Hazards of the day

I came across this hand-written board on the wall of a construction site on a platform in Glasgow Central Station. The heading is 'Hazards of the day' and although the hazards themselves will be awfully important to those involved, I took the pic for the headline more than the story. You would think that hazards would be quite consistent in this scenario, but I guess as work progresses the hazards multiply or diminish, or simply, change.

In our daily toil I guess this can be the case. I've always liked the phrase that some people use when describing their job 'no two days are ever the same', as if that were especially so in any job. And then there's the other phrase used about incidents and accidents that after all, you could get knocked down by a bus tomorrow. Well, yes, and if I actually recounted 'hazards of the day' in my day and daily, I guess we could go to extremes and think about 101 negatives and 101 more if we really tried.

There is of course an inherent negativity, approaching dreariness, in 'hazards of the day', a neat four-word summary of an invidious health and safety culture all too prevalent. We have banned bake sales in my place of work as we cannot account for the source, what nut allergies and the like. If I started to worry over the hazards in our student trip to New York, no-one would ever leave the house. Actually when you think of the number and variety of domestic accidents that could take place, it's a wonder we would ever leave our beds. Somehow we manage though, even though a sign like this rather than a warning becomes a forecast. In the words of a previous blip of mine, we figure it out and survive.