[SEL] health and safety......gone mad.

[Jeff Allen]

ROTFLMFAO!

 From the land of fenced off engine compounds I get this. We, as in the 
USA, are somehow responsible for this? Don't bogart that joint my 
friend, pass it over to me.

snipped like a heifer

Jeff


Jeff Allen
Arvada, Colorado, USA
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peter ogborne wrote:

> Today I went to my local Smorgon Steel supply to buy a piece of 100 x6 
> MS flat bar ,an off cut would be OK.To enter the premises it is now 
> required to wear a safety helmet, a fluro coloured vest and a pair of 
> questionable safety glasses.
>
> The points I made to the management were....
> The safety hat , only three were available none of which were the 
> correct size and sat on my head like a bloody pimple on a pumpkin.
> The glasses were old and not sterilised.
> The fluro vest ....apart from making me look like a bloody idiot I 
> could not see as to what purpose it served.
>
> I was told by management in no uncertain manner that unless I clad 
> myself in this ridiculous attire I could not enter.
> Consequently as I wanted the material I obliged.
> To cap it all off ......the item cost me $2 but the bloody paperwork 
> cost the firm $15 ,computer entry's etc etc.
> I must say that the staff member after an interminable time on the 
> keyboard seemed to grab this figure from out of thin air ,I am sure it 
> bore no relevance to what was on the screen
> I lay the blame for this madness solely at the foot of the United 
> States of America.
> Peter Ogborne
> Little Grove ,Albany
> West Australia
> ''Heart of the Rainbow Coast ''
> jopeter at omninet.net.au
>
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