Sometimes they like to face off against each other in H+S
One area at work ('Lab Cars')involved a lot of standing around doing dull unintersting but essential tasks in a locked workshop with no chairs. Slowly chairs were appropriated from elsewhere and turned up in the Lab Car area, and the ability to sit down instead of standing about for a few hours at a time greatly improved the task of those required to work there. Except the H+S official clocked this and issued an edict that all chairs must be removed as his risk assessment said chair legs were a trip hazard. The chairs were dutifully (and grudgingly) removed. Except then one of the other H+S people was doing a risk assessment of the original facility and declared that people standing around for long periods of time completely stationary put them at risk of Deep Vein Thrombosis. Chairs returned.

On the other hand one H+S risk assessment said that the hot water coming out of the hot taps was of a temperature that could cause scalding so the thermostat on the boiler was moderated down. That was, until another risk assessment said that the reduced temperature increased the probability of Legionella virus thriving in the system. It was turned back up to OW FUCK temperature. And no plugs to mix the hot and cold in the basin.
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Fri 28 Mar 2014, 20:14, Reply)