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I'm all for H&S btw I've seen a few bad incidents and the aftermath...
I have posted about this on another thread
My mate has a theory that H&S allows the idiot genes to continue on to future generations, by protecting the Homer Simpsons of the world.
ie stupid creatures were in the past superceded by the cleverer more adaptable ones, but now it'll end up with the idiots killing off the smarter people by the accidents they cause, eventually the idiots outnumbering the more intelligent people until they in turn are killed off by each other!
It's already started!
last year in Ireland a H&S man wanted someone I know to stop reaching up, no steps/ platforms onsite at all, so the lad was reaching up to grab a cable
He was standing on one foot at ground level up against a corner holding onto a steel frame for balance, leaning slightly as there was a bit of wall jutting out
Safety guy stopped him, He said he was concerned he could fall and he was going to check if it required him to wear a harness!
This from a bloke we saw most nights weaving and wobbling often into the road on his way home from the village pub after a skinful of Murphy's
There were plans afoot to get him one night put a harness on him and attach it to a lampost, for safety reasons .......