BS: Elf 'n' safety gorn mad again

Subject: BS: Elf 'n' safety gorn mad again
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 04 Mar 13 - 05:59 AM

Just bought a new electric shaver:
""not intended for use by persons with reduced physical, sensory or mental capabilities or lack of experience or knowledge". It also warns when cleaning it:" Always check if the water is not too hot to prevent your hands from getting burnt".
Perhaps I should just grow a beard.

RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Elf 'n' safety gorn mad again
From: mayomick
Date: 04 Mar 13 - 06:30 AM

Roger , do not eat the shaver while it is connected to the mains socket.

Subject: RE: BS: Elf 'n' safety gorn mad again
From: GUEST,SPB at work
Date: 04 Mar 13 - 06:48 AM

The problem is the litigation industry is so big that everyone needs to cover their backs.

Subject: RE: BS: Elf 'n' safety gorn mad again
From: gnu
Date: 04 Mar 13 - 06:53 AM

SPB... mine has a rechargeable battery so I am good to go if I get hungry?

Subject: RE: BS: Elf 'n' safety gorn mad again
From: melodeonboy
Date: 04 Mar 13 - 07:30 AM

Be careful! The shaver may contain traces of nuts!

Subject: RE: BS: Elf 'n' safety gorn mad again
From: Wolfhound person
Date: 04 Mar 13 - 08:14 AM

the instructions certainly do "contain traces of nuts", Melodeonboy, you're right there!

Paws

Subject: RE: BS: Elf 'n' safety gorn mad again
From: TheSnail
Date: 04 Mar 13 - 08:22 AM

No, it's the Hoover Dustette that contains traces of nuts.

Subject: RE: BS: Elf 'n' safety gorn mad again
From: GUEST,Peter
Date: 04 Mar 13 - 08:30 AM

No warnings with my razor, just a straight blade capable of opening my jugular if my hand slips.

Subject: RE: BS: Elf 'n' safety gorn mad again
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 04 Mar 13 - 09:33 AM

Dustette's contain traces of everything, in fact everyone in the world is allergic to them.

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: Elf 'n' safety gorn mad again
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 04 Mar 13 - 10:25 AM

I hope that you carry out a full risk assessment before you shave. If you injure yourself and take yourself to court, not being aware of the risk is not an acceptable defence so you could have to pay yourself a lot of compensation

Subject: RE: BS: Elf 'n' safety gorn mad again
From: gnu
Date: 04 Mar 13 - 11:30 AM

SPB... I am good for it and it suits my devil-may-care attitude.

Subject: RE: BS: Elf 'n' safety gorn mad again
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 04 Mar 13 - 01:07 PM

My shaver has a rechargeable battery and it can be rinsed under the tap. Instructions say not to rinse it while recharging...

Subject: RE: BS: Elf 'n' safety gorn mad again
From: GUEST,999
Date: 04 Mar 13 - 01:21 PM

"No warnings with my razor, just a straight blade capable of opening my jugular if my hand slips."

That is near criminal. They didn't even have the decency to inform you it's sharp.

Subject: RE: BS: Elf 'n' safety gorn mad again
From: Dead Horse
Date: 04 Mar 13 - 02:00 PM

Beards can be dangerous too.
They can lead to beer drinking & (gasp) Morris Dancing!

Subject: RE: BS: Elf 'n' safety gorn mad again
From: GUEST,Lavengro
Date: 05 Mar 13 - 05:57 AM

@Rodger the Skiffler

"not intended for use by persons with reduced physical, sensory or mental capabilities or lack of experience or knowledge"

That same warning could be put on the packing cases of many, many musical instuments! And Mr Daniels finest sour mash?

I'm with Guest999. Straight razor, nowhere near as difficult to use as people think, lasts a lifetime, and your wife/girlfriend won't borrow it behind your back leaving you with unexplained razor burn!

Subject: RE: BS: Elf 'n' safety gorn mad again
From: Charmion
Date: 05 Mar 13 - 06:45 AM

If said female relative has hospital experience, or a barber's licence, she may be more skilled with your cut-throat than you are.

Besides, you should be stropping it before every use.

Subject: RE: BS: Elf 'n' safety gorn mad again
From: fat B****rd
Date: 05 Mar 13 - 03:39 PM

Roger ! You have electricity! Do you plug the washboard in?

Subject: RE: BS: Elf 'n' safety gorn mad again
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Mar 13 - 05:09 PM

My beard can be rinsed under the tap - even when I'm wearing it

Subject: RE: BS: Elf 'n' safety gorn mad again
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 05 Mar 13 - 10:03 PM

As SBS said, it's the litigation industry and people exploiting (mostly sensible enough) health and safety rules that are the problem.

Witness this horrifying case
California nurse refuses to give CPR to dying woman

"A nurse's refusal to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation on a dying 87-year-old woman in California despite desperate pleas on the telephone from an emuergency dispatcher has prompted outrage and spawned a criminal investigation."

...the executive director of Glenwood Gardens, Jeffrey Toomer, defended the nurse in a written statement, saying she had followed the facility's policy.

"In the event of a health emergency at this independent living community, our practice is to immediately call emergency medical personnel for assistance and to wait with the individual needing attention until such personnel arrives," Toomer said. "That is the protocol we followed."

Thank God the two people who gave me CPR when my heart gave out just before Christmas in 2010 were not under the control of people like Jeffrey Toomer's mob.

Subject: RE: BS: Elf 'n' safety gorn mad again
From: GUEST,Musket sans cookie
Date: 06 Mar 13 - 02:45 AM

A few years ago, I must have been bored to do this, I started reading the leaflets that came with a Microsoft mouse. It advised you to leave your desk at regular intervals to carry out exercise because it was good for your health and wellbeing.

This wasn't some leaflet included, no. It was buried in the instructions on how to use the ruddy mouse...

McGrath makes a good point. Policies can be dangerous when the legal department have more influence than professional clinicians. ..

Subject: RE: BS: Elf 'n' safety gorn mad again
From: Mr Happy
Date: 06 Mar 13 - 07:00 AM

Some years back we bought a new washing machine.

I tried to open the door to get at the instruction book inside.

The door wouldn't budge so I rang the dealers.

They said to plug the machine into power socket.

I did this & was able to open the door.

On the first page of the instructions it said 'Do not cconnect to power before reading instructions!' - DUH!!

Subject: RE: BS: Elf 'n' safety gorn mad again
From: GUEST,Lavengro
Date: 06 Mar 13 - 07:07 AM

@MGofH

I didn't even play the film on the link, just read it and I found it totally harrowing.

Speaking as a nurse I have seen so many people come into the profession in the last couple of decades with absolutely no apparent interest in people, or any "vocational" element in their decision process for entering nursing in the first place. I personally feel that this has had a massive impact on patient care and ulimately ends up in events such as the one you have brought to our attention. How do you watch someone die for the sake of a few minutes chest compressions?

Total lack of empathy or care.

Subject: RE: BS: Elf 'n' safety gorn mad again
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 06 Mar 13 - 07:20 AM

Had salmon for dinner last night. On the packet was an allergy warning: May contain fish.

I kid you not.

Subject: RE: BS: Elf 'n' safety gorn mad again
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 06 Mar 13 - 09:57 AM

I'd suspect the basic problem there may have been not so much that the nurse had the wrong attitude - though pretty evidently she had - but that she was following official orders, probably because she was scared she'd lose her job if she broke the rules.

As in so many cases, the real criminals are the people up the top, who make the rules or approve them. And when the shit hits the fan, they walk away unscathed. This stupid nurse might very likely end up carrying the can. Her management won't.