Health And Safety For Children

The culture of compensation is still good and it seems we need training in health and safety has to sneeze those days. In fact, I bet that somewhere in this crazy world, someone has managed a claim of a higher authority, after a site was not thoroughly cleaned, covering a sneeze and causing a sudden cervical whip.

The need for safety and health training to cover every eventuality has put enormous pressure on companies and authorities and makes our life much less pleasant. The companies are afraid to get sued for not implementing the health and safety training for the characteristics of the workplace that would otherwise have been expected to be placed on common sense. Receive thousands of pounds in compensation because your contract does not specify that you should not balance a chair on a chair on a table and then try to stand on a suit to change a light bulb is simply absurd.

These difficulties have reached as far down the scale to be considered a problem even in the classroom - and not by teachers but by students. Children have accidents. They have a clear lack of fear and push the boundaries constantly working on their own limitations. So how come, then, was 2 million pounds paid out in compensation in one year for students?

Claims developed to be equivalent to one per day and were of nature that would normally have been put down to accidents in general, the accidents of life that we must grow accustomed to deal with instead of seek to blame someone else or not to take responsibility for ourselves. Yet in this world of money entering, everyone is looking for a first opportunity to make money fast and claims are now the way forward.

Manchester City Council recently paid £ 5,000 for a pupil who slipped on leaves in the yard. Well, excuse me, but playing in the leaves was a childhood favorite past time of many children, including me, and we never need the health and safety training to take part, slips and bumps were all part of the fun!

Another of these games to children who have been around since time immemorial is "tag". However, a child has been assigned to Rotherham over 21,000 pounds for a broken ankle that occurred during a match. Certainly, a broken ankle and will involve very little free time, but what is the alternative and how does it justify that kind of money?

A similar amount was given to a young person with no health and safety training on how to use a climbing wall before falling. No, there was no major head trauma, paralysis, just bumps and scrapes of childhood habit.

How can this be teaching a child to become a responsible adult to assume responsibility for their own actions, learn that life has its ups and downs, he will have his guitar and his pain, and yes, it will still continue? Quite simply it will not teach them and there are parents who prefer to see the education system has lost money for ridiculous claims on education of our children herself.

Before much longer, these children end up staying inside, wrapped in cotton wool and a period of extensive health and safety training for life rather than being outside in the fresh air fun.