[modeleng] Re: Shut yards, HSE and spoiling of fun

Last week I went to a local engineering works where I buy steel now that the 
boat builder who supplied me has retired to Queensland. They have allowed me 
into the shop to select what I require, but now they issue me with a 
florescent jacket & I must sign in. I asked where my hard hat was .
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harry Wade" <hww@xxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 2:39 PM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: Shut yards, HSE and spoiling of fun


> At 02:23 PM 6/21/07 +0100, you wrote:
>>Would anyone else care to comment, or disagree with my thoughts? - Rich
>
> Rich,
>     We have very much the same situation over here.  Many places where one
> was formerly allowed to wander are now off-limits and the universal reason
> is now "Insurance regulations" and there is every reason to believe that 
> is
> truly the case, for much the same reasons you state.  The primary focus of
> OSHA (our H&S) is life safety, not litigation prevention although that is
> certainly a secondary effect.  But there are also a number of suituations
> where shops simply don't want to have the nasty public wandering about so
> "Insurance regulations" is given as a convenient excuse, rather than just
> out and saying we don't want to you wandering around back there or
> attempting to serve yourself.
>     I have two or three local metals suppliers, all of which once allowed
> me (ie, the public) to go into the shed and sort through their "drops" 
> bins
> for shorts & odd bits of metal, and as often as not I found and came away
> with much more than I'd initially intended to buy.  But no more, 
> "insurance
> regulations" forbid it, so IF I go back at all it will be to buy only what
> I need and no more.  I think they simply don't want me wandering around 
> the
> shed.
>
>
> Regards,
> Harry Wade
> Nashville  Tennessee
>
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