Occupational Health and Saftey, although I believe in heath and safety at work OHS has strangled the workplace.
One only has to look at the overkill on a small set of steps, middle rail, painted lines/signs/side ramp and all this on a set of 12 steps when there is a ramp at another entry.
My sis in law is a nurse and she said the rules are crippling and dangerous because a nurse can't assist a patient without another 1 or 2 people assisting.
Roads and fences, it's everywhere you look, total overkill by councils and I won't even go into the rule book, a separate rules for every industry, and how long they are, infiltrating into every activity and even pastimes.
OHS was used by the unions to re enter the workplace, to regain their stranglehold in the workplace, when Howard broke the stranglehold of the unions.
Workers compensation was adequate historically and let's face it, their employees safety is uppermost in their priorities and a streamlined workplace is a productive workplace.
Reform and streamlining is desperately needed in the workplaces of Australia and it's needed now but will anybody take on the bully boy unions? will they get all emotive and accuse PM Abbott of trying to kill workers?? probably, but I don't think anybody has the guts to reform OHS.
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