Health and Safety
My team has recently moved into a different office.

No problem, we rolled up our sleeves, got ourselves and our stuff moved into the new building and carried on as usual. That would be the end of it you would think.

Alas no!, My department has become infected with the plague of Health and Safety.

Since moving into our new office we have had to do the following.

1. Read and understand a 20 page A4 booklet on how to sit at our desks (including diagrams showing posture etc)
2. Fill out a 7 page form confirming we have read the 20 page booklet.
3. All our old chairs were condemed as unsuitable, so we ordered a job lot of 8 new chairs from the "approved" chair supplier.
4. Our chair order was cancelled by H&S on the grounds that we had ordered 8 chairs which were all the same and that "we are all different body shapes!".
5. We now each have an individual appointment with a H&S representative where we will be assesed for our seating needs and recommendations made as to what we should order.

This is just the chairs and desks.

I have been told my monitor is too far away from my eyes and I must have it closer by some 20 cm, We must have thicker blinds installed as the ones currently in place are too thin and could allow too much sunlight in thus making an eye hazard. I have been reprimanded for using a mouse without a mat, and my chosen position on the floor for my bin may be a trip hazard FOR A BLIND EMPLOYEE!!!! we have no blind employees and I am sure if we did that they would manage to avoid said bin which is in the corner of the room!

Our plants have been banned as a potential source of parasites and our mini fridge has been ordered to be scrapped as it has no PAT test certificate!

Our posters have been ordered to be removed or "correctly affixed" to the walls as blu tac is apparently not good enough and a poster falling, after a tragic blu tac failure may injure someone passing!

WHere have the elf and safety brigade gone too far with you?
( RadG Drinking Mojitos in the sun, Sat 1 May 2010, 18:33, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Yes, pick this
For some reason that is probably not good for my health, I enjoy anecdotes that get my blood pressure up. This topic would certainly manage that. Council Cunts was the same
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Sat 1 May 2010, 19:54, Reply)

I suspect
There'll be one or two good and funny responses in a sea of Richard Littlejohn style anecdote repetition and laughable ignorance.

It sounds like you had a pretty hard time of it, but one has to understand that Health and Safety regulators (quite rightly) think that it's a lot better to inconvenience a lot of people a bit than to let even one person get injured or killed through an avoidable accident.
(StapMyVitals wouldn't mind a bit of that, Sun 2 May 2010, 19:37, Reply)