'Which do you reckon a risk-averse council would be most worried about?
- Hammering nails through your body
- Hanging from chains via piercings in your nipples
- Charging yourself with 300,000 volts and firing lightning from your fingertips
- Dragging a hoover around with your cock
- Swallowing a revolving electric drill
- Eating smashed lightbulbs
- Staple-gunning playing cards to your face
- Rectally inserting a fluorescent tube
- Smoking a cigarette
Aw shucks, you guessed it.
The Circus of Horrors, which began life at Glastonbury 15 years ago, said today it was locked in a battle with officials at the Corn Exhange, in King's Lynn, after being asked to provide a risk assessment for performers smoking on stage in order that an exemption could be sought from the council's health and safety and licensing departments.Good grief.'
[The show's ringmaster, John Haze said,] "To be honest, it seemed a bit stupid that we had to provide a risk assessment, given all the stuff we do. We had to do an assessment on how you light it and how you put it out. It just seems mad that they are going on about a tiny thing like smoking."
Big Politics Night! 25-04-2024
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2 comments:
Health and Safety exists to set limits on the behaviour of companies and individuals often in a postion of authority or power over another individual. Have you seen the statistics of how many people in this country still die in workplace accidents. Your example may seem amusing and I'm sure you don't mean to trivialise this issue but at lease H and S is attempting to make workplaces safe for employees.
Some H&S is worthwhile but a lot is there to create or keep jobs and is not in any way useful.
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