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Health and Safety Gone Mad?
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Health and Safety Gone Mad?
Conkers have been removed from a large horse chestnut tree in part of Nottingham over safety fears.
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Hairyloon- Posts : 649
Join date : 2009-12-09
Location : UK
Re: Health and Safety Gone Mad?
Not sure its Health and safety, more a council worried about being sued by a litigious and cash greedy public
Re: Health and Safety Gone Mad?
The link ( mentioned in all sorts of places at this time of year) to playing conkers is a load of round spherical objects on male animals.. I risk assess this sort of stuff all the time ( for working with children!!) and no it is not required...
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Compostwoman- Posts : 5688
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Re: Health and Safety Gone Mad?
They would not win.Badger wrote:Not sure its Health and safety, more a council worried about being sued by a litigious and cash greedy public
Hairyloon- Posts : 649
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Re: Health and Safety Gone Mad?
Yeah but they tend to roll over an pay up because they are too scared to fight it..and so it goes on.
Compostwoman- Posts : 5688
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Re: Health and Safety Gone Mad?
I believe that a park in Worcester put barriers around pear trees a few years ago because the council were worried about pears landing on people's heads. (Just think - if people had been so safety conscious centuries ago, gravity might never have been discovered!!)
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Re: Health and Safety Gone Mad?
Unfortunately this is likely true, which is utter madness.Compostwoman wrote:Yeah but they tend to roll over an pay up because they are too scared to fight it..and so it goes on.
They need a better class of legal bod... and perhaps a bit of backbone.
Hairyloon- Posts : 649
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Re: Health and Safety Gone Mad?
In Suffolk, specifically Bury... we have signs to say.. beware conkers may fall from this tree.. um... well..... it is a conker tree...... be kinda weird if pineapples starting dropping out of it...
Re: Health and Safety Gone Mad?
In one place, they picked all the conkers, but heaped them up for the kids to collect. Not ideal but better than throwing them away.
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