Stewarts Office Plants

We supply many businesses across the South, from Sussex and Surrey, through Hampshire and Dorset to Wiltshire and Somerset. For more information about the services we offer visit our home page, or contact us here. In this blog you'll find news, interesting snippets, stories and pictures of our staff's adventures out on the road.

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

It's health and safety gone mad!

This is not, I hasten to add, in one of our maintenance contracts. For a start we very rarely use Cycad palms, and if we did they'd look healthier than this. Also the soil would be topped up a lot nearer the rim in a Stewarts contract.

Anyway, bitchiness out of the way, this is a picture of a planter I stumbled upon on a forum the other day in a discussion about OTT safety warning signs. The 'sharp plant' bit is understandable (Cycads are!) but the 'do not eat' bit surely goes without saying.

I posted it here as I thought it was an honourable sequel to my famous plant labelled "plant" post last year.

Safety signs like this are all jolly good fun, but in my experience what happens in one contract invariably appears elsewhere. The relatively recent fashion - spreading out from energy and utility companies' premises - is to mandate the holding of the handrail when travelling up and down stairs. This is not ideal when your job involves habitually carrying two watering cans.

Solution? My staff just use the lift. Purely for safety reasons, not laziness, obviously.

Jonathan