Comments on: Safety first! http://www.paperhurts.com/2008/12/safety-first/ a comedy of errors, or how iranamok in the college of perpetual indulgence Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:28:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Shawn http://www.paperhurts.com/2008/12/safety-first/comment-page-1/#comment-214 Shawn Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:18:33 +0000 http://www.paperhurts.com/?p=274#comment-214 Those questions look very familliar. Either we work at the same place, or those questions are off some standard EH&S form. Those questions look very familliar. Either we work at the same place, or those questions are off some standard EH&S form.

]]> By: Johan Lont http://www.paperhurts.com/2008/12/safety-first/comment-page-1/#comment-209 Johan Lont Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:33:25 +0000 http://www.paperhurts.com/?p=274#comment-209 Typical example of what happens when policies are enforced from somewhere high up. Some high manager probably gets a yearly visit from some kind of official inspector from 'headquarters' or from some government agency asking : "What are you doing to maintain safety standards?" Reply: "Well, we test every single employee on their knowledge of Environmental Health & Safety." Inspector: "Did you not forget the test this year." Reply: "No, they have all just been tested." Inspector: "Okay, then you are safe." Of course the higher management wants to avoid at all cost that any employee can't enter the building, because then they can't finish work on their projects. <abbr><em>Johan Lont´s last blog post..<a href="http://twitter.com/jclont/statuses/1075075882" rel="nofollow">jclont: @elana_s It wasn't me!</a></abbr></em> Typical example of what happens when policies are enforced from somewhere high up. Some high manager probably gets a yearly visit from some kind of official inspector from ‘headquarters’ or from some government agency asking : “What are you doing to maintain safety standards?” Reply: “Well, we test every single employee on their knowledge of Environmental Health & Safety.” Inspector: “Did you not forget the test this year.” Reply: “No, they have all just been tested.” Inspector: “Okay, then you are safe.”

Of course the higher management wants to avoid at all cost that any employee can’t enter the building, because then they can’t finish work on their projects.

Johan Lont´s last blog post..jclont: @elana_s It wasn’t me!

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