Unbelievable story of the day..

[Chris J Dixon]

Even more fundamentally, there is a knee-jerk tendency simply to cry "Health & Safety" without even contemplating a proper assessment of the risk.

Having had jobs, in the railway field, where formal Risk Assessments were an integral part of the daily work, I have some understanding of what may be happening. The real problem is clearly the unwillingness or inability of people to follow ALARP (Risk should be as low as reasonably practicable - practicality is important) - and then having the confidence to put their name on the document.

Chris

[David Hansen]

On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 07:29:18 +0100 someone who may be Chris J Dixon wrote this:-

It is a problem. If anything goes wrong then a battalion of lawyers will be hovering around scenting money, one's superiors will have run for cover and empty vessels will be speaking loudly.

I designed an emergency lighting scheme yesterday. It will not comply with the European Standard for a distance of 30cm either side of a room, where the lighting levels will be a little below that specified in the standard (though they will be way above the UK Derogation on that standard). I don't think it reasonable to add another row of luminaires to make up this 30cm, for several reasons. If it comes to court I will state what those reasons are and see what view the jury/Hutton take.