Is this a PBO wind up?

[TripleX]

I sent PBO an article on emergency navigation with a sextant and got a reply saying that although they liked it, they couldn't publish anything which might involve looking at the sun owing to Health and Safety regulations. What happens when the fat controllers switch off the satellites? Surely, this has got to be a wind up.

 

[Mirelle]

Who is winding up whom?

PBO have published reams of navigation-with-sextant stuff over the past three decades.

Are you pulling our collective legs?

Or did you say something about not using the shades, for some reason?

 

[duncan]

well at least you have got a response from them after the concerns you have already shared with us.

 

[TripleX]

Yes, I took some helpful advice from a forum member and bypassed the senior editor. The proposed article was not a leg pull, nor were safety shades ignored, but I am a bit confused by the reference to Health and Safety legislation.

 

[lille_bee]

That'll be the same Health & Safety executive that made me acquire a statutory "First-aid kit", half the size of a shoebox, for use in my rather large community pharmacy where I stock seven shelves full of dressings various for dispensing on prescriptions...!

 

[Avocet]

I was much amused to hear on the radio the other day that during a meeting of Health & Safety officials in Manchester recently, the floor of the room they were meeting in collapsed!

Oh how we laughed!

 

[ShipsWoofy]

lol, that is priceless!

 

[bobgosling]

Great ... now wait and see how it takes before meetings in rooms with floors are banned.

 

[TripleX]

..or sailing on water which increases the possible risk of one drowning

 

[colvic]

Afraid Not!! Just a further example of how stupid this country has become. No longer expected to be able to think for ourselves, the sad fact is that the majority cannot think for themselves any longer..needing to be told what to do all the time...road signs are a classic example.

No wonder there so many posts from people wanting to sail away.....

 

[reginaldon]

That,s why after every terrible debacle committed by Social Services, there is a big enquiry to decide how they have fallen down - it is obvious they have not done their job and should be sacked! I suppose part of the curriculum for their qualifications is a course in abandoning old-fashioned common sense.

 

[dulcibella]

Not only irrelevant to the thread issue of excessive Health & Safety obsession, but more than a touch unfair on Social Services, who do tough work on poor pay and most of whose "failures" result from staff overload and fast staff turnover. We can read this sort of prejudice in the gutter press without having to find it on a sailing chatroom.

 

[claymore]

Its a forum - not a chatroom

 

[Avocet]

discuss....

 

[reginaldon]

I suppose it is a function of the gutterpress to point out shortcomings - if so thank goodness we have it.

 

[Danny]

So we're back on thread at last! /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

" .... might involve looking at the Sun ..."

 

[angelsson]

I was recently assured that the H & S are now one of the largest employers, certainly larger than Tescos for example, imagine the big hole where our tax £'s are disappearing into, and one in every town!!!
France has no parallel government department concerning H & S.