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Post by auntieannie on Dec 5, 2009 14:31:02 GMT
Or how "health & safety" is endangering children's lives in British schools.
I have been told by a friend of mine, who helps at her local school with the school's garden, that they are not allowed sharp knives in the kitchen as it is a kitchen children use to cook a little (whatever little cooking activity H&S allows).
I felt like swearing profusely. This is total madness! a blunt knife is much more dangerous than a sharp knife!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2009 15:15:20 GMT
Annie,I agree with your sentiment. It is the same mentality that has banned the centuries old games of "tag" and "dodge ball'" and many other playground games. Might be more appropriate for the rant section as I could rail on about this.  |
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Post by auntieannie on Dec 5, 2009 15:49:41 GMT
on the "health & safety gone crazy" in relation with food theme, is the British government's stance on wild mushrooms.
Don't eat them in any kind of doubt.
Education/recognising specialists to call for help identifying mushrooms would be so much more productive!
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Post by imec on Dec 5, 2009 17:05:12 GMT
I'm sick and tired of this nanny state mentality.
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Post by auntieannie on Dec 5, 2009 17:12:18 GMT
Same here, Imec. How to get rid of the british government and restore common sense?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2009 18:20:34 GMT
And not just the British government! The first thing to make people more sensible would be to prevent lawsuits for $230,000,000 in damages for stupid things. If you put a $10,000 compensation cap on someone suing after severing their own finger, even if they are a child, people would calm down.
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Post by lagatta on Dec 7, 2009 2:07:45 GMT
It is very counterproductive - it leads to children not taking enough healthy exercise, for one thing, and developing severe health problems as a result. Or else they find the official playgrounds too bloody dull and go playing along the railway tracks, around bulding sites or demolished buildings etc.
Children - both boys and girls - really should learn how to cook, and plan a basic budget if given a sum. And know how to repair simple things.
Cooking involves knowing how to use sharp things safetly (so does "DIY", or "shop", and even sewing, especially on a sewing maching). I do confess I just sliced off the tip of a fingernail just now, using a large-cut Microplane (making red cabbage with red onions, apples, citrus, caraway, onion and a dash of wine) but at least it was a fingernail, not a finger. And no, the cut fingernail is NOT in the red cabbage... I must have been tired; haven't done anything like that in a long time.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2009 17:00:11 GMT
Actually, about the only safety innovation for children which I really wish had existed when I was a child are those spongy surfaces they put in playgrounds under some of the most accident-prone equipment. I probably would have had fewer torn trousers and the family would have had a smaller mercurochrome budget if I had fallen on such things.
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Post by traveler63 on Dec 20, 2009 20:03:15 GMT
There are not enough people to enforce laws to protect people from being stupid. I agree with you K2, at some point there has to be some caps. For instance here in Arizona, there is a law that says if you drive around the barriers into one of the washes and get caught in in a flash flood, have to have a swift water rescue, you are a stupid driver and the stupid driver law says you pay for all of the costs to get rescued. Seems fair to me to pay for the fire department and the helicopters to pluck you out of the water.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2009 19:53:47 GMT
They have started charging some people in France for mountain rescues.
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Post by Kimby on Dec 21, 2009 20:10:44 GMT
They have started charging some people in France for mountain rescues. Search and Rescue teams in the US do not want there to be a charge for rescues, because it would discourage people from calling in an emergency until it was too late, resulting in greater likelihood of tragedy and more risk to those mounting the rescue. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2009 20:30:28 GMT
Well, they have only started charging the stupidest people, along the lines of those who call to say "My flip flops got caught in a crevasse on this glacier, and I'm beginning to feel chilly in my tank top."
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Post by hwinpp on Dec 23, 2009 5:02:44 GMT
Blunt knives are an abomination.
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Post by fumobici on Dec 25, 2009 2:28:12 GMT
They are, but I think the notion that they are more dangerous than sharp knives stands on shaky empirical ground. It's fun to say though, especially with a knowing look, then a quick rolleyes.
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