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

[Don.H]

Remember you gotta consinder the source!!!!!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <bill at antique-engines.com>
To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 7:42 AM
Subject: Re: [SEL] health and safety......gone mad.


> 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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