I don't take offence on the net
I too get a touch irritated by a H&S person with no actual experience of the job telling me stuff about the job I've done with no injury for the last 30 yrs due to my own developed common sense - the thing is though, that H&S person has probably seen all the reports, all the documentation of all the hundreds of others who haven't managed it from their H&S organisation memberships - and in not managing it, I guess some of them have also taken out some of the ones who were up to then . . .
So rather than lose workers, and of course cost money, they offer the procedure/tools/check lists that those with experience around the world have developed and publicised. And if you are sensible, you never stop listening - you might just learn something useful.
You can't argue with the figures - we used to have very high number of injuries, some fatal, in our plants around the world - affecting our employees, our customers, and our suppliers, and their families (literally sometimes - a truck driver delivering to a plant in Africa (I think) brought his wife and child with him - they didn't leave with him! - that lead to every single gate in our many plants around the world being inspected and modified if required).
Those figures have dropped considerably, heading very close to the target of zero. World wide!
It just doesn't take much to have a momentary loss of concentration - maybe after 10 hrs and 500 miles of driving - to slip slightly, catch a toe in a loose sheet/strap . . .
They really aren't trying to make your job harder, just trying to make sure you go home in the same number of component parts as you arrived in - and if our H&S lady could hear me say that, she'd probably trip over her own hand rail that she had installed to stop people leaping to their death off the pavement kerb outside our main building . . .
