Unbelieveable

[Hover Fly]

I can't help thinking there's a bit of B.O. paranoia going on. If I slosh my armpits out before leaving home and ride, not HDAU, but at a fairly decent rate to work, I don't expect my 'pits to be minging rancid by the time I get in, certainly not enough to offend anyone who doesn't stick their nose in for a good snort. If anyone is offended by the slight smell of a human being going about daily life that's their problem.

 

[Aperitif]

[QUOTE 2599188, member: 1314"]The other thing is that the default weather for cycling in London, for the last couple of years anyway, has been wet with that horrible black oily dirty gunge on the roads. Even if one cycles very slowly and does not sweat, one will be wet and dirty, and one will need a decent shower at work.


If my company can afford offices in central London, they can afford to look after their staff’s well-being and health, which in turns contributes to a better motivated staff, which is good all round. There are 9 of us who cycle into work now, out of an employee base of 50, and the shower facilities have been important in those relatively high cycling numbers. There are 2 or 3 people who don’t have a shower though but they don’t live far from the office.[/quote]

Yes, look after your welfare each day, just so you are fresh to get pissed in one of your favourite pubs (most nights by all accounts), stagger into one of your eateries for a curry and a Singha or two 'for the road', spill yourself all over said road a few times before knocking on a door you reckon might recognise you. "Up the Workers" User.

You an' me 15 miles each way +. No facilities for me at all - lucky if the bog flushes in my "office".

 

[inkd]

As mentioned before, I have a shoebox locker so halfway through getting changed into company work wear just gypo shower and a flick of water over head. Good to go then.

 

[MontyVeda]

seems like a perfectly reasonable Health & Safety rule to me.
You are damaged by someones faulty electrical item or trip over someones flex trailing across the office - you will sue the company and the company will be liable.

It seems like a perfectly bonkers rule to me... like fitting lights throughout the building but not being allowed to turn them on just in case a bulb shatters and blinds someone, or not being allowed to use the hot tap just in case somebody gets scalded.

Unfortunately we are living in a time of 'where there's blame there's a claim', and as a result common sense is blighted by fear of a lawyer... nobbers, nobbers, nobbers, the lot of them.

 

[PK99]

It seems like a perfectly bonkers rule to me... like fitting lights throughout the building but not being allowed to turn them on just in case a bulb shatters and blinds someone, or not being allowed to use the hot tap just in case somebody gets scalded.

Unfortunately we are living in a time of 'where there's blame there's a claim', and as a result common sense is blighted by fear of a lawyer... nobbers, nobbers, nobbers, the lot of them.

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Not like those at all - the examples you cite are the employer's/building owners provision and responsibility. Allowing building users to bring in and use random untested items of electrical equipment and use them in uncontrolled ways is very different.

If I plug my domestic kettle in on my desk, and someone walking past trips over the flex and scalds you, and as a result you need skin grafts and are off work for 6 months - will you chase someone to compensate you for your losses and injury?

 

[MontyVeda]

your example is as daft as mine why would you want a kettle full of boiling water on your desk?

 

[PK99]

to make coffee, the stuff from the machine is crap!... and expensive

 

[MontyVeda]

it's doesn't have to be on your desk though does it?

 

[Lullabelle]

I used to cycle for 30 mins to work and had to sit around all day feeling sticky and whiffy, the only help was to sit in front of a fan to cool down. We now work closer to home so I can now walk which is great because a shower would never be provided, the factory is an old building. Providing a shower room etc.. is not a legal requirement.

 

[Andrew_P]

@User1314 is making me feel a right dirty git, I cycle 15 miles each way and ride flat out SCR stylee (sorry @User13710 ) even though it is just the clock I race against and I don't even bother with wet wipes, just a towel!

 

[400bhp]

I wonder if all those cyclists on Dutch bikes in the Netherlands have to shower the instant they get off their bikes. Too many silly commuter racers have skewed people's ideas about this stuff.

Isn't it more likely that commuters in the Netherlands live much closer to work?

 

[400bhp]

It's more likely because of a variety of reasons, but I understand the UK has one of the highest average commute distances in Europe.

It doesn't feel very plausible for a large proportion of commuters on sit-up-and-beg bikes doing relatively long distances on a commute each day.

 

[steve52]

shave head,or use the hot air dryers in the gents?

 

[TonyEnjoyD]

Most newly purchased portable light-use household type electrical equipment is deemed safe and pat testing is not required in the first year.
Under HSE guidance, a hair drier would only need testing every 3-5 years and that would realistically only be visual checking - assuming only personal use here.

As for the company policy - diddly squat to do with H&S but still probably more lie a blanket rather than a targeted policy.
Most modern office buildings will have "clean power" outlets - used for IT equipment - with anti-surge etc and "dirty-power" outlets for the likes of copiers, fridges, vending machines, vacuums etc.

We have a similar (unwritten but soon to be written) policy at work, the difference being people can use their own hair dryers, we just get the site engineer to give them a quick test.

 

[Leaway2]

[QUOTE 2607725, member: 1314"]

Then she threw one tanned leg over the other, pretending the short skirt had got shorter by accident in the process, got her lipstick stuff out.................[/quote]
Phew I am just off for a cold (company) shower