“Health and safety” lunatics:

Posted on November 18, 2011 by KG

‘An inquiry yesterday issued a damning verdict on rulebook-obsessed fire chiefs who ordered colleagues not to rescue a dying woman trapped down a mine shaft.
Lawyer Alison Hume could have survived if rank and file firefighters at the scene had been allowed to do their job and bring her out, said Sheriff Desmond Leslie.
But fire crews refused to use a winch to pull her to safety because its policy was only to use the rescue equipment to save its own staff…’

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4 Responses to “Health and safety” lunatics:

  1. Darin says:
    November 18, 2011 at 11:01

    Poor woman is dead because some limp dicked pencil biters refused to nut up and be men.F–king pathetic :sad:

    • KG says:
      November 18, 2011 at 11:21

      It sure is–why didn’t the crew simply defy the boss and do it anyway? What was he going to do, shoot ’em?
      A host of evil resides in the words “it’s more than my job’s worth”……

  2. pinkofreezone says:
    November 18, 2011 at 12:34

    If the purpose of the fire fighters equipment is only to rescue fire fighters are they going to risky situations, getting themselves into trouble, then saving each other while not touching anyone else at the scene?

    Hard to see the point of having a fire service then isn’t it? The Get Ourselves In Trouble and Save Ourselves Department…

  3. mort says:
    November 18, 2011 at 14:01

    hmm I see a very large law suit coming that clipboard murderer’s way