what he does for his whole shift.
No wonder there’s a recession when companies insist on employing none productive jobsworths, We’re doomed.
Just do what the company ask and have a quiet life ,they want you to wear the company uniform so as long as the company provide it what is the problem,would you rather go out and pay £££££££ out of your own pocket 
,as for getting in and out of the cab,well I guess the fact he wasn’t wearing the company uniform made him stand out like a sore thumb,if he had been wearing the company uniform the bloke in the office wouldn’t have given him a second glance.
Dozy is a good name. Re read the post you quoted. He doesn’t work for said company, just drives a truck in their colours for a subbie 
limeyphil:
Mr jobsworth senior came running over to explain the finer points of exiting a cab. .
i would of ask mr jobsworth if i could show him on ’ how to exit his office’ correctly. two can play at thoise silly rules 
these claim things are the blame for the h&S crap we have to put up with, a mate of my dads who worked in a steel warehouse, used to go around looking for areas where he could cut himself and make a claim!! few weeks off work with full pay and then a payout, at least 4 times he as admitted to my dad that he as done this on purpose