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Originally Posted by Barrie Yates
Sorry G but should have also said - depends what age is accepted as young - the ages on the headstones around Arnhem seemed to have a majority who were early 20s and younger.
No H & S for them, is it supended during war?
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My grandfather was twenty two when he was killed in Normandy, leaving my nan pregnant with my mother. So yes I'm aware that young men, and women, suffer in times of war.
All I'm saying is that I disagree with Jaysay's rather naive assumption that people have a choice when asked to do some particular job, and that if they think it's dangerous, they should tell their boss to stick their job.
Sometimes life isn't that black and white.
Inexperience might mean you aren't able to make an informed decision, when asked to do something.
H & S legislation is there to (hopefully) ensure employers have a legal obligation, that the people who work for them have a safe as possible working environment.
I've posted earlier, much H & S seems daft, or just common sense, but there is a need for some legal requirement that employee safety is addressed.
If they'd had it in the nineteenth century, they'd have probably forced the mill owners to make sure the little mites who were employed to clean the moving looms, wore little hats, to lesson the chances of 'em being scalped.
Which they frequently were.
