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

[bill at antique-engines.com]

Don't blame us! We are NOT the country that has banned wooden matches and
make you put fences around your engines!
You can't lay that one us - look to your own pollies there.

Hell, we don't even OWN steel facilities any more, foreigners do.

Bill

> 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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