OH&S gone mad

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I have glanced through many of the posts but not read too many in detail as it was hurting my brain. I was once trained as an OHS auditor but the course was rubbish (government endorsed and paid for the training provider .

Off topic and just my Family experience.

My Great Grand Farther died at 106, he smoked, drank, ate food that we now believe to be cancer causing, lived in and did self renovations on a house that was eventually considered as not healthy for humans, not that there was anything structurally wrong with it or uninhabitable, it was just mostly made of asbestos. His daughters, twins, one being my Grandmother turns 100 in the next 6 weeks, they grew up in said unlivable house, they also smoked, drank and ate the bad food served up to them as kids. My mother and father also smoked, still drink, eat all the bad foods, they are now in there late 70's and still travel and live well. My father spent most if not all of his life as a diesel engineer working in the bowels of oil tankers. So now to me, I have not fallen to much from the family tree. Drink, eat the foods that taste good but some tree hugging pinko will say it is cancer causing and I am unlikely to change my ways.

Yes, OHS has a place and as a former company director/owner I am fully aware of director obligations however I do thing society today has gone a little over board on the side of caution.
 
I get tired of hearing that my ............. drank, smoked, ate fatty foods and had far too much salt and lived forever. We are all different, just be grateful that your genetic makeup is such that you may live a long life regardless of how you have treated your body over the years. Some people aren't as fortunate.

Granted some rules can seem to be ridiculous, but If they can save lives, then good, we live in a wealthy society and can afford it.

Walked past several workshops yesterday, workers welding without using eye protection, others using angle grinders to cut metal, and remove rust, again no eye protection, building site workers with no protection, needless to say not in Australia, I've seen kids in India using a piece of broken brown glass whilst welding to shield their eyes, like that would work.
 
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I'm actually driving right through Wittenoom tomorrow morning in fact, and I'm not in the least bit concerned about doing it.

I wouldn't be either, but even being on the 'OH&S gone mad' side, I wouldn't go seeking it out, even in its raw mineral form ... just like I wouldn't be breathing deep around mercury deposits.
 
That's a link to a drop box. Not too keen on clicking that. I'm sure it's ok , but not something I do unless I know something about it first.
 
That's a link to a drop box. Not too keen on clicking that. I'm sure it's ok , but not something I do unless I know something about it first.
It's OK, I've left a tinfoil hat in there just for you.
 
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It's OK, I've left a tinfoil hat in there just for you.

Mate you apparently haven't realised, but I'm on your side on this issue. Go ahead with your silly tin foil hat thing if it helps you. You'll find engagement on this forum a lot easier if you don't simply take the nark with everyone. :rolleyes:

If you find fault with the actual comment - to be careful with unknown links (stray Dropboxes) - by all means let us know.
 
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