It's 'ealth n safety gawn mad

Please see email below which my friend received from her company:

"Subject: 10th Floor Kettle
Importance: High

 

Dear All

 

We are no longer allowed to have a kettle in the kitchen due to health & safety.

 

Please can you pass this around your teams

 

Many thanks"

 

My friend and her colleagues are, understandably, letting off considerable steam about this.

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Zoeandbruno
I'm assuming this means that they're not allowed hot water or hot drinks at all. Do the not realise the health and safety issues surrounding an office full of people who have not had a morning cup of tea?
Pete
That could really cause things to boil over in your office.
Wapping Psycho
Hilarious! What next - ban water? In case someone drowns in the kitchen?!
plubby

Isn't it odd how 'health and safety' has become a phrase meaning the exact opposite.

It is also a complete nonsense - our hosts here are very, very strict on H & S regs and we have two kettles in the kitchen. Innit.

cha0tic
WTF? First thing to do would be to ask why and on what grounds. There are all sorts of ways to re-focus Health and Safety bollocks, by using the system.* Kind of like administrative judo. It sounds like someone has not understood the purpose of HSE regulation and has gone a bit mad.

Ask your friend to send the E-mail inquiring why and on what specific grounds and I'll see if I can help her get the kettle back. I'm not qualified in many things, but I do have my NEBOSH certificate and run our companies Health and Safety Policy, so I've got half an idea.

*Unless there is very specific legislation covering that area of work.
Red Shoes

"10th Floor Kettle."

Nurse, my sides. Wouldn't it just be safer if it was removed with extreme care and caution to the 9th?

Jando

Z&B - A valid point. Incidentally, I waited all day for a post ... and nothing. As Foxy said, I can only assume you're pregnant.

Pete - It's puns like that that really scald me.

WP - And ban teaspoons in case one accidentally goes in someone's ear.

Pog - It sounds like you're a team of vampires and your hosts provide kettles so you drink tea instead of their blood.

cha0tic - I shall ask her - but I think she's just given up and brings her coffee in from Starbucks or wherever.

Red - Ha! I think the poor kettle jumped out the 10th floor window, depressed by the neglect it has suffered.

plubby
This may well be they're thinking - although they seem to think we're more sci-fi than horror. I've heard our little office referred to as 'the Tardis' more than once. They claim they see lots of people coming here, but hardly anyone comes out. Come to think of it, that might just as well apply to vampires (cross ref 'Dusk 'til Dawn').

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