I was doing some contract work yesterday, and had need to borrow a step ladder, the site chargehand was on his mealbreak (aka sleeping), so I convinced the nice security man to let me into the inner sanctum to borrow it. This inner sanctum was a generator battery room, and the security man said 'notice that new rubber mat', there was a pristine ridged rubber mat on the floor, 'that's to stop engineer's from being electrocuted when working on the power connections... but they are not allowed to use it, because it is a health&safety risk, they might trip over it you see!!.. ' , chortle, chortle...
so I used the ladder, didn't harm myself at all, and when I told the chargehand where I had left it, he said, sorry, but you're not allowed to use it at all, even I have to fill out a risk-assesment form before I can use it........!!!!!
crazy crazy crazy world