Health & Safety Authority suffers major downturn in business.

AlekSmart

It appears that the Health and Safety Agency is not immune to the effects of the Depression either.

Reports from Limerick appear to indicate that it has now decided to branch out into work left vacant by the demise of the Holy Mother Church,namely the policing of licentuous and inflamatory material which may offend the morals of the population...or in this instance the sole-trader and occupier of the premises in question.

Can somebody please remind me again who the CEO of this crowd is and how much he/she is drawing from the public purse ?

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/garage-owner-warned-over-pornographic-calendar-2087067.html

conorhal

Well now that the church has lost all moral authority somebody has to be there to rap you on the knuckles with a ruler and tell you that you're going to go blind if you do that! (or that you should at least be wearing safety goggles)

'elf and Safety - It's like secular Catholicism, all the guilt and none of the redemption.

BluePlanet

Bizarre.
I hope the guy doesn't remove it and fights back.

Victor

Under the old act, if there was an employee, this could be considered inappropriate, um, I imagine harassment, whether the employee was male or female.

Under the current act, H&S rules extend to third parties, typically customers, suppliers and neighbours.

AlekSmart

Indeed Victor,but just take a look at this Gentleman`s premises as featured in today`s article......

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/officials-back-down-over-storm-in-a-dcup-2088039.html

Not a Cappuccino machine to be seen.......

It is this lad and his likes that are actually keeping the country afloat at the moment,the few thousand "Small Businesses" that are trying to keep working through the Hi-Flyer Induced Depression.

They deserve better than to have half-witted twattery like this dumped upon them by what may well be local confraternity members with a hang-up about the female body.

On the other hand.....Mrs Smart frequents (Perhaps a tad too frequently !!) a small garage which displays last years Dublin Fire Brigade calendar....disgraceful stuff which I`m glad to see the DFB management have stamped-out this year...ably assisted no doubt by the HSA... :mad:

donkey balls

Matt Cooper had the poor man on the radio last night and he explained to matt that some of the pics he had up were over 30 years old and that the models would be grannys by now.

the HSA have the authority to close premises if found to be contavening h&s laws yet when i reported serious defective equipment to them being used by a company i worked for not one officer called out.

AlekSmart

Matt Cooper had the poor man on the radio last night and he explained to matt that some of the pics he had up were over 30 years old and that the models would be grannys by now.

It would be interesting to know the SP on the HSA "Official" that visited the Workshop in question as If I were the HSA I`d be more worried about the Health and Stability of it`s own staff than any possible H&S "issues" with the Pirelli Calendar :eek:

donkey balls

AlekSmart wrote: »

It would be interesting to know the SP on the HSA "Official" that visited the Workshop in question as If I were the HSA I`d be more worried about the Health and Stability of it`s own staff than any possible H&S "issues" with the Pirelli Calendar :eek:

might get flamed for this it appears that the officer was a female now
thank fully through out my career i have had no dealings with them,but my mate who is a H&S officer for a very large company deals with the HSA&EPA and the things he does tell me when they come out for audits in his words their clueless and the officer in the above case was standing on her soap box.

CFlower

donkey balls wrote: »

Matt Cooper had the poor man on the radio last night and he explained to matt that some of the pics he had up were over 30 years old and that the models would be grannys by now.

the HSA have the authority to close premises if found to be contavening h&s laws yet when i reported serious defective equipment to them being used by a company i worked for not one officer called out.

Marlene on the wall, eh.

It's OK in newsagents, but not in garages ?

Bananas.

Victor

donkey balls wrote: »

might get flamed for this it appears that the officer was a female now

So, it was her work place also then?

AlekSmart

Thankfully it appears the HSA "Inspector" appears to have had her crackpot decision overturned,or at least over-ruled by her superiors.

As other posters have noted the scarce Publicly Funded resources of this agency are required up and down the land in many seriously deficient areas.

For example,the ability of the Construction Industry to largely ignore H&S legislation during our "boom" years is the stuff of legend,if not actual record.
Yet during this time the zeal of the H&S Inspectors was notably muted with their main role being the carrying out of Investigations AFTER some unfortunate construction or farmworker had lost their life.

Sadly this episode,for me,confirms my suspicion of another ship-of-state adrift with nobody at the helm !