Health & Bl**dy Safety...

Captaincubbio2009

I know this stupid Health and Safety business it's all a load of crap the bin men are too lazy too empty to empty them

starrystarry

A couple of years ago our binmen put a sticker on mine. Said they wouldn't empty it because the lid was raised by 2 inches. Health and safety risk apparently.

I rang the council but nobody could elaborate on what the actual risk to the binmen was. They agreed to come back and empty it the next day as long as I took the top bag out. So they had to send the bin truck plus the binmen all the way back (and I live on the outskirts of the borough) just to collect one bin.

Efficient? Don't think so. No wonder my council tax is so much.

LemonGrove

My binmen have just refused to take the whole street's new recycle bins our council has dished out to everyone, because the lids were open on every one. Thing is they made them badly and the lids don't shut even when empty, still, it's our problem it seems.

elliebellie

It would seem round our way that the bin men don't give a thought about anyones H&S, except their own!

One lovely morning, I happened to be watching out of the window, as I've had some problems with my nice clean wheelie bin being nicked by the neighbours - different story, but anyway... saw the bin men pushing a bin towards the lorry, a small carrier bag fell out of the top of the bin, he carried on - having not picked the bag up - bin was emptied and rolled back to the kerb.

On his way back to the lorry, which has moved about 10 yds down the road, he picks up the dropped bag and instead of carrying it to the lorry and placing it in, he stands back and flings it in the vague direction of the lorry (how on earth he could miss it I have no idea???!), bag misses, hits the road and glass shatters all over the road (this was before we had any glass recycling facilities – before anyone says anything:p).

At this point, I was expecting mr bin man to clean up the mess he had just left all over the place, but oh no, he quite calmly walked on, ignored the mess and carried on wheeling bins back and forth.

I called the council to complain and was told the team that deal with tidying up after the bin run - first time I had ever heard of such a team - were in our area and would be there later that morning to sort it out.

When asked why they hadn’t cleaned it up themselves, I was told........yes you guessed it, good old Health and Safety - they can’t do it in case they injure themselves!! funny really, as I managed to get most of it off the road and into my bin, without injuring myself - perhaps I have magical powers:cool:


Drives me absolutely potty, whatever happened to common sense?????

here endeth the vent.....

DCFC79

costapkt wrote: »

In the good old days they would have to lift the bin onto their shoulder to empty it. AND they would collect it from the back of property and also return it.
Load of wimps nowadays.

yes but these days they bin men have more bins to empty and dont they have targets to stick to

tandraig

er - since we had all this recycling business - my street has been littered with stuff the binmen wont take! they even had the cheek to put into my emptied recycling bin stuff they didnt want to take! i was upstairs and watched out of bedroom window with disbelief! my street looked like a rubbish tip! complained to council and got fobbed off. be warned council - on next bin day - I will be armed with video camera! try to fob me off then!

costapkt

DCFC79 wrote: »

yes but these days they bin men have more bins to empty and dont they have targets to stick to

Thought the target was to empty the bin in the truck.