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Health and Safety madness at Costas
thorr
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Well maybe not madness - but when I recently purchased a seasonal latte with towering cream, the server went to put on the lid - but I didn't want squashed cream, so told him not to worry about the lid. But he was quite insistent - citing the health and safety rules for justification! The lid lasted on the cup for approx 5 seconds, and despite dicing with certain injury, managed to successfully consume said beverage with no mishap. phew!
strangely, those with the potentially more dangerous china cups did not have lids!
Anyone else subject to similar crazy rules?
strangely, those with the potentially more dangerous china cups did not have lids!
Anyone else subject to similar crazy rules?
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However, there is a large poster on the wall outside saying "No Food or Drinks to be consumed past this door due to Health & Safety."
Most, but not all of this c*ap they spout is a load of old fa*ny.
No, I think it's as a result of us following the States down the rabbit hole of compulsive litigation.
Aaah right. Thank you Sir Stoat.
At one BP office I visited, the rules included having to reverse into parking spaces and any drink that was being carried had to have a lid on. There was also rule about always having a free hand when walking up stairs.
They are not official - like the fictictious "kids to wear goggles when playing conkers" which was made up by a headmaster so he could claim it was "H&S gone mad:mad:"
On a very crowded Taiwanese local type train once we had the same problem at a station. Hundreds more were trying to get on at same time.
We were completely trapped.
Being near the end of the last carriage, the savvy locals near us simply opened the back door, above the tracks, jumped down, then up to the platform.
So we did too
This is one of my gripes about trains. Health and Safety policies are everywhere, but seem to not apply to overcrowding and standing on buses and trains. I dread to think of the consequences of face to glass standing on a commuter train if there was a crash. It's all a farce, same with disability policies. One of the reasons I had to finish work was the nightmare journey to and from work on overcrowded commuter trains. Politicians should get out of their cars and try a piece of the real world. Rant over.
The States are not as health and safety conscious as we nanny Brits are!!! The States, by and large, rely on each citizen, as MATURE ADULTS, to look out for themselves regarding health and safety, whereas, the Brits seem to rely on the government here to tell them how to live every second of their lives, because the Brits havent got one single brain cell to think for themselves!!!
Yeah all Brits are like that.
Are you sure about that? Sounds utter nonsense to me.
Total crap there is no nanny state or excessive H&S legislation. Apart from a few minor updates here and there H&S legislation has changed very little in the last forty years. Most of the the crap in the papers about ELF n Safety gone mad is about self imposed rules to avoid the risk of litigation and has very little about acctual safety. A lot of the stories are also the result of a single incident involving a lone official who can't be bothered too do their job so make up some non existent rule which the papers re tell without checking the facts.
It is utter nonsense. http://www.osha.gov/
At my coffee shop in Seattle we had to put lids on cups too.
Sorry, TVGirl
Thats my point!! In the USA all employers and retailers, commercial businesses and the service industry has OSHA breathing down their necks, so everyone over there had better tow the line and look out for themselves regarding health and safety, because if OSHA gets involved, then God help you!! OSHA has the power to enforce health and safety measures on your business or you can risk multi-million dollar lawsuits and even have your business closed down by the government!!
Over here, its all a lot of hot wind, because theres no OSHA-type government agency over here!!
I might be crazy, but this post appears to completely contradict post 13.
It's the compensation culture :mad: :mad: we're in that has created the issues.
Insurance cover has increased due to the "Get rich quick brigade" :mad: :mad:
No you're not crazy.
Thank god. I was almost worried.
Well, you are a little bit, but then so am I