Health and Safety gone mad!

loonytoons

This is genuine! Last Thursday, the health and safety reps walked around our factory, where thereare over 300 chairs and removed over 200 of them as they were considered a health and safety risk, as someone had succumbed to an accident on this type of chair and the chief risk assessor decided to remove all of the said type of chair. Can anyone guess what all the chairs that were removed had in common that made them considered 'unstable'?

spornybol

i reckon they where one legged chairs

DOHHHHHHH

^^^^^ more commonly known as stools?

scouse_red

wheels

loonytoons

All wrong, the answer is, and you seriously couldnt make it up :- 'All chairs must have 5 points of contact with the floor' in other words any chair with 4 legs is not acceptable lol. Now all we have are chairs with a single pillar and 5 legs at the bottom! I always new that 4 legged chairs were an unstable design lol.

spornybol

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In Response to Re: Health and Safety gone mad! : Sporny,  Hubby has got one of those it's a walking stick that opens to form a seat and you stick the point in the ground and sit down. It's only dangerous if you don't open the seat.?
Posted by logdon

 or sit on the wrong end,

spornybol

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All wrong, the answer is, and you seriously couldnt make it up :- 'All chairs must have 5 points of contact with the floor' in other words any chair with 4 legs is not acceptable lol. Now all we have are chairs with a single pillar and 5 legs at the bottom! I always new that 4 legged chairs were an unstable design lol.
Posted by loonytoons

surely if your sitting on a 4 legged chair and you feet are on floor the 6 legs are at point off contact?

HITMAN_RV

"Can anyone guess what all the chairs that were removed had in common that made them considered 'unstable'?"

Did they have mental health issues?
 
If so, they should not have been removed, that is work place discrimination against 'unstable' chairs !!
They should have arranged a meeting, where problem solving could be voluntarily discussed. This should take place during normal work hours, after which, a weeks leave, should be offered to all attendee's, to help with any subsequent stress issues!

Where were all these chairs from ?. In these cases many will be from the far east [and some from scandanavia, the cheap pine ones], so full translation facities will have to be laid on also, in case any of these bone idle chairs have failed to bother to learn the native language[s], like albanian, somalian, bangladeshi !

God forbid any of these chairs are made from solid English Oak, if so they will have to wait at the back of the meeting, until the more important chairs have been fully satisfied, and o.. they will have to have to make the Tea & serve the ' cocoa substance' topped digestives & 'vanilla essence sandwiched' creams

On another note, i once had an enginneering customer, who sent back a batch of grinding discs, because...................... they were too depressed, Serious, No Joke !

loonytoons

In Response to Re: Health and Safety gone mad!:

In Response to Re: Health and Safety gone mad! : surely if your sitting on a 4 legged chair and you feet are on floor the 6 legs are at point off contact?
Posted by spornybol

i agree lol, apparently someone was leaning back on the 4 legged chair (leaving only 2 points of contact) and fell over, they now reckon that the pentagonal shape layout of the five legged chairs will prevent people from doing this!!!

unknown_username

you want to work on site m8,sumtimes you look like an astronaught and at the same time you have to produce quality,you have to pay for this PPE while at the same time the prices have hit rock bottom,i could go on and on and on....oh well if i dont do it some other soft lad wlll...now im getting depressed