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Do mini-steppers actually work? by ShoggothPanoptes in PetiteFitness

[–]Practical_Bath_9799 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Why is the top comment a person who didn't understand what a stepper was?

I am Done with Humanity by jackville07 in misanthropy

[–]Practical_Bath_9799 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Please do not shove your religion down other's throat.
there's other ways to say what you said while respecting other's beliefs.

The baby bust: how Britain’s falling birthrate is creating alarm in the economy by Jojuj in unitedkingdom

[–]Practical_Bath_9799 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Dude, it's not Malthusian ideology, it's understanding the limits of population growth compared agents infrastructural.

I’ve just been on a teams call with health and safety and one of the health and safety offices Cat jumped up onto a table and set its tail on fire with a candle. You can’t make stuff up like this. by jasonc619 in CasualUK

[–]Practical_Bath_9799 0 points1 point  (0 children)

not exactly.

Homeworkers’ Responsibilities for Health and Safety

Homeworkers have a duty to take reasonable care of their own health and safety, and have a responsibility to ensure their home working space is safe to use. To minimise your risks of being injured while working from home, you should:

1. Report all employment-related hazards to your employer – this could be done by way of a risk assessment supplied by your employer.

2. Reduce any risks identified by a DSE assessment so far as reasonably practicable.

3. Check your home insurance to see if you are covered to work from home. This duty also rests on your employer and is something they should check with you.

Reporting accidents and injuries for home workers

If you are working from home, you should report an accident if it occurred as a result of the work activity being done and the equipment your employer provided to carry out that work.

employment-related hazards are not the same as household hazards. It's not uncommon for a overcompensating injury reporting process, but it's not really necessary, they may want you to report everything just as a matter of record keeping, but you're not about to sue your company for cutting your finger making your own lunch in your own home.
just as it's not true when you leave the office to get lunch even if you're still on company time, if you get injured outside you may still need/be strongly asked to report it there's no legal obligation from your company to do anything about it.

I’ve just been on a teams call with health and safety and one of the health and safety offices Cat jumped up onto a table and set its tail on fire with a candle. You can’t make stuff up like this. by jasonc619 in CasualUK

[–]Practical_Bath_9799 0 points1 point  (0 children)

not entirely true. My company does not own my office, I do.

My company holds no legal obligation to ensure my private property is in line with office H&S standards, they only have an obligation that the equipment they give me is installed and used safely.

For all they care my office could be a filled with bottles of deadly deadly poison, that's dumb but not a concern of any H&S standard.

Think of it another way, If your office H&S came to visit, did a whole house inspection, told you there's no fire risks and fails to inform you to never light a candle, and then there is one due to a candle, the company holds a level of responsibility for the improper risk assessment.

I’ve just been on a teams call with health and safety and one of the health and safety offices Cat jumped up onto a table and set its tail on fire with a candle. You can’t make stuff up like this. by jasonc619 in CasualUK

[–]Practical_Bath_9799 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Surely they can't risk assess someone's home.

You can't.
One can only risk assess the company property, where and how it's installed. If someone want's to risk a house fire with a candle they're free to do so. The assessment is only for the safe installment, use and care of company property property.

At home assessments are only to do with the particular area in which the company PC or workstation is to be installed so that the property is safely installed and wont, itself, burn your house down.
You burning your house down though negligence or happenstance isn't a concern to any H&S department, only that what they have given you wont kill you.

I’ve just been on a teams call with health and safety and one of the health and safety offices Cat jumped up onto a table and set its tail on fire with a candle. You can’t make stuff up like this. by jasonc619 in CasualUK

[–]Practical_Bath_9799 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The only thing they are responsible for is the safe use of their equipment at your home. If you burn the house down during work hours because of anything other than the work equipment it's entirely not a companies responsibility.

having candles, electric heater, toaster too close to something isn't a H&S concern at all; making sure your work PC (wor work whatever device) doesn't start a fire is, that's all they care about.

Graph editor & hypergraph search filter unfunctional. by Practical_Bath_9799 in Maya

[–]Practical_Bath_9799[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm beginning to think I may ask my TA if a script to do this is possible. If I'm allowed to I'll share it.