A surprisingly good day


bogwitch
A surprisingly good day
September 19th, 2012: I actually managed to get out of the office today to go up to London with a small group for a course.

I can't say I know much more now about DSE assessment than I knew before, but the course was a complete hoot! Not bad for a free course (we speculated that it might be a front for slavers - although they would have been sorely disappointed by a bunch of middle-aged women and one token bloke).

The only problem is now I have to assess 200 workstations...
Tags: life's mundane realities, my boring life

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2012-09-20 12:23 am (UTC)

I'd be excited, too, if I got to get out of the office for a change. Your course sounds like "ergonomic assessments" that we have at work. We (the workers) can request them from our Health & Safety group whenever we like.

I'd be especially excited, if work sent me to London (but that's really not likely to happen ;) !!!

bogwitch

2012-09-20 07:37 am (UTC)

Yeah, it's exactly that sort of thing. We are having a refurbishment at the moment and we will be getting new chairs etc, so we need to get it right. We have to do them by law, though we've been a bit slack. We are a construction company (we built the Olympic stadium and a few more high profile British buildings, including a great deal of Edinburgh) and office safety has been way down our list of priorities safety-wise.

bogwitch

2012-09-20 11:54 am (UTC)

I forgot to reply to the second bit.

I am very lucky that London is so close for the company to send me to, although they have sent me to Birmingham (though sadly not Alabama). It's terrible really, I have one of the world's major cities half an hour away and these days I still only manage to get down there once or twice a year.

llywela13

2012-09-20 05:45 am (UTC)

Ah, fun. I help process DSE assessments in work - it's a nightmare getting people to complete them! Best of luck...

bogwitch

2012-09-20 07:20 am (UTC)

Well, if they don't, they'll have the three of us decend on them! There will be no hiding!

DSE is such a low priority for us - our main work can (and unfortunately does) kill people, we tend to concentrate on that - not that we shouldn't be doing assessments, it just we never seem to have the time.