Posters

I’ve written before about the office’s wonderful (if bizarre) Health and Safety initiatives, including the ‘caution: wet floor’ signs you can trip over and the signs on the stairs warning that there may be people on them.

Over the last few days, there’ve been a spate of new posters going up all over the place, warning about slips, falls, dangerous areas and the like. Most of them have images of x-rayed broken hands and the like.

All of these posters have been laminated, and stuck to the walls with dodgy knackered blu-tac stuff. So they fall off the walls again. Because of the subject matter, they’re all in ‘high-traffic’ areas, like the stairwells, communal areas, and the like.

I’m just waiting now for someone to slip on one of these posters and come skating down the stairs, doing themselves a nasty injury along the way. I will laugh – not at the person who’s fallen, but at the concept of the Health and Safety signs being dangerous in certain situations…