Hyper Health and Safety – Lawyers' Fault
Blame culture, it’s everywhere. If you’re not getting the blame at work you can bet your getting the blame as a lawyer for something. The ambulance-chasing variety seem to have managed to get the whole profession tarred with the compensation culture brush and blamed for nannying health and safety rules. Perhaps then by the same logic lawyers should be praised for the advent of the following snippets of entertainment provided by local councils cowering in fear of …
Blame culture, it’s everywhere. If you’re not getting the blame at work you can bet your getting the blame as a lawyer for something. The ambulance-chasing variety seem to have managed to get the whole profession tarred with the compensation culture brush and blamed for nannying health and safety rules. Perhaps then by the same logic lawyers should be praised for the advent of the following snippets of entertainment provided by local councils cowering in fear of a nasty law suits. From the Manifesto Club’s photobook of unnecessary, absurd and patronising safety warnings.
There is no law of common sense but claiming after climbing into bottle banks and sitting on wet benches would surely provoke a defence of contributory negligence.
As for falling into open graves…
Via the Daily Mail
July 9, 2009
haha
July 9, 2009
Hardly lawyers’ fault; h&s laws are created by idiots to protect other idiots from themselves. Lawyers just facilitate the process. Not all personal injury specialists are ambulance chasers.
July 14, 2009
I agree; the “compensation culture” in the UK is a myth – the Courts are well able to throw unmeritorious claims out early-on. But that doesn`t stop idiots trying to justify their intermittently-useful jobs by drafting such notices.