Don't Fall!

I love things like this. As the company's Health and Safety officer (it's a laugh a minute that task, I can tell you) I get these catalogues handed to me with all the H&S kit, and the posters are generally hilarious.

I mean, 'Don't Fall'. If only someone had thought of that sooner. It's genius, the way to stop people falling at work and injuring themselves is simply to tell them 'Don't Fall'. Forget harnesses, nets and so on. The thing is, making errors, little miscalculations, it's all part of the human condition. You simply cannot eradicate mistakes. I could tell each and every person reading this that for the rest of their lives they are never allowed to trip over something again.

Now that's just not going to happen is it?

Bear in mind I don't subscribe to the notion of 'H&S Gone Mad', because it hasn't. It's misapplication and unsubstantiated fear of litigation that leads to the proliferation of this stuff. The actual H&S laws and guidelines make sense. Seriously, they do. It's just in a lot of cases the people implementing them are muppets of the highest order.

Anyway, got the site online last night, and really quite pleased with how it looks. The last couple of issues have both crested 10,000 readers, which I think is the first time it's managed doing that two issues in a row. There's a momentum building that I need to keep going. And I'm still hopeful the interview with Cath Wiggins will boost that profile.

And now I cn relax again a little bit. A night off tonight anyway for sure. Then tomorrow on a train heading to Newcastle for the weekend with a friend for the football (and protest at the ground renaming) and a few pints. Home Sunday and pressed into gardening action (dependant on the weather of course) for the few hours daylight remaining (I almost said 'sunlight' then realised the folly of such a statement).

Now. It's 10.40am and I'm already hungry... The charity sweet thing in the kitchen might be about to be raided.