I think...
that the HSE was a fantastic idea about 40 years ago when we had "proper" jobs- like mining, oil-drilling, badger raping etc. These days if you're lucky to have a job- its more likely that you'll suffer a major paper cut or be subjected to back injury from badly designed chairs.

The HSE exists these days because it became such a monster; to restructure it to today's standards would require half the civil servants losing their jobs- and we all know that won't happen.

Abolutlely no offense to Kaol- but I feel the same way as the original poster. I'm required to sit thru an afternoon of lectures once a year about "monitor position", senseable shoes and not running with scissors.

The rest of the 364 3/4 days I work in an environment surrounded by acids (that can reduce arms to smouldering bone in minutes), solvents that are so poisonous nobody knows what they smell like and pesticides where you have to work in another room before you can even open the flask (tricky that last one).

Bah- give me dusty, petroleum smelling raped badgers anyday.
(bugboybeast, Tue 10 Feb 2009, 17:19, Reply)