Hotel Ready or Not? by R. vanProoyen & R. vanProoyen

Author:R. vanProoyen & R. vanProoyen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 2017-09-05T16:00:00+00:00

15—OSH by GOSH

Occupational Safety & Health

Gosh, government’s in everything. Why? Because today’s world has become so large and confusing that families don’t all have caring Moms to nag them to wash behind their ears and stop them from jumping off the garage roof holding a rain umbrella like a parachute. So, kids automatically grow up to be business owners and machine operators with little learned foresight. Did I say machine? Yes, I’ve been told that great grandma referred to the family car as a Machine. She would say: “Take the Machine to the market today”.—and I would add, “But remember that the machine does not think. It obeys you and your mistakes”. A kitchen machine will cut off your fingers without being asked— if you let it. It doesn’t know any better; you guided it, right?

Again, we have Occupational Safety and Health laws for employers to protect sleepy, drunk, hung-over, ignorant, arrogant or illiterate employees. However, OSH doesn’t have hotel- specific regulations as such. Some OSH bodies do have some regulations for General Industry that cover construction and farming industries. For example, OSH regulations may apply to hotel work areas being free from debris and kept clean and dry. But that’s it. There is a gap between hotel employee’s safe conduct and hotel guest’s safe conduct. Watch out. We’ll cover guest safety just ahead.

The main purpose of Occupational Safety and Health laws is to coax employers into protecting their employees from injuries, health dangers and risky work practices.

When OSH laws first came out years ago, farmers would laugh at the silly rules warning them not to step into cow manure when climbing over a fence because cow patties were slippery and could cause the farmers to fall and hurt themselves. Of course these new safety rules generated an irritating contempt for the government itself because now, if there were no law warning, say, a workman to not stand on the top step of a ladder, the ladder manufacturer could be sued for negligence in not warning a human being (If he could read) to take no risky moves on a ladder; thereby preventing a fall and hurting himself. Builders in some jurisdictions could be sued for not using a galvanized nail on a porch rail which might rust through and make the porch railing loose decades later.

The bureaucrats went crazy trying to codify every human activity into building and safety and fire and electrical codes so the average dumb human would not kill himself. — You’re wondering how the house builders of that day got around putting railings around their one or two step garden porch? — They had to lobby governmental bodies to agree to building codes that did not require a railing on porches under two steps in height above the ground level; a distance of about 16 inches (406.4 millimetres)— no higher than falling out of bed. (Implying that we don’t need government permission to fall out of bed.) Problem solved, but this common sense solution encouraged

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