Health and safety at schools

[BrilloPad]

These rules are not created by H&S professionals, but by school authorities who then pass them down.



Good one! Oh just in case you were being serious, it's because most people have no common sense, as your naive answer demonstrates admirably.

cuk posters

[snaw]

What if one of your little mates had split his head open as a kid and died though? You'd want stuff like this in place for your own children now.

I get why they're so anal about protecting kids...and I remember that it wasn't like that when we were kids and "didn't do us any harm" etc.

Getting a happy balance is a tough one.

There's a balance, but imo kids need that freedom.

[Platypus]

Was watching BBC News this morning and it was denied that any of those listed are official policy and its down to people misinterpretting the rules. Which I dont believe.

These rules are not created by H&S professionals, but by school authorities who then pass them down.

Why do we need rules in the first place? What happened to common sense?

Good one! Oh just in case you were being serious, it's because most people have no common sense, as your naive answer demonstrates admirably.

[Platypus]

It's all a bit mental.

No, it's the parents who are mental and will sue the school if their little pwince / pwrincess comes home with tales of injury or things being "not fair".

As a result schools have to be extra-stupid-paranoid about H&S.

[Churchill]

I know it wouldn't tread water in a public debate, but to me that's all being part of being a kid - you do dumb tulip and sometimes you get your head busted open ... and I wouldn't have changed it for the world.

What the Ned said!

[BrilloPad]

Was reading this article and gotta say I'm impressed.

I do think we could take it a step further though, why don't we come up with some kind of isolation cube thing, lock our kids in them in some sort of oxygen jelly compound and feed them sterilised nutrients. They'll be really safe then.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8107858.stm

Some highlights



FFS, I lost count of the number of times as a kid I split my head open, scrapped the skin off knees and elbows or burnt myself. HTF do we end up at the point where health and safety dictate all this bollocks to us?

H&S, PC, fun hating spoilsports.

It's all a bit mental.

Was watching BBC News this morning and it was denied that any of those listed are official policy and its down to people misinterpretting the rules. Which I dont believe. Why do we need rules in the first place? What happened to common sense?

[SallyAnne]

I know it wouldn't tread water in a public debate, but to me that's all being part of being a kid - you do dumb tulip and sometimes you get your head busted open ... and I wouldn't have changed it for the world.

What if one of your little mates had split his head open as a kid and died though? You'd want stuff like this in place for your own children now.

I get why they're so anal about protecting kids...and I remember that it wasn't like that when we were kids and "didn't do us any harm" etc.

Getting a happy balance is a tough one.

[thelace]

I know it wouldn't tread water in a public debate, but to me that's all being part of being a kid - you do dumb tulip and sometimes you get your head busted open ... and I wouldn't have changed it for the world.

Yup, it's called learning....

[thelace]

Another nail in the coffin for my profession...

The people that come up with these STUPID rules should be sacked!

[snaw]

Not really a good counter argument

I get your point though!

I know it wouldn't tread water in a public debate, but to me that's all being part of being a kid - you do dumb tulip and sometimes you get your head busted open ... and I wouldn't have changed it for the world.

[SallyAnne]

FFS, I lost count of the number of times as a kid I split my head open

Not really a good counter argument

I get your point though!

[snaw]

Was reading this article and gotta say I'm impressed.

I do think we could take it a step further though, why don't we come up with some kind of isolation cube thing, lock our kids in them in some sort of oxygen jelly compound and feed them sterilised nutrients. They'll be really safe then.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8107858.stm

Some highlights

Wearing goggles to put up posters
Five-page briefing on the dangers of glue sticks
Ban on running in the playground
Wet grass stopping PE lessons
Ban on playing with conkers
One person at a time in staff kitchen
Ban on sweets because of choking risk
Buoyancy aids for capable year 11 swimmers on a school trip to France

FFS, I lost count of the number of times as a kid I split my head open, scrapped the skin off knees and elbows or burnt myself. HTF do we end up at the point where health and safety dictate all this bollocks to us?

H&S, PC, fun hating spoilsports.

It's all a bit mental.