WTF is up with all this health and safety crap in the UK?

Ok Seriously, What is up with health and saftey laws in the UK? It's become completely rediculous, I went to go buy some shelving today and the guy there said "Oh no, we don't cut here, health and safety". I called two other places and they said the same thing. Since when do timber companies not cut timber. Are they afraid of cutting themselves? I mean wha? I was speechless. Ok your saying big saws, danger, possibilitiy of severed limbs, ok fine. But It just reminds me that I was fined by the Edinburgh counsel for having a welcome matt in front of my flat door, because it constituted a tripping hazard and violated the health and safety laws! Oh my F'ing christ! Are you kidding me? They have warning signs in Waitrose about always putting your grapes in a plastic bag because "Loose grapes can be a dangerous tripping hazard". I know I'm not the only one that notices this. Have people become that lame that they cant just toughen up and get on with shit? Just be careful when your doing stuff, even then your going to mess it up and hurt yourself sometimes, deal with it! The list of health and safety rules goes on into infinity, It's comical. Thank god there's no health and safety laws pertaining to Polo, I'd be screwed.

They are laws bought in by the EU. This is why you should have voted BNP last Thursday.

but it's not illegal to jay walk

you shop in Waitrose?
posh bastard.

Thank god there's no health and safety laws pertaining to Polo, I'd be in much better physical condition than is presently the case.

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Litigation, my friend. Blame the Americans!

H&S laws have much more to do with America than they do with the EU. Most H&S laws are in fact regulations, bought in by companies to safeguard their employees. Or more accurately, to safeguard themselves from their own employees. They rarely ever relate to actual laws other than an expectation that reasonable safety measures be taken.

The problem really lies with the onflux of litigious culture from the US where people are a bunch of greed cunts who see quick cash options when they were stupid in front of someone else.

Yeah... +1.
if the Yanks didn't sue each other every 5 seconds.... we prob wouldnt have all this H&S crap.

people moaning about everything and trying to find someone to blame other than themselves.

they are there to protect you. as you are an imigrant

Rules are there to be broken... the HSE advise companies on measures that need to be in place to avoid a claim being made against them, companies and government then lobby for more regulations that are "reasonable".

Unfortunately devising an over-riding "I'd like to live my life as I see fit and give up my right to an idiotic claim" standpoint is proving difficult.

It's to guard against the common sense-less.

Natural selection is stopped in its tracks.

so we are entering another phase of evolution,
lets call it devolution, yeah the theory of devolution,
in which the common sense less (made so by persistant lack of expectation)
are so incapable of doing anything that they are becoming more useless,
years of social security, general levels of wealth mean that people asking and getting hand outs are now making humans lose the faculties we developed when hunter gatherers.
if people had been unproductive-useful in ages past they would have been left to fend for themselves--and if they couldnt then they didnt survive.............

H&S laws have much more to do with America than they do with the EU. Most H&S laws are in fact regulations, bought in by companies to safeguard their employees. Or more accurately, to safeguard themselves from their own employees. They rarely ever relate to actual laws other than an expectation that reasonable safety measures be taken.

The problem really lies with the onflux of litigious culture from the US where people are a bunch of greed cunts who see quick cash options when they were stupid in front of someone else.

Wrong. It's the EU and the immigrants fault.

Fucking yanks hipster sueing Bianchi for letting them ride their bike without a brakes and end up having an accident, now they have to put an inept sticker on the top tube of the bike!

Health and Safety law is what stops workers getting fucked in the arse.

Health and Safety gone mad is companies protecting themselves from an over-litigious legal system.

There's nothing wrong with litigation except that there isn't enough of it.

Health and Safety law is what stops workers getting fucked in the arse.

Health and Safety gone mad is companies protecting themselves from an over-litigious legal system.

True Dat. Get your arse out into industry; say shipyards, mines, foundries etc. This is where H&S makes a difference, as in saving peoples lives. The same old boys who talk about 'just getting the job done' will also be able to regale you with plenty of stories involving death, paralysis, amputation etc.

Yeah, the shit we see in our daily benign lives is annoying but let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. That may lead to death or serious injury to the infant along with creating a slipping hazard.

YouTube - Mad As Hell ...

Fucking yanks hipster sueing Bianchi for letting them ride their bike without a brakes and end up having an accident, now they have to put an inept sticker on the top tube of the bike!

That sticker is awesome, i want one.

where the fuck do you buy your wood? Of course timber yards cut wood, you just don't know the right hand shake

^ Waitrose...

That sticker is awesome, i want one.

T shirt, anyone?

The guy thought "cut my wood" was a euphemism...

so we are entering another phase of evolution,
lets call it devolution, yeah the theory of devolution,
in which the common sense less (made so by persistant lack of expectation)
are so incapable of doing anything that they are becoming more useless,
years of social security, general levels of wealth mean that people asking and getting hand outs are now making humans lose the faculties we developed when hunter gatherers.
if people had been unproductive-useful in ages past they would have been left to fend for themselves--and if they couldnt then they didnt survive.............

Scary. Including the elderley, disabled, unemployed, gypsies etc?