Health and safety in education
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Health and safety? What a load of Horlicks! It is now fact, or so it would seem, that any human being between the age of 3 and 18 is in dire peril and sudden death if it chooses to attend such a thing as "an educational establishment." If chances are in their favour and they miraculously survive they then become victim to the plethora of raving perverts and paedophiles that have pervaded the vetting system. |
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We want our kids safe and healthy Having been in education 24 years, guess how many kids I've seen had an accident? Not a single one. Of course we all want kids to be safe and healthy but our educational establishments are now so over managed with fearful middle managers (kept awake at night by worries that they will be sued by some angry parents for letting little Joe or Josie walk into a door) that education is suffering due to selfishly imposed policies and ludicrous procedures that are implemented simply to cover their backs. |
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A good example was when a famous guitarist was doing a workshop in a school that specialises in Performing Arts. Unfortunately all the young musicians in a neighbouring school who were invited couldn't go because there wasn't time to fill in the health and safety paperwork! All the kids (aged 16) had to do was walk 600 yards! As a direct result of this stupidity and bureaucracy, these kids were denied a perfectly good educational experience! Now is it me, or has this whole Health and Safety thing just gone barmy? By: J. Swift |
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Comments from visitors
oh and just so you know, I was aged 5 in 1996- so this wasn't that long ago!
Thaimalayapore!! - 5-Jul-10 10:51
Talk about break his heart...he wasn't allowed to use the loo roll tubes, kitchen roll tubes, or tissue box, because of the germs they may carry. Egg boxes were not allowed either.
Ashlee's mom - 31-Aug-09 20:35
It is wonderful to hear so much common sense and criticism of the nanny state from someone your age. Perhaps there is hope after all!!
Just don't change, please!
grumpyoldwoman - 17-Mar-09 12:21
To be perfectly honest, in my eyes, political correctness and health & safety laws have sent this country to the dogs.
I am no longer allowed to climb trees without appropriate safety harnesses, which defeats the object of climbing the tree. I fell out at 5 metres once, I now check to see wheher or not the tree is rotten first. Common sense.
I am not physically allowed to have fun without having to take out risk assesments. I cannot run up a hill in case I slip, which then means I ought to go home and change my shoes.
I cannot carry a knife in order to whittle wood, as I used to when I was about 10, in case it slips and I cut my finger open, I haven't cut myself since.
I cannot fire an Air Rifle towards anything other than authorised boards of whatever they are, in case the pellets ricochet or cause damage.
I cannot play around with a torch playing "tag" near a road at 10 p.m. because it's too dark to play. I cannot run around playing "Hide & Seek in the dark" at 10 p.m. either, because we might not be able to see a wet patch on the ground. Playing "Hide & Seek in the dark" at 11 a.m. kind of defeats the object of running around throwing glow-sticks at each other.
I cannot ride a push bike without an 'audible warning system', I mean, honestly, how man cars are going to hear a 'ting' as oppose to me screaming at the top of my voice?
Stupid, isn't it.
Kids need a little danger and risk in their lives Yes some will end up badly hurt but when they survive like we did they learn as do the people there when it happened you can't teach children by just saying Don't do that Think of your reaction to the sign Wet Paint I still have to see if it is don't you ???
Then having got paint on my hands I have to solve the problem of how to get it off I don't scream and shout for a wet nurse
I am sure that this is a lot of the frustrated anger and silly annoyances that youngsters get up to today is caused by they have no excitement or danger or risk in their lives only the imaginary ones they play on their X box or whatever once again they are being trained in theory where the war games can't hurt the car crash doesn’t break your leg the war game doesn’t Kill
How can they learn about the fact's like this ??????
There is No substitute for experience and never will be life can hurt and does!
that’s the way we learned and have survived through history
All cables need to be exposed to have Poxy little stickers on them to say that they are not about to blow you into Orbit.
This also needs to be done every year in case your Ipod Lead turns evil and decides to assasinate.
H&S GONE BONKERS





