Oh dear, even a hardened cynic such as myself was a tad surprised/gobsmacked by a recent piece of Nanny health and safety nonsense concerning magazines in a dentist's waiting room.
For reasons best known to Nanny, one of her NHS infection control workers recently advised Monica Symes, a dentist in Lyme Regis, to get rid of old magazines from her waiting room because they posed an infection risk.
For good measure the Nanny clone also said that the Blu-Tack being used to stick posters to the walls also posed a health risk.
I appreciate that people are nervous when visiting the dentist (I myself have to consume a bucketful of vodka before going anywhere near one), but I doubt very much that people start to lick the magazines of chew on Blu-Tack whilst waiting.
Unsurprisingly, since the media furore erupted over this nonsense, Nanny's NHS regulator has denied any such health and safety rule exists!
For reasons best known to Nanny, one of her NHS infection control workers recently advised Monica Symes, a dentist in Lyme Regis, to get rid of old magazines from her waiting room because they posed an infection risk.
For good measure the Nanny clone also said that the Blu-Tack being used to stick posters to the walls also posed a health risk.
I appreciate that people are nervous when visiting the dentist (I myself have to consume a bucketful of vodka before going anywhere near one), but I doubt very much that people start to lick the magazines of chew on Blu-Tack whilst waiting.
Unsurprisingly, since the media furore erupted over this nonsense, Nanny's NHS regulator has denied any such health and safety rule exists!
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Which must pose the question, why does anyone take any notice of these bastard health and safety ‘experts’?
ReplyDeleteThey do not follow rules or guidelines; they simply make up this type of shite as they go along.
Personally, I think that stories like this should prompt everyone that is ever faced with a health and safety decision to question it and ask for definitive proof that the decision is valid and not a result of the ‘experts’ stupidity or prejudice.
This story again illustrates perfectly, the folly of giving power to those that are neither intelligent nor sophisticated enough to use it wisely.
ReplyDeleteSome people just like to boss or bully others......Many of these Nanny jobs facilitates this need.
"They do not follow rules or guidelines; they simply make up this type of shite as they go along"
ReplyDeleteWhich is why the HSE have a section of their website dedicated to investigating this sort of fuckwittery:
http://www.hse.gov.uk/contact/myth-busting.htm
I'd like to blue tac all of the magazines to her gob
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