Where does the money go
 

Your money goes on training the police how to climb 3ft up a ladder :D


Speed device police trained to climb 3ft up ladders - Lancashire Evening Post

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God help anyone doing DIY at home if this gets kind of stupidity gets worse. Installed wrong my left bum cheek its some jobsworth justifying their job. Soon with this mentality you wont be able to do odd jobs or even cook a meal around your home without an official certificate saying that you can.

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This Health and Safety lark is getting out of hand, sending coppers on a course to learn how to climb a 3 foot ladder, I hate to think what Firefighters are put through:( We're all going to hell on a hand cart.

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Happening everywhere, you have to have the training at the place I work for climbing ladders, blame health and safety, its all their doing

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They would be better off training to use stilts... at least they would be taller then:

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would be better spent training em to catch criminals.:rolleyes: ive been 6ft up a ladder this aft with no training, what a ****** i am.:D

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I think the newspaper worded the article to suit them. The people have been trained how to safely install/remove the signs. That includes using a ladder. Any employer that does not train its employees how to do a task safely is in breech of several laws put in place to protect the workers.

You could argue that they should not be using a ladder in the first place as a ladder is for access and is not a working platform.

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Cashy...In the trouble that we are in...why not send Gordon Brown up the ladder?

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Oh come on Roy he'd fall of to get the sympathy vote:D

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then steal the ladder and leave him stuck?? :D:D

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I know someone who had to go on a course to learn how to put the cones out for road works.

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It's ok to mock heath and safety laws but you lot would be the first to complain if some untrained bloke was killed while putting cones out at road works.

Health and safety law is their to protect the workers from being put in danger by companies more interested in making money that the welfare of staff.

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Ya Neil but even you have to admit they do take the pee with some of the things they come up with. How many health and safety engineers does it take to change a light bulb, none, at the moment they haven't set out the rules for changing light bulbs yet:D

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Its down to the company to decide who and what is the safe way to do it. ;)

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Well I only know it takes three in a hospital,(nurses aren't allowed to, health and safety you see) one to change the light bulb, one to hold the step ladder and a boss to show them which bulb wants changing:D

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As my brother was saying the other week, it is ultimately down to common sense. He is working as a caretaker and though he knows it is daft to stretch out whilst on a ladder it is what folks do. The "claim culture" is at fault here, if you have an accident through your own stupidity then you shoud accept the fault is yours. Not expect your employer to pay compensation. It is people who have genuine claims that feel loath to claim whilst some people will claim when they are well aware their claim is not genuine.

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Some intelligent people lack common sense.
I had to do health and safety inspections as part of my job.
Wires trailing across carpets and fire exits blocked by boxes were frequently found.
By giving staff training it provides the employer with reassurance that when accidents happen they can say 'did you do it in the safe way we showed you?' - if 'no'= no compen!

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come on margaret get real, they aint gonna say no when asked.:rolleyes:

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When putting cones out they are usually on the back of a low loader just dropping them, collecting them is when they are on the road but no training to do that.( Just repeating what I have been told and also seen)

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I also was in charge of Accident Book entries. Names of Witnesses to accidents form part of the book entry - and they can be called to give evidence in litigation.

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Sounds like a dangerous high risk task that needs adequate training then.