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Santa hats are dangerous!

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BigSi:
Isn’t there a programme on TV at the moment about H&S? Managed to catch a glimpse of a guy who was saying that you wouldn’t catch him standing under a hanging basket due to the H&S implications incase it fell!!!! There was also a guy rabbiting on about a knife in a bowl of washing up suds or something! No actually thinking about it, I think I saw it on Harry ‘Hill’s TV Burp’  :roll: :shock: [-X :doh:

mike142sl:

--- Quote from: thermidorthelobster on December 03, 2008, 19:04:40 ---The correct response to any sentence containing the phrase "health and safety reasons" is:  "What reasons are those exactly then?"

If they can't explain what the reasons are, then they don't exist.  IMHO it usually means "I don't want you to do that, but I can't be bothered to explain why, so I'm going to tell you it's for health and safety reasons and hope you don't actually question it."  Call their bluff.

--- End quote ---
Spot On

I used to be a H&S officer and have a couple of qualifications in the subject. It still irks when I hear the old H&S 'excuse' argument like this which is so obviously a load of old bull. No one seems to be able to undertake risk assesments these days just hazard identification.

Ask to see the risk assesment that has been carried out on the wearing of hats, festive or otherwise. If they can't they have no grounds under H&S to ask you not to wear it.

merlin617:
I think that a far more serious issue has been missed here.
If the gentleman who started this thread has been told that he cannot wear his santa hat at work due to health and safety reasons, then where does this leave Santa on Christmas eve?
Dear old Santa is going to set off from the north pole in his sledge which is capable of attaining a very high mach number wearing no more head protection than what is in effect a fancy bobble hat. This along with his apparent disregard for air traffic control procedures must raise serious health and safety issues  :shock:

muddyjames:
This is very true Merlin and one I had not thought of!  :doh:

What happens if his hat blows off at mach speed and floats down and lands on a cars windscreen going along a motorway. Could be disasterous!

old joe:
LETS SUE SANTA :twisted:

Dazza :twisted:

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