Oh dear, the health and safety Gestapo have been at work again. This time they have stomped with their size ten jackboots on plans for a wet T-shirt nights at Yesteryear Pub Company's Maloney cocktail bars.
Seemingly Nanny is worried that people may catch colds from the wetness of the T shirts!
The Managing Director, Tony Callaghan, is quoted:
"There'll be no titillation in Bolton,
Oldham, St Helens or Wigan.
It seems that legislation and the threat
of legal action is proving to be a massive
killjoy in this day and age.
We have been advised that people getting wet
may have grounds to sue if they catch pneumonia,
wet floors may cause staff or customers to slip
and sustain injury, and some of the better endowed
participants may cause blokes to drop their drinks.
There are also electrical issues, privacy issues
relating to the publication of unauthorised
photography and even the possibility
of being cited in divorce actions."
The company's health and safety manager, Sue McCabe, has told management that the nights could only take place under strict conditions and only if every customer signed a disclaimer.
It seems that one key condition of staging a wet T-shirt contest is that people don't get wet. Which is kind of farking stupid, as that's the whole point of a wet T shirt contest.
Are we all going to sit around like sheep (do sheep sit around?), and allow Nanny to stop us doing every little thing that we once took for granted?
Now this is what I am talking about:
Here is the remix version:
I just wonder what type of person takes a conscious decision to become an 'Elf n Safety officer or manager. These people need to get out and take a risk or two and get a life.
ReplyDeletetonk said: I just wonder what type of person takes a conscious decision to become an 'Elf n Safety officer or manager. These people need to get out and take a risk or two and get a life.
ReplyDeleteI wonder just how kosher half these people are. I somehow managed to stumble across an internet discussion group for health and safety officers, and it was full of them complaining about the unqualified 'Elf 'n Safety' (yes, they used that phrase as well) officers who come up with these barmy decisions and give the real professionals a bad name.
Spot on John, the problem being that totally unqualified people are allowed to perform risk assessments, they do not have a clue about how to do it, and just think up the worst possible scenario and ban the activity!
ReplyDeleteThey're all a load of wets!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.iosh.co.uk/index.cfm?go=news.release&id=274
ReplyDeletehttp://www.iosh.co.uk/index.cfm?go=discussion.view&forum=1&thread=30009&page=721
ReplyDeleteAre you sure it is real 'Elf and safety'?
ReplyDeleteIt sounds more like feminist 'if men like it then ban it' in disguise.