The fear of God, health and safety 1
1st Dec 2008
Hello lovely people
Do you know how easy it is to create a society and an environment that is fear-based? And do you know how easily people buy into this fear?
In the UK, health and safety regulations are a favourite tool for raising fear. The intention behind these regulations is supposedly to create a safer and healthier environment for people to work and live in.
This kind of legislation works very well in areas where employers still exploit employees and it has been used to create smoke-free buildings. We are still not protected from the odour of heavy smokers that commute, but at least their habits have been regulated and we can have “clean” meals and workplaces.
But there have been instances where these regulations were used to create situations that are beyond belief. And the scary part is that those people on the receiving end expressed their dissatisfaction about the applications of the regulations, but they did nothing to take the perpetrators of the decisions to task.
The underlying belief is that when anyone in a position of perceived authority tells you to do or not do something, you are powerless and you have to do it, whether it is complete nonsense or not. That amounts to giving away your personal power to another person and buying into the illusion of fear that is created.
For example, there was the pensioner who travelled to town by bus to buy a tin of paint so that he could decorate a wall at his house. When he returned, the bus driver would not let him onto the bus. Why? Because this brand new, tightly sealed tin of paint just might, as if by magic, fly open the moment the pensioner sets foot on the bus, and the paint may be splattered all over the slow-moving bus, and that might pose a threat to other passengers in terms of health and safety regulations. This was reported in a newspaper, but was the bus driver told that he misjudged the situation completely and made a travesty of the regulations? Did the pensioner get an apology?
I once attended a birthday party where the boisterous six-year-old birthday boy jumped onto a table and down to the floor again, and his mother warned him not to do it, “because of health and safety” – she actually said that.
To be continued
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