Health & Safety
Wise words from my employer's brand new, mandatory, online health and safety training package:
I swear on the Dude's life that the above has been lifted directly from the screen, and has not been subjected to my habitual satirical tinkering. That being the case, I am quietly confident that it needs no further comment from me.
“Furthermore, our relationships with colleagues will be enhanced if we take care and avoid harming them.
Today, behaviour that causes unnecessary pain or injury to others is regarded as socially and morally unacceptable.”
I swear on the Dude's life that the above has been lifted directly from the screen, and has not been subjected to my habitual satirical tinkering. That being the case, I am quietly confident that it needs no further comment from me.
The Editor
(Still recuperating from weeks of building work, but hoping to be back in the blogosphere on a regular basis 'ere long)
posted by
Lady Bracknell | Monday, August 18, 2008
7 Comments:
You're supposed to avoid harming your colleagues? Okay, I mean I understand it may lead to less workplace injuries, less prosecutions and less jail time, but really, where's the fun in that?
Durn! Best remove that mantrap from the boss's office chair then, and fill in the poison-spike-filled pit I just dug in reception.
I know: it does rather take the joy out of going into the office...
What we're all intrigued to find out, though, is exactly when "behaviour that causes unnecessary pain or injury to others" was regarded as being socially and morally acceptable.
dear Lady,
you've obviously never worked for an organisation with an 'audit' section. I've always understood their raison d'etre to be "behaviour that causes unnecessary pain or injury to others".
They're like that character from Little Britain: "Audit says no".
You have no idea how tempted I am at this juncture to claim that I work in an audit section...
So.... how are we defining necessary pain and/or injury?
I merely ask.
Damn.
How could I have missed that?
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